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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
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primitive percussion youth orchestra gabble ratchets

Label廠牌
Forged River Recordings
Format介質
4 頁 CD digipack + 數位(24-bit/44.1kHz)
Released發行
2026-06-26(iTunes releaseDate 6789759570 `2026-06-26` + Bandcamp releases 行 + Halifax Courier 報道)

The orchestra is six children between seven and ten, pupils at Cornholme School, and the credits list them by first name only: alice, archie, eleanor, erika, jenson, tom. Mark S. Williamson, a former primary music teacher who also researches local folklore, started the group in 2016 on the principle that a school music cupboard already contains everything anyone needs. So: hand percussion, homemade bowed things, and the school's 1956 Kemble upright, which nobody has had tuned and which supplies the record with its particular sourness. 演奏的是六個七到十歲的小孩,英格蘭西約克郡 Cornholme 小學的學生。內頁上只留他們的名字:alice、archie、eleanor、erika、jenson、tom。樂器是學校音樂櫃裡積灰的那些:手打擊、自製的拉弦玩意,還有校內那臺一九五六年的 Kemble 直立鋼琴——沒人送去調過音,全碟就靠這股酸味撐著。

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Speaker Music — Synoptic Audio
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Speaker Music Synoptic Audio

Label廠牌
Planet Mu
Released發行
2026-07-10(iTunes releaseDate 1893606109 `2026-07-10`(GB store)+ Bandcamp released 行)

DeForrest Brown Jr. says this is the last record under the name, which closes out four albums for Planet Mu since 2019. It was made twice. The first pass happened at EMPAC in Troy, New York, spatialised through IRCAM's Panoramix and captured binaurally on a Neumann dummy head. Brown then took those files to a gallery at Emily Carr in Vancouver, played them back through four Genelecs and a sub, and recorded the result on an ambisonic mic — so the walls and ceiling of a room in British Columbia are, functionally, the third performer. DeForrest Brown Jr. 說這是 Speaker Music 名下最後一張,也結束了他自二〇一九年起在 Planet Mu 的四張約。

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Mama Terra — Inner Space
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Mama Terra Inner Space

Label廠牌
Acid Jazz
Released發行
2026-07-17(iTunes releaseDate 1893346161 `2026-07-17` + Bandcamp released 行 + Acid Jazz 產品頁)

Marco Cafolla's Glasgow group assembled this across three cities — Glasgow, Los Angeles, Brooklyn — with Joel Hamilton engineering and Dave Collins mastering, which on paper reads like a recipe for something airless. It is the opposite. The strings are handled throughout by the Ayoub Sisters, a classical-crossover duo who play them with far less reverence than the arrangements invite, and Jeremy Pelt turns up on "The Observers" with the sort of trumpet line that sounds like it was recorded in one take because nobody wanted a second. Conrad Roberts 的名字,多數人是在《Live-Evil》的內頁上看見的。一九七一年他替 Miles Davis 唸了幾段白,後來雙方談過第二次合作,稿子他寫好了,事情沒成。

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Tomo Katsurada (桂田智) & Jonny Nash — At The Emerald Pool
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Tomo Katsurada (桂田智) & Jonny Nash At The Emerald Pool

Label廠牌
Melody As Truth / Future Days Radio
Released發行
2026-07-02(iTunes releaseDate 1895769927 `2026-07-02` + Bandcamp released 行)

They rented a barn in the Dutch countryside, chosen on the basis of how it sounded rather than how it looked, moved in the amplifiers, and blocked out three days in September 2025. They finished half a day early. That detail tells you most of what the record is: ten tracks of interlocking delayed fingerpicking, five of them with vocals split between the two men, and no evident anxiety about filling space. Mixed before Christmas, out in July. 幾何學模樣解散之後,主唱桂田智去了阿姆斯特丹。他和 Jonny Nash 在那裡認識十年,互相在對方唱片上客串過,卻要到二〇二四年十一月才第一次同臺。

