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Daily Drops每日唱片
A bilingual record diary — eight albums most days, drawn from classical, post-punk, ambient, City Pop, and anything else that earned its way onto the morning's list.雙語唱片日記 — 每天八張,從古典、後龐克、Ambient、City Pop 到任何當天值得寫進名單的作品。
153 volumes共 153 期
September 2026
An album made entirely in a tour van, with no guitar and no computer. 三場搶聽會的觀眾合唱聲,被錄進了成品裡
細野晴臣 — Yours Sincerely
An album named after three words on a map grid: Downhill. Almost. Starlight. 一張號稱收全鋼琴獨奏作品的碟,裡頭有兩首不是獨奏
Jem Finer & John Matthias — Almost Starlight
A cartoon rabbit with no powers, whose only ambition is your publishing contract. 專輯叫《忘 れて》,開場曲的名字是遺忘之河
西山瞳(Hitomi Nishiyama) — Layer
She cuts her instruments from the garden and runs them through a delay pedal. 一張碟裡兩次 All Blues,同一晚,同一個三重奏
Thorn Wych — Aesthesis
Saariaho signed the last double bar in January; the diagnosis came days later. 她唯一一次寫聖經文本,是在四十五年前
Anu Komsi, Marzi Nyman, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo — Kaija Saariaho: Saarikoski Songs, Vista & Three Preludes
an organ and a saxophone that never land. 為了一棵神木,這支室內樂團第一次把低音單簧管寫進編制
Arab Strap — Half-Told Tales
Five tracks, four days in one Bergen room, and the opener runs twelve minutes. 十八首曲子裡,有一首把舒伯特的魔王交給一把小提琴
Tempalay — ATOMEW
María Dueñas plays Heifetz's violin, and two of Heifetz's own arrangements. 九首歌二十九分鐘,正中間那首沒有詞
徳澤青弦 & 林正樹 — B
Late Liszt kept writing pieces that refuse to settle on a key. 這張唱片的最後半分鐘,是別人的聲音
Henry Threadgill Zooid — Cut You Where You Was
August 2026
Allah-Las went diving with Jacques Cousteau and surfaced with an almost wordless record. 拉哥斯的中提琴手,把敬拜錄成一張氛圍唱片
Hakushi Hasegawa — Honest Feeling Album
The songs of Brahms's closest friend, sung in Romanian for the first time on record. 整張專輯的合成器,是他自己焊出來的
Alabama Shakes — I Must Be Dreaming
A piano trio record that sneaks in Hammond B3, marimba and Bàtá drums. 開場在一月等待,收尾在十二月做夢
Floating Points — Mere Mortals
Five historical pipe organs across three countries, and two hours of it. 六段〈心情〉,最後一段叫〈攻擊〉,只有五十七秒
Sarah Davachi — The Will of Tongues
Seventy minutes of choral writing, and the only instrument in the room is a marimba. 他用巫娜借他的那張古琴,寫完了整張專輯
Linda May Han Oh & Melissa Aldana — Beneath Lifted Skies
A trio named itself after the number of years it had spent playing together. 一支樂團自己開的廠牌,第十九號發行是威爾第安魂曲,而且不出實體
moonriders — e.d morrison
A choir in Lewisham sings Langston Hughes, John Donne and a Scots lullaby in one sitting. 愛荷華的民謠唱片,弦樂是一位法國香頌歌手在蒙特勒伊錄好寄來的
Frances Chang — been thinking bout confession
A phone rang in the middle of a concert, and the composer wrote variations on it. 他把合成器牆拆了改彈吉他,第七張才想通這件事
Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan & Thomas Strønen — Windflower
Elgar and Barbirolli took the knighthood; Britten held out for a peerage. 〈我愛的人〉的英文標題叫 Stranger,一首都對不上
Astrig Siranossian, Nathanaël Gouin, London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth — Sir!
