{"product_id":"emily-a-sprague-cyano","title":"Emily A. Sprague - Cyano","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"673\"\u003eOn \u003cem data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"66\"\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"88\"\u003eEmily A. Sprague\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"285\"\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e was conjured through ideas of an imagined planet whose inhabitants are rebuilding forbidden capacities for expressivity and emotional connection. An arc of faithful gestures, \u003cem data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"468\"\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e is a 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.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"1138\"\u003eIn a pivotal moment of re-engaging film photography around 2019, Sprague became transfixed by cyanotypes and the work of \u003cstrong data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"811\"\u003eAnna Atkins\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1140\" data-end=\"1758\"\u003eThrough sensitive attempts, the Cyanic character reintroduces autonomous desire, empathic drive and authentic expression to their world—part memory, grain and symbol. Through \u003cem data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1322\"\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 data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1619\"\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 data-start=\"1760\" data-end=\"2276\"\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 data-start=\"2018\" data-end=\"2025\"\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 data-start=\"2278\" data-end=\"2483\"\u003eOn \u003cem data-start=\"2281\" data-end=\"2288\"\u003eCyano\u003c\/em\u003e, all sounds are synthesized, with no samples or acoustic instruments, and the record introduces singing into Sprague’s previously instrumental practice, a bridging of wordless and lyrical music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2485\" data-end=\"2977\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eWith more \u003cem data-start=\"2495\" data-end=\"2502\"\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. 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