{"product_id":"4582561407345","title":"Emily A. Sprague Cyano Japan Music CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003cbr\u003e\nEmily A. Sprague, a synthesizer player and composer also known as a member of Florist, paints a new sonic map connecting distant planets and her inner world. Her new album, 'Cyano', generates all sounds using synthesizers and incorporates vocals for the first time in a substantial way. Sprague began her musical journey in her teens through early experiments with guitar and keyboards, and gained a devoted following in the early 2010s with the indie band Florist. Since 2017, she has expanded her activities to experimental music and ambient works under her own name. Initially releasing independently, she later partnered with RVNG to create solo works including 'Water Memory \/ Mount Vision' (2017 \/ 2019), 'Hill, Flower, Fog' (2020), and 'Cloud Time' (2025). Originally from upstate New York near the Catskills, where she still lives, Sprague began to approach music as a way to integrate emotions and perceive them spatially. As a child, she learned piano from her mother and later learned guitar through experimentation. Rather than theory or scales, she valued each song that she felt was particularly important, the intuitive structure of sound, the power of melody, and the intuitive gesture of sound. Eventually, she began to create soundscapes using multi-track loops and pedals, with both non-modular and modular synthesizers. The act of patching outputs and inputs became a way to symbolize mental movements and meditative states through sound. Around 2019, after revisiting film photography, Sprague became strongly drawn to cyanotype and the work of botanist\/photographer Anna Atkins, who documented plants using the cyanotype technique. The emotional atmosphere of Atkins' photographs led her to the story of a person living on the distant planet \"Cyano.\" Cyano, once similar to Earth, was destroyed by misunderstanding and placed under a pseudo-reciprocity that forced individuals to abandon their individuality and adopt an assimilated symbiosis. Cyanic, through delicate experimentation, seeks to reclaim autonomous desires, empathy-based impulses, and authentic expression in his world, using memory, particles, and symbols as clues. Through \"Cyano,\" Sprague explores an acoustic\/environmental palette that represents how this world feels. Sounds that sound like piano or guitar, but not entirely so. Sounds as a continuum that spans the relationship between self, other, ecosystems, and life in distant worlds. \"Cyano\" is both an outlet for evoking expression and a tool for connecting understanding within the magnificent, sometimes worn texture of an ever-changing world. In \"Cyano,\" experimental, formless music deconstructs the more traditional songwriting found in Florist's work. The improvisational patching and sounds born from Sprague's earliest modular synth experiments in 2016 bring visits to past eras and inner worlds, tracing streaks of light and depicting memories and desires. The opening track, \"Double Moon,\" featuring partner and collaborator V Haddad, brings Cyano's parallel world to the forefront. Sonic elements appear and disappear in a mottled wave, colored by patched gradients, frost-covered angles, and warm melodic ripples. 'Cyano' evokes a rainbow of delicate nuances, like the colors of night traversing the sky and illuminating the contours it makes possible. Each meticulously constructed track expresses a curiosity for movement, water, horizons, and timbres, transforming abstract elements into tangible moments with a stronger presence. The imaginary narrative threads of 'Cyano' took shape during Sprague and Haddad's trip to the Icelandic fjords at the winter solstice, but the album itself was completed in a month considerably later. Sprague's musical approach is characterized by a deeply personal atmosphere rooted in unearthing the histories of himself and others?that is, the nature of inner\/interpersonal connections and the transience of such endeavors. Through intimate phenomenological exploration, 'Cyano' presents a subtly yet striking texture that embraces fragility. For Sprague, both studio recordings and live performances are mediums to build meaningful connections with listeners across time, bound together by emotional consistency despite being in different places. In 'Cyano,' all sounds are generated by synthesizers; no samples or acoustic instruments are used. Furthermore, this work introduces vocals to Sprague's solo work, which has previously been primarily instrumental, attempting to bridge the gap between wordless music and music with lyrics. While further 'Cyano' song concepts are still being developed, this is the first presentation. It is a deliberately primitive and minimalist work, like a noise-filled communication arriving from a faraway place. Sprague's journey exploring emotions, language, and sound gives new context to the spiritual material, resonating like a life force flowing through a riverside garden into the sea. These songs map emotions and places within a magnetic landscape of a world created by inner life and imagination. There, knowing is a mystery, and that mystery opens a rift into reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TOKYO JAPAN CD SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607367614773,"sku":"4582561407345","price":4180.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/5966\/5973\/files\/711jLHzAjQL._AC.jpg?v=1790817104","url":"https:\/\/tokyojapancdshop.com\/products\/4582561407345","provider":"TOKYO JAPAN CD SHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}