The last track is an old take, slowed down and filed as a bonus. 1873 年的原稿裡有兩處近乎照抄華格納,後來他自己刪掉了
Julia Holter — Materia
Three days at April Base, and the man who owns the studio played the banjo. 她替尼爾森抄譜,然後自己寫了一首交響曲
Lambchop — Punching the Clown
Intakt was founded in 1986; this tape was made that February and shelved until now. 那年她剛從紐約待完半年回來,整晚彈的是 Monk、Ornette 和 Ellington
Irène Schweizer — Prelude to a Kiss and More (Live)
He learned Ableton at a charity for people just out of prison, then stayed on to teach it. 坂本慎太郎替他寫了一首詞,Bid 寫了另一首,兩人頭一回擠進同一張碟
Cornelius — Refractions
He taught himself cello and harp, then let a borrowed voice do the singing. 專輯裡那個唱歌的人不是他,而且被剪成了碎片
Melaina Kol — Okay that's a great idea because if I do that then
The poems Schubert declined to set are spoken aloud here. 琴聲太小,人聲只好自己站到前面來
Georg Nigl & Alexander Gergelyfi — Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
A Seoul band's debut arrives disguised as a greatest-hits compilation. 她在 Elliott Smith 參與創建的錄音室,把全部人聲重錄了一遍
Sailor Honeymoon — The Worst of Sailor Honeymoon
The title track appears twice; the second take lasts forty-five seconds. 三個今年三月才畢業的人,把節拍器扔了
Grace Cummings — Bloodhorse!
The producer every band hires wrote his own album beside a chemo drip 十八個月,一間堪薩斯民宅自創的聲牆土法
L'Rain — fata morgana
Malaysia's first orchestra, pressed in a few dozen copies, finally goes public 他用兩臺卡帶機的回授,替資本主義送行
中島基裕 (Motohiro Nakashima) — Sea of Thought
A discontinued Casio toy keyboard is asked to speak for the dead. 日本最忙的鼓手,這一整張沒碰鼓
石若駿 & 角銅真実 (Shun Ishiwaka & Manami Kakudo) — Songbook7
John Carpenter dreamed of catacombs under a cathedral, then scored the dream. 散場搬器材的時候,他朝薩克斯手喊了一句:要不要組個團?
テニスコーツ (Tenniscoats) with Tape — Minat Soul
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation, rebuilt by a string quartet with a Jlin commission. 她在副歌裡問:如果我不再工作,我是誰?
PUBLIQuartet — Rhythm Nation
A ninety-year-old pianist ends his recording career without leaving his house. 兩支同款薩克斯風,聽起來時而零人,時而五個人。
maya ongaku — Nothing Space Music
A 1952 Finnish film about a woman who turns into a reindeer, scored at last for a full orchestra. 馮·提爾那部《Breaking the Waves》變成歌劇,等了整整十年才等到第一版錄音。
Margaret Glaspy — I Am Both
A saxophonist turns 102, and the loosest record of his year exists only because someone else canceled a festival slot. 他在木板封窗的基輔博物館裡彈西爾維斯特羅夫,有幾場音樂會被空襲警報切成兩半。
The Mountain Goats — Days
A 1912 violin concerto whose orchestral parts vanished at sea, rewritten from memory in time for the premiere. 睽違三十四年,這支威爾斯樂團回來了,主唱還是當年那一個。
矢野顕子 (Akiko Yano) — 生きものたちへ
A spiritual-ambient artist made a bossa nova record she swears she'll never play live. 睽違七年,小袋成彬找回 5lack,新專輯先只在澀谷那一夜的現場上開賣。
Patrick Belaga — Solar Calf
A Scottish jangle band broke a ten-year silence — and named a song after a 1980s home computer. 英國八人合唱團找來瑞典理髮廳和聲冠軍,把教堂和理髮廳擺進同一張唱片。
Michael Tilson Thomas / Verbier Festival Orchestra — Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Two men, one near-love that went nowhere — thirteen songs split into a desire side and a shame side. 舒曼最後一部聲樂套曲,唱的是上斷頭臺前的蘇格蘭女王瑪麗。
Picture — Uuuuuuuu
A whole people went extinct; the last speaker of their language was a parrot. 有一種雙旋翼直升機,是唯一能自己撞上自己的——她拿它當了一張唱片的名字。
Hourloupe — Last Lost Word
A veteran of China's harshest noise scene put the noise down and gave an hour to a room of gongs. 英國一支團沉寂十年後回來,兩個女聲,一個負責旋律,一個負責尖叫。