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John Holiday & Kevin J. Miller — Over My Head
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John Holiday & Kevin J. Miller Over My Head

Label廠牌
Pentatone(PTC5187583)
Released發行
2026-07-17(iTunes releaseDate 6766645874 `2026-07-17` + Pentatone 產品頁 + Presto)

A countertenor's first solo album, twenty-one tracks, and the programme moves further than most recital discs would dare. It opens with a Hall Johnson spiritual, passes through Theo Morrison's Joyce settings and three world-premiere vocalises by Carlos Simon, collects four H. Leslie Adams songs and Robert L. Morris's Lyric Suite, and then Holiday does his own arrangements of "Strange Fruit", "Summertime" and "Fly Me to the Moon" as though they belonged in the same room as the rest. 美國假聲男高音 John Holiday 的首張個人專輯,鋼琴是 Kevin J. Miller。錄音時間是二〇二四年十一月二十到二十三日,在波士頓 WGBH 的錄音室完成,壓到今年七月十七日才發——中間隔了二十個月。

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Lara Downes, 9 Horses & Invoke — Hold These Truths
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Lara Downes, 9 Horses & Invoke Hold These Truths

Label廠牌
Pentatone(PTC5187581)
Released發行
2026-07-03(iTunes releaseDate 6769174240 `2026-07-03` + Pentatone 產品頁)

Twenty-two tracks, eighteen composers, gathered over two years of driving: California to New York, Vermont to Alabama. Ives and Copland are where you would expect them. Oscar Peterson and a Bill Evans reading of Bernstein are not. The anthology logic occasionally strains, but the sequencing is generous rather than dutiful, and the Stephen Foster arrangement — mandolin, violin, bass, courtesy of 9 Horses — is the track I would put on for someone who thinks they dislike this kind of project. 二十二軌、十八位作曲家,多數是獨奏鋼琴,出自 Downes 橫跨兩年的實地行程:加州到紐約,佛蒙特到阿拉巴馬。

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黃奇斌 (Ng Ki-Pin) — 虛華的夢想是一支刀
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黃奇斌 (Ng Ki-Pin) 虛華的夢想是一支刀

Label廠牌
HavingBoth CO. × 環球音樂臺灣 Universal Music Taiwan
Released發行
2026-07-10(iTunes releaseDate 6781607868 `2026-07-10` + Blow 吹音樂 88815「今日推出」)

Seven years is a long time to be quiet. The band that made him well known here dissolved; his voice was damaged; the label situation resolved itself only last year. This is the first record he has written and produced entirely on his own terms, ten songs alternating between Taiwanese and Mandarin, and the singing carries the evidence of the injury rather than hiding it. Five music videos, made with the director who shot the band's biggest hit, run alongside it. The album is being sold on the idea of five kinds of male hurt, which is a heavier frame than the songs need. 全碟的視覺符號是一顆翻模做出來的人頭。翻模那天他在模子裡睡著了,所以那顆頭是閉著眼的,後來就這樣定案——這個細節比任何文案都準確。

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田中ヤコブ (Jacob Tanaka) — 県央の憂鬱
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田中ヤコブ (Jacob Tanaka) 県央の憂鬱

Label廠牌
NEWFOLK
Released發行
2026-07-22(iTunes releaseDate 6787908833 `2026-07-22` + OTOTOY News 130761)

Two of the thirteen titles here contain the word for melancholy. Track eleven gives the album its name and locates it in kenō, the inland middle of Kanagawa prefecture — a term with no glamour attached, which is presumably the point of using it. Track thirteen borrows Satō Haruo's title from 1919 outright. Apple has rendered the whole thing in English as Real Side of Kanagawa, which is not wrong and not right. Tanaka plays and records and mixes everything himself; the CD, three weeks behind the stream, adds live takes from 2020. 四人樂團「家主(YANUSHI)」主唱兼吉他手的第六張個人全長。吉他、貝斯、鼓、鋼琴,加上大提琴與風琴,全部由他一人演奏、錄音、混音。

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