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

Genre類型

Jazz / Post-Bop / Quartet

Label廠牌

Endectomorph Music

Format介質

CD / Digital

Released發行

2026-06-12

Marks is a bassist, and her second album has the confidence of someone who has stopped explaining herself. The title track builds the way a good argument does, patiently, the alto saxophone and Lex Korten's piano circling a small idea until it catches. Jason Moran produced, and you can hear his fingerprints in how much air the quartet is allowed — nobody rushes, nobody crowds. Scattered through the nine tunes are conversations with Geri Allen, less homage than back-and-forth, Marks answering phrases Allen might have played and then wandering somewhere Allen wouldn't have. "Mushi Mushi" is where the record loosens its collar. It is the kind of straight-ahead session that rewards the second listen more than the first, which is its own quiet form of ambition. My pick of the day. 低音提琴手的第二張，找來 Jason Moran 坐鎮監製。九首之外，你會聽見她一路在跟 Geri Allen 說話——那種把前輩的句法拆開、再用自己的重量擺回去的說話。四重奏配置乾淨，中音薩克斯風和鋼琴在標題曲〈Feed the Fire〉裡把火苗養得很有耐性，不急著燒旺。今日 Pick。

Kris Tiner & Cathlene Pineda — Sung （補記）

Genre類型

Jazz / Duo / Free Improv

Label廠牌

Orenda Records

Format介質

Vinyl / Digital

Released發行

2026-05-29

Brunhild Ferrari, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke — L'oreille Voleuse （補記 · 當代古典角落 · 非英語）

Genre類型

Musique concrète / Electroacoustic / Contemporary Classical

Label廠牌

Persistence of Sound

Format介質

Vinyl / Digital

Released發行

2026-05-22

The title means "the thieving ear," and Ferrari, an electroacoustic composer now in her eighties, treats her own memory as loot: street noise, a sudden storm, machines you can't identify, all gathered over decades and spliced into one long, humming collage. What lifts the record is its second half, where Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke take the original into a live version, tightening that low hum with electronics and flute until it feels less like a memory than a pressure. It is the closest thing to classical I have this week, and it earns the corner honestly. Ferrari has been doing this since before most ambient producers were born, and she still hears more than they do. 標題意思是「行竊的耳朵」。八十幾歲的法國電聲先驅費拉里，把幾十年間隨手錄下的聲音記憶剪成一長段拼貼——街聲、驟雨、來歷不明的機器，底下墊著一層暗嗡。B 面換石橋英子和 Jim O'Rourke 把原曲拿去現場重奏，用電子和長笛把那層暗嗡再往緊裡收。這席就當本週的當代古典。

Wanderwelle — Ghosts Beneath the Brine （補記）

Genre類型

Ambient / Drone / Field Recording

Label廠牌

Important Records

Format介質

Digital

Released發行

2026-05-26

To make the final entry in their climate trilogy, the Dutch duo Alexander Bartels and Phil van Dulm talked their way onto a North Sea shrimp trawler, where the fishermen assumed they were journalists come to write up the overfishing. They were writing something, just not that. The album's central instrument is a set of cymbals submerged in seawater: as the metal corrodes, the bowed tone thins and cracks, and over thirty-four minutes you hear an ecosystem's decline transcribed into rust. The engine drone and the gulls came home in their recorders. "Dissolving Souls" is where the conceit stops being a conceit and simply becomes sad. 荷蘭二人組的氣候三部曲收官。這回的核心樂器是泡進海水的鈸：金屬越腐蝕，用弓拉出來的聲音越脆、越薄。他們還上了北海的蝦拖網船，把機器聲和海鳥錄進去——漁民一度以為他們是來寫超捕新聞的記者。三十四分鐘，像替一片海做的一份病歷。

ai yamamoto — Seasons （在窗 · 非英語/日系）

Genre類型

Field Recording / Ambient

Label廠牌

Room40

Format介質

Digital

Released發行

2026-06-19

Four tracks, one per season — a structure so obvious it could have been a postcard. What saves it is restraint. Yamamoto, a Japanese sound artist based in Melbourne, took her cue from Masanobu Fukuoka's "do-nothing farming," and the field recordings are the expected ones: birds and rain, a lawnmower and distant fireworks, crickets, a crackling winter fire. Underneath she lays a very quiet instrumental bed, almost too quiet to notice, and it is that bed that gives each season a pulse rather than a caption. "Winter" is the one I keep returning to. 現居墨爾本的日裔聲音藝術家，靈感來自福岡正信《一根稻草的革命》裡那套「無為農法」。四軌，一季一首：春天是鳥和雨，夏天是割草機與煙火，秋天蟋蟀與風，冬天滑雪和柴火。難的是她墊在底下那層極輕的器樂，讓每個季節不只是聲音清單，而是有了體溫。

Nirosta Steel — MY SKYSCRAPER （在窗）

Genre類型

Post-Punk / Mutant Disco / Experimental

Label廠牌

ULYSSA

Format介質

2×Vinyl / Digital

Released發行

2026-06-29

Steven Hall — Nirosta Steel to his records — was a friend of Arthur Russell, and this double LP inherits Russell's least commercial habit: the refusal to ever finish anything. Its seventeen tracks span roughly forty years of tape, remixed and rebuilt, sometimes doubled up (there are two versions of "FIRST LOVE," a "Ruffian Mix" and a "Disco Moonbeam Mix," and Hall clearly couldn't choose). The disco underneath it all is real and warm, but it keeps dissolving into the sense of a man reworking the same night for half his life. For a Taipei reader there's a local hook: "BOSS TRIX (BENNY'S SONG)" is Hall's ode to a former Taiwanese boyfriend, and a Mandarin version of "MOHAN" turns up later in the running order. Nirosta Steel 是 Steven Hall 的化名，Arthur Russell 的老朋友。這張雙黑膠橫跨他將近四十年的錄音，全部重混、重構，同一首歌並置好幾個版本（〈FIRST LOVE〉就有兩款混音）。他承的正是 Russell 那套「永遠在改、拒絕宣佈完工」的做法。給臺北的你留個鉤子：〈BOSS TRIX (BENNY'S SONG)〉是 Hall 寫給一位臺灣前男友的歌，專輯裡還藏了一首〈MOHAN〉的國語版。

Vanessa Rossetto — The Professional （在窗）

Genre類型

Musique concrète / Field Recording / Sound Collage

Label廠牌

Erstwhile Records

Format介質

2×CD / Digital

Released發行

2026-06-26

Last year's Pictures of the Warm South was a portrait of Rossetto's mother before her death, and it was a tragedy. The Professional is the comedy that follows. Having promised her mother she would tour Europe, Rossetto did exactly that — as a field recordist, which she finds faintly ridiculous, and says so at length. A cabaret number opens the record with a woman "recording tea cups in Riga." On "l'enseignante" she hands out recorders and lets an audience make their own musique concrète; "the amateur" is stitched from listeners' submissions. The whole thing is a running argument about who gets to call themselves professional, made by someone happily filing herself under amateur. It is the most fun anyone has had with field recordings in a while. 去年那張《Pictures of the Warm South》是悼母的悲劇；這張是它的喜劇續篇。她答應過母親要巡演歐洲，於是真的以錄音師的身份繞了一圈，全程調侃「業餘」和「專業」的界線——開場一首卡巴萊唱著「在里加錄茶杯」，〈l'enseignante〉乾脆把錄音機發給觀眾做具象音樂，〈the amateur〉則用聽眾投稿拼成。她玩得很開心，也就懶得裝專業。