徐程 Xu Cheng — Chimes Within
July 2026
Ed Askew kept recording in his apartment until he died at 84; his admirers finished the record. 卡拉漢、範艾登、威廉泰勒替一個剛走的 folk 老人,把他生前錄下的 demo 補完成一張唱片。
Ed Askew — The Final Painting(Pick)
Nu Jazz named the album Un Jazz, then spent a dark room earning both. 六個紐約地下樂手把幾種活的音樂關進暗房,關燈,讓它們自己長成一隻怪物。
Nu Jazz — Un Jazz(Pick)
Oliver Wood and three friends sat in a circle, rolled a four-track, and stopped when the tape ran out. 阿萊西家的男人都叫約瑟夫——這回小號手把弟弟那把長號帶進了 ECM。
橋本絵莉子(Eriko Hashimoto) — OVER LIFE(Pick)
The Case Oats guitarist steps out front — and brings Spencer Tweedy behind the kit for two of the songs. 芝加哥的同一週:一張在冰湖邊獨處寫成,兩張在地下室對著死亡尖叫
Max Subar — Anything Could Be(Pick)
A trumpeter sat in on a house groove, quoted Coltrane, and texted the drummer that night — we have to record this. 一張專輯名長到得喘口氣,七首歌把英國民謠揉成一場胡鬧
Nicholas Payton & Butcher Brown — A Supreme Blue
A Rio soap actress named her debut after a caged Brazilian songbird. 一把一六四一年的中提琴,被搬出來拉了幾首今年才寫的曲子。
Curió Curió — Curió Curió
On New Year's Day, Kate Carr traced London by altitude—from twenty metres under the Thames to the top of the Shard. 一卷擱了十六年的孟買母帶,補完成了給一位塔布拉大師的告別。
Kate Carr — Vertical London (New Year's Day)
At seventy-seven, Uchida lets the hall keep the mistakes in Beethoven's last three sonatas. 五年,換來十六分鐘:Nick Hakim把一段最壞的日子壓成十二首歌。
Mitsuko Uchida (內田光子) — Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 109, 110 & 111 (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025)
He played his own binaural recordings back into a gallery and taped the walls answering. 一九七一年沒用上的詩稿,今年終於錄成了歌。
primitive percussion youth orchestra — gabble ratchets
Thirty-two voices, placed less by counterpoint than by the geometry of a Salzburg cathedral 奧菲莉亞這次用客語唱起了嘻哈
淺堤 (Shallow Levée) — 沈默的鉅作
Cinder Well put down the fiddle and picked up an e-bow instead. 十三年才交出第二張,封面印的是他家貓的屁股。
Cinder Well — A Blooming Body
Four Hungarian villagers, recorded on wax cylinders a century ago, get performer credits in 2026. 竇唯二〇二四年錄完,擱到今年才做,兩首曲子唱的都是別人的古文。
blah bruh — BLUE EVENING
The autumn after Carla Bley died, Steve Swallow made a record that keeps 1957's hours. 他五歲在留聲機上聽見的三首舞曲,八十年後編進了自己的蕭邦。
Steve Swallow — Winter Songs
Lenny Kaye spent fifty years as a sideman; at seventy-nine he finally counts himself in. 在北卡的三天,兩個人把陽光錄成了一張唱片
Darryl Jenifer — The Weather Channel
Alan McGee heard the tapes and told Tricky to put his name back on. 91歲的Terry Riley,交出的總譜是一本塗鴉簿
Tricky — Different When It's Silent
Former Teenage Fanclub bassist Gerard Love resurfaces on a Philadelphia power-pop record. Gnod 二十歲生日,端出的是 2019 年的一捲卡帶
Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra — Tsuioku / 追憶
GONTITI's new album reads like a flight log: takeoff, a Fresno coffee shop, a farewell. 細野晴臣的孫子,把爺爺的 YMO 接進自己的歌裡
GONTITI — Two Old Pilots After Twilight
Twenty years estranged from the family farm, she bought it back and wrote an album there. 被納粹掃出舞臺的歌劇,法蘭克福錄了回來
Eartheater — Heavenly Body: If I'm The Bottle You're The Message
Nine cities, nine duet partners, and a trumpet that asks for quiet. 一九七六年的橫濱中華街,坂本龍一還只是伴奏樂手
FATHERS — FATHERS
An opera won the 1951 Pulitzer; its first recording comes from the orchestra next door. 十八個人的大樂團,名字取自一座德國防空洞
Douglas Moore — Giants in the Earth
