{"product_id":"emily-a-sprague-cyano-vinyl","title":"Pre-Order 02\/10\/26 - Sprague, Emily A.: Cyano (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"full\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Dyf36E-YYU?si=l5dvRuHtfFXLYi2o\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (02\/10\/26)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e, Emily A. Sprague builds an intricate world, expanding a sonic register that is both familiar and viscerally new, reflecting the synthesist and composer’s internal register with mirrors to alternate realms. \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e was conjured through ideas of an imagined planet whose inhabitants are rebuilding forbidden capacities for expressivity and emotional connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn arc of faithful gestures, \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e is meditation on visibility, psychic transformation, light transmission, and worlds beyond our knowing. It revels in configurations of connective possibility, where shadow and vision meet incisive truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a pivotal moment of re-engaging film photography around 2019, Sprague became transfixed by cyanotypes and the work of Anna Atkins, a botanist and photographer who documented flowers through cyano methods. The emotional tenor of Atkins’ images sparked narrative threads of a character who lived on a faraway planet, ‘Cyano’ — once like Earth — destroyed by misunderstanding and forced into a pseudo-mutuality that eschewed individuality for assimilated symbiosis. Through sensitive attempts, the Cyanic character reintroduces autonomous desire, empathic drive, and authentic expression to their world — part memory, grain, and symbol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e, Sprague seeks to find a sonic and environmental palette for what this world felt like: familiar yet utterly foreign, sounds that might seem like piano or guitar, but not quite; a continuum that bridges various relational territories — with self, other, ecology, and life in a distant world. \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e yields an egress for conjuring expressivity, a tool to bridge understanding amidst spectacular and abrading textures of an evolving world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSprague’s musical approach is marked by a deeply personal atmosphere, rooted in unearthing histories of self and other—modes of intrapersonal and interpersonal connection — and the mercuriality of these attempts. Through intimate phenomenological exploration, \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e offers subtle and striking textures that embrace vulnerability. Studio recordings and performances alike serve as a vehicle for Sprague to connect meaningfully with listeners across time, tethered in emotional coherence despite disparate geographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e, all sounds are synthesized, with no samples or acoustic instruments, and the record introduces singing into Sprague’s previously-instrumental personal, a bridging of wordless and lyrical music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith more \u003cem\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e composition in ideation, this album marks a first offering, intentionally primitive and minimal, a static-y transmission from the place very far away where it all resides. Sprague’s search for feeling, language, and sound brings new arrangement to psychic matter, life force running through a riparian garden into the sea. These tracks map feeling and place across the magnetic terrains of interior and conjured world, where knowing is mystery that breaks through to reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack vinyl version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouble Moon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGarden of Charms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarmony in Your Hands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInscription of Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLava Surrounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eListening Thru\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNight Woven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNoon Liquid Ore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRising\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSing To\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiraling to the Place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransfiguring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnder Tone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeather Melody\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Rvng Intl.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54349863747930,"sku":"RVNGNL64LP","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/emily-a-sprague-cyano.png?v=1782225841","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/emily-a-sprague-cyano-vinyl","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}