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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。

Wednesday, August 05, 2026 2026年8月05日星期三

01 Pick of the Day 今日精選

Patrick Belaga — Solar Calf

Genre類型: Contemporary Classical / Ambient / Minimalism
Label廠牌: PAN
Format介質: Vinyl / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-07-31（一手：Bandcamp 專輯頁 `releases 31 July 2026`；Bandcamp Daily Album of the Day 8/04）

There are expectations attached to game music, from the chiptune of cartridge-era hardware to the CD-quality orchestrations that came after, and on his second solo album the Los Angeles cellist Patrick Belaga borrows that grammar to escape the ordinary shape of a record. He built Solar Calf as the soundtrack to a playable environment, a world you move through zone by zone rather than a story with an ending. What he actually did to get there is stranger than the concept: he recorded live woodwinds, piano, strings and brass, then resampled the results and let DAW sequencing interrupt their natural flow, redrawing the terrain of Miyamoto's Zelda in the repetitions of the American minimalist school. "Axis" opens