A doom band breaks a twenty-year silence to cut five songs in a deconsecrated church, and calls the whole thing love. 一部十三分鐘的交響曲,其實只是一個男人,把主禱文唸了一遍。
Warning — Rituals of Shame
A band gone fifteen years returns with a suite built to keep falling and never land. 幾個做死亡金屬的人,私下把 Steely Dan 的和絃彈成了數學搖滾。
MAQUINA. — BODY TRANSMISSION
A field recordist tours Europe for a year, insisting the entire time that she is strictly an amateur. 一張做了四十年、作者始終不肯宣佈完工的迪斯可唱片。
Hannah Marks — Feed the Fire
Four musicians build an hour of slow cinema around a single dance scene from a 1965 Polish film. 海與天相接的地方有一場戰爭,四個人把它錄成了慢速電影。
Camilla Pisani — Konstellationen
Before recordings, taking an opera home meant having the town band play it. 一把吉他,把哥倫比亞高山的霧氣織進爵士。
Freyja Garbett — Sowden House
Squid's guitarist spends twenty minutes driving past some very muscular cows 樂團自己都沒留底的錄音帶,四十一年後上了黑膠
Anton Pearson — Driving Through Belgium
Five voices went missing for five centuries; a scholar just wrote them back in 被僱來哭的人,哭著哭著竟成了真
Daniel Gilchrist & Selene Consort — Earthly Solace: Eton Choirbook Reconstructions II
After sixteen years and thirty-nine concertos, the bassoon finally gets its night 布偶秀主題曲的前世,藏在威瑪的夜總會裡
Stephen Hough — Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards
The penguin chorus on Ichiko Aoba's new single is Aoba herself, doing the voice 青葉市子憋了一整年,先還你一隻企鵝
mary in the junkyard — Role Model Hermit
Seven records that live on a border — between the soloist and the band, the living and the missing 這週最好的幾張都住在交界處——獨奏與合奏、活著與失去,沒一張急著把線畫清楚
Columbia Icefield — A Silence Opens
Six records that each find a face in the noise — from a Colorado meadow to a metal archive 六張唱片,沒一張憑空寫成——形狀都是從原料裡撿出來的
Miles Okazaki — Boomtown [Pick of the Day]
June 2026
Four records on the day the industry forgets — and one of them never met a computer 產業休市的星期二,四張碟,其中一張從頭到尾沒碰過電腦
BCMC — Stash
What a vault keeps, and what a band finally says out loud 沉默九年後,他們用兩種語言喊同一句
Downtown Boys — Public Luxury
Six records that all seem to be writing home from somewhere else 今天的六張,都像從別處寄回的明信片
Chanel Beads — Your Day Will Come
Five records that would rather hum than shout — and one opera that finally lets Marilyn speak. 週五的大碟散場後,留下五張肯把音量收住的唱片。
Beth Orton — The Ground Above
A Zimbabwean star and a Bristol post-punk crew, shelved for thirty-five years and only now allowed to speak. 剛把話說清楚,他們轉頭就讓你聽他們怎麼把話想出來。
SML — Spontaneous Music Live
A teenager's fright at a 1960 horror film, returned decades later as a score 替天后寫歌之前,他在飯店大廳一週彈六晚
Cécile McLorin Salvant, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley — With Every Breath I Take
The week Schubert dared the devil to play it 他說這只是一廂情願,然後把六首全錄了下來
Lukas Geniušas / Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen / Modestas Pitrėnas — Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy · Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy
Janus Rasmussen spent a decade behind other people's records. This week he finally sings. 第一次有人用古樂器演蘇利文——維多利亞客廳的音色,回來了。
Wild Up (Christopher Rountree) — Julius Eastman, Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla
An 84-year-old folk poet finished his last songs, then the fire came 皮亞佐拉的探戈,今天沒有班多紐手——一把小提琴頂了上去
Denis Kozhukhin — Haydn: Sonatas
Everything today is secondhand — a vault tape, a thirty-five-year-old return, two scores in translation, a fistful of standards — and most of it is the better for it 今天沒有一張是憑空來的——出土的母帶、隔了三十五年的重錄、轉寫過的舊譜、唱了千遍的老歌
Sun Ra & His Arkestra — East Two + 7
A drum machine pulls up a chair beside a jazz quartet, a techno pianist sits down with Bach, and a string trio remembers when conversation was an art 808 鼓機坐進爵士隊,巴赫交給一個 techno 琴手,一支弦樂三重奏想起了交談還是一門手藝的年代
Daniel Lanois — Belladonna Nocturne
A record fifteen years in a drawer, a band that confiscated its own fuzz pedals, and an octogenarian who sat down with strangers half his age 八張新碟沒一張準時到場:有人借唐詩當標題,有人把看家本領鎖進櫃子,有人八十多歲還在學新把戲
Styrofoam Winos — Any River
Five records made indoors this week — and the rooms turn out to be occupied. 沒有大碟的週四,五張碟全往屋裡走——推開門,裡頭都不只一個人。
Micah Thomas — Lucid
Five records for the dead zone between Fridays — each one a different kind of signal. 兩個週五之間的真空帶,五張碟卻不約而同在找同一種訊號。
Sparklmami — in this body
A Tuesday split between records that dream and one that chases the light through the leaves 一半的唱片在標題裡做夢,另一半在追葉縫裡的光
Lakecia Benjamin — We Dream
Pop radio as armor — turning a childhood hiding place into a home 把童年耳機裡的流行電臺,重做成一副護甲
Zoon — Happy Thought School
A harpsichordist abandons his throne; a Tokyo veteran tunes the city's hum 大鍵琴讓出王座,東京在低頻裡甦醒
Mahan Esfahani & Britten Sinfonia — Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos
Koreans reinventing pansori as post-punk; an American folk record quoting Fauré 一張黑膠故意不排曲序,一支爵士樂團拿蘑菇當標題
Leenalchi(이날치) — Here Comes That Crow
Akinmusire reaches for an effects pedal for the first time, and half of New Music Friday is spent refusing to sound like itself 小號第一次踩下效果器,這一天的銅管都不想好好當銅管
Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson — Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings
A 26-year-old's first record and a 1977 ECM session, somehow sharing the same Friday 墨西哥城那支樂團,把葬禮的鼓點錄成了這週最安靜的一張
Diles que no me maten — Escrito en Agua
Nothing this week is in a hurry — one record waited ten years for its own sound. 管風琴被凍到降了半音,這一天的碟都帶著一點耐心
Kiri Ra! — Nen
The man who wrote the Wombles theme just handed the LSO a war 讓 Miles Davis 坐進文藝復興與史特拉汶斯基之間
O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra & Hugo Ticciati — milestones
Borges's fake encyclopedia, eight fuzz pedals, and Jeff Goldblum after hours 13歲組團的女孩,26歲那年自己推開錄音室的門
SLIFT — Fantasia
What happens when the Buchla finally gets an orchestra to argue with 八十歲的合成器先驅,把五十人樂團接上電
Suzanne Ciani, Metropole Orkest & Simon Dobson — CIANI/ORKEST
Three saxophonists turned up today, and not one of them wanted the saxophone 三個吹薩克斯的,今天沒一個在吹薩克斯
Zoh Amba — Eyes Full
What a quarter-century on a major buys you, apparently, is the freedom to leave it 三支美國老兵今天集體不聽話,另一頭是日本的工匠氣與一張地中海巴洛克
Modest Mouse — An Eraser and a Maze
A death-metal band hands in four synth lullabies, and means them 以死亡金屬成名的樂團,今天交出四段安睡的合成器
Death Cab for Cutie — I Built You a Tower
Beck turns up on a Brazilian record to sing Nick Drake — that kind of day 沉默三年,feeble little horse 回來就把吵與準同時調滿
feeble little horse — bitknot
What gets made in the downtime between two Fridays 最吵的一張不打招呼就到,其餘五張都關著門做完
Nathan Evans Fox — Heirloom
A Ukrainian harpsichordist reaches back four centuries for English melancholy 戰時的烏克蘭人,借四百年前英國人的憂鬱喘一口氣
Dmytro Kokoshynskyy — Music for These Troubled Times
May 2026
A Sunday with no rock to speak of — so an opera, a flute, and a Lankum man speaking in Gaelic filled the room instead 沒有搖滾的週日,歌劇、長笛和一句蓋爾語的咒替它把位子坐滿
