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Cyan Pointers is different from other Ashin releases in that each track features vocals, vocals which were not, however, the product of preconceived lyrics, or of being sung to music. The vocals on Cyan Pointers came out in a spoken stream, independent from the idea of any individual track. Words were then selected from the recordings in an intuitive way. Ideas emerge from the relations of the selected words, but also the meanings of the words, free of context, lose some of their precision as they gain greater ambiguity and interpretive potential. They were then placed into sparse musical frameworks, and the tracks grew up from there.
This process, in part “automatic,” seems to have allowed for the emergence of topics with dream-like referents, or subconscious associations, which generally find themselves in fitting and supportive musical beds.

For its part, the music wavers between minimal pop dance, crude electronica, blunt beats, and pretty, experimental washes, without lingering on any for too long.

All in all: another packed, musical tangent that is perhaps too interesting for its own good. It is comprised of twenty-eight tracks, and plays for more than an hour.