National Symphony Orchestra / Gianandrea Noseda — Barber: Vanessa
No majors this weekend — seven small rooms on Bandcamp, and the loudest of them was recorded in 1994 週末沒有大廠坐鎮,七張全部來自 Bandcamp 的小房間——最響的那張錄於 1994 年
Thee Marloes — Di Hotel Malibu
Eight albums, eight ways back to the front door — Townsend took ten years to find his. 八張碟、八種返家——麥卡特尼說他從未真正離開過 Dungeon Lane。
Devin Townsend — The Moth (Deluxe Edition)
Thirteen years of Warp silence, broken open — and a New York drummer puts Max Roach back on the table 十三年沉默被 Warp 切開,紐約爵士桌上擱著 Max Roach 的舊課本
Boards of Canada — Inferno
Julian Lage finally puts his name on an ECM sleeve The Coral 把整張灌進一臺 1980 年代的 Tascam
Verbier Festival Orchestra & Zubin Mehta — Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
At Versailles, a Guadeloupean swordsman finally gets his appointment back—three hundred years late. 在 Versailles 的客廳,一個混血劍客等了三百年。
Le Chevalier de Saint-George — Portrait
Miles Davis turns 100, a Seoul dream lab, and Beck rolling deep on a Mexican-Colombian cumbia. Miles Davis 百年、首爾虛構的造夢實驗所、Beck 客串墨西哥-哥倫比亞迷幻 cumbia。
Miles Davis — Birth of the Cool (Blue Note Tone Poet Vinyl Edition)
Petrenko opens his Mahler with the Third; Bertucci opens hers with a sheep-bone flute 古典聽眾在皇家阿爾伯特廳聽馬勒第三,實驗聽眾聽羊骨笛在八聲道裡迴轉
Vasily Petrenko / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra — Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Latin chants over a drum machine, and five other small detours from the same Friday 今日有牧師對住鼓機唱拉丁文,其餘五張陪佢一齊行去陌生角落
Aho Ssan — The Sun Turned Black
Eight Friday releases that all, in their own way, refuse the algorithm 推開演算法的一個週五——8 張各自拒絕串流的方式
Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Fabio Luisi — Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Live)
Twenty years of B-sides, twenty-five tracks of refusal 二十年 B-sides,二十五首拒絕,外加一張遲了六年的春天日記
Andris Nelsons / Wiener Philharmoniker — Mahler: Symphony No. 5
A Wednesday lull, tugged into tide by one guitar record 一個吉他手在 Harry Smith 的另一個檔案裡找到的
Marisa Anderson — The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1
What returns after a decade of silence 比利時人沉默十年後回來了
Kreng — Wormhole
A Greek Orthodox priest hand-built a Byzantine drone record. It went to #1 on Bandcamp. 一個希臘神父,在家裡造了一張拜占庭電子專輯
π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης — Paradise Metal
A Sub Pop debut shaped like a prospectus, a Tijuana homecoming with an accordion, and the week's quieter half 一張被框成 IPO 招股書的 Sub Pop 出道作、一場帶手風琴的 Tijuana 回家、與本週剩下半邊的安靜
Telehealth — Green World Image
Eight that floated up after Friday's tide — including a Czech symphonic set that slipped under the NMF radar 週五的浪退到下午,沙灘上撿到的八張——還有一套悄悄滑進來的捷克交響全集
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet — Happy Today (feat. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson)
Fifty years after Munrow's exit, the box catches up 穆諾走後五十年,他的箱子才追上他
Immanuel Wilkins Quartet — Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 3
The Friday tide hasn't come in yet, but the Thursday flotsam is already worth picking through. 週五前夜的撿漏:從威尼斯—布拉格的Vivaldi餘波,到Glasgow出走的一張Drone
Milena Granci — To Some Place New
Barenboim's Chicago years arrive as a 37-disc box on the same Friday Kevin Morby drops his Aaron Dessner record. The week is generous, in two registers. 巴倫博伊姆把芝加哥的十五年壓成 37 張 CD,凱文·莫比把堪薩斯州的天空交給 Aaron Dessner,全部 5/15 一起到。
Jasmine Myra — Where Light Settles
What floats in after the Friday tide 週五的浪退了之後,沙灘上撿到的六張
Dumama — Towards An Expanse
The Monday after a Friday flood: noise-rock kids playing piano, and four classical records about going back to what the composer first wrote down 週一是 Friday 的剩菜——剩下的是不肯走進主流胃口的那幾盤
Friko — Something Worth Waiting For
Antonini closes a forty-year loop; a mezzo answers Heine with a phone call to 2023. Antonini 把四十年合成一個圓;mezzo 替 Heine 打了通跨世紀的電話。
Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini — Haydn2032, Vol. 19: Trauer
The Saturday after Friday: six picks from the wreckage of New Music Friday — including a Chandos finale that finally lets a forgotten Croatian composer finish the sentence Brahms started. 週六的拾遺:把 Brahms 的最後一首鋼琴四重奏,留給一位被遺忘的克羅埃西亞女作曲家來收尾。
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective — Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 3
The afterparty isn't a metaphor — Lykke Li means it. 派對都散了她才開始唱——Lykke Li 把告別寫得比派對更戲劇。
Lykke Li — The Afterparty
Seventy-six composers walk into a piano 七十六位作曲家圍著一臺鋼琴吵架
Min Kwon — America/Beautiful ⭐ 古典必選
A pianist closes a decade-long project; Greenwood returns to Rajasthan eleven years later 十年計劃終章,與一張等了十一年的續篇
Jonathan Biss / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Malin Broman — Beethoven/5 Vol. 5
A 202-year-old score finally gets its trio, and Arturo Sandoval hands the reins to his son 兩百年沒人錄的樂譜終於等到它的三重奏
Trio Bohémo — Anton Reicha: The Complete Piano Trios
The Boos return to grief, and three British classical labels stage their own May Day Boo Radleys 在喪失裡寫第九張,三家英國古典廠牌同日開花
Paul Watkins / Alessio Bax — Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello
Arcadi Volodos disappears for seven years, then returns with Schumann's music for children. Volodos 消失七年,回來彈的是寫給小孩的曲子。
Arcadi Volodos — Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Major, D. 850 / Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15
Jason Moran hired someone to break his piano into pieces. The piano fought back. Jason Moran 讓人把他的鋼琴聲撕碎了,然後跟碎片即興。
Anders Hillborg / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Christian Karlsen — Vaporised Tivoli: Orchestral and Concertante Works I
Steve Gadd was twenty-three, Tony Levin was twenty-two, and nobody had heard of either of them. Steve Gadd 二十三歲,Tony Levin 二十二歲,沒人聽過他們的名字。
Gap Mangione — Diana in the Autumn Wind
April 2026
The end of the world tastes like bubblegum and emo guitars 五月逆襲:七年、十二年、都回來了
American Football — American Football (LP4)
Tim Presley disappeared for seven years. Ty Segall handed him back his own songs. Tim Presley 失蹤七年,回來時把噪音全脫了。
Sébastien Daucé / Correspondances — Cavalli: La Calisto
Blue Note's new jazz darling arrives with the exact band she deserves—no compromises, all clarinet-adjacent metaphors barred. Blue Note 新女爵發威——樂隊不是陪襯,每個人都有話要說。
Gabrielle Cavassa — Diavola
A French opera that slept for a century, and seven others 一部沉睡了一個世紀的法國歌劇,加上 Krautrock × 阿巴拉契亞的怪物三人組
Charles Silver / Hungarian National Philharmonic / Vashegyi — La Belle au bois dormant
Sunday's Long Tail: A Britten Centenary Disc, A Singer Returning From Silence, and Six Albums That Spent the Week Below the Fold 新音樂週五的長尾八張:Britten 50 週年的女高音版本,沉默八年的重新開口,以及六張被頭條漏掉的
Julie Roset / Lawrence Foster / Monte-Carlo Philharmonic — Britten
A Miami apartment building, a seventeen-year-old violinist's 2000 archive, and a band quietly announcing it may be done 邁阿密舊公寓寫成鋼琴協奏曲;莊司紗矢香十七歲的 Paganini 二十六年後被擦亮一次
Jorge Mejia / LSO — If These Walls Could Talk
A star violist restores Franck to the instrument he always should have been writing for — and seven other records that can't quite leave home. 一把中提琴把 Franck 接了回來——本週八張裡最小、也最像一個完整句子的那張。
Timothy Ridout & Jonathan Ware — Alto Appassionato
Alice Sara Ott goes to Reykjavík to play Jóhannsson on his producer's upright. Thirty of them. Ott 去雷克雅未克,在 Jóhannsson 自己的製作人家裡彈了三十首他。
Alice Sara Ott — Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works
Järvi drops a Schubert on Wednesday. Then Friday hands you six more. 週三隻有一張 Järvi 的 Schubert。週五等著你的,是六張一起砸下來。
Paavo Järvi & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen — Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 "Little C Major"
Three classical releases slipped out under last Friday's noise. Here are the people who should have been paying attention. 上週五三張古典悄悄滑出來,沒人講。我來補。
Idith Meshulam Korman / Oxford Philharmonic / Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey — Martines: The Complete Keyboard Works
Three weeks late to a Fauré recording that should have been on everybody's desk 一張 4 月 3 日悄悄發的 Fauré 鋼琴,三週後才終於被人撿起來
Pascal Rogé — Fauré: Barcarolles & Dolly Suite
Eight records left on the shelf after the Record Store Day crush, and what they tell us about an ordinary April Friday Record Store Day 過後的溢出架上,藏著一張壓了六十三年的 Jimmy Scott
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen — Arvo Pärt: Complete Symphonies
Four years after Angelich's death, Erato finally puts out the Flagey tape. 四年前的今天,Angelich 在巴黎去世。Erato 把那張 Flagey 現場錄音壓到這個日子發。
Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Quatuor Ébène — Chausson: Poème, Op. 25 & Concert, Op. 21
Souled American waited thirty years to make another record. They did not use the time to hurry. Souled American 隔了三十年才回來。他們沒打算趕時間。
Souled American — Sanctions
McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson played together exactly twice. We just found the second tape. McCoy Tyner 和 Bobby Hutcherson 一共合作了兩次。第二次的母帶剛找到。
McCoy Tyner — The Seeker
Record Store Day turns the Back Pages of jazz history into new vinyl. Coltrane 的酒吧錄音現身,這次真的不是傳說
John Coltrane — The Tiberi Tapes: A Preview of the Mythic Recordings
A cellist who records in Welsh cabins, an unreleased Chicago legend, and a tabla player building synths in Rome 爵士樂手錄音室外面的呼吸——五十年前的 Chicago 實錄
Joe Henderson — Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase
A hair-metal virtuoso turns symphonist. A mandolin player writes her own concerto. The 1980s are still negotiating their exit. Winger 的主唱寫了一部交響曲。對,就是那個 Winger。
Kip Winger — Symphony of the Returning Light & Violin Concerto "In the Language of Flowers"
Squarepusher wrote a chamber concerto. Yes, that Squarepusher. Squarepusher 寫了室內樂,你沒看錯。
Colin Currie Group — Steve Reich: The Sextets
A pianist plays Prokofiev with obsessive devotion while experimental musicians blur the line between silence and song across three continents. 普羅柯菲耶夫到實驗電聲——七張專輯跨度之大,今年春天的品味轉盤轉得特別厲害。
Isata Kanneh-Mason — Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
WU LYF break fifteen years of silence with seven songs you can't stream anywhere. WU LYF 沉默十五年後帶回七首歌,不上任何串流平臺。
Flea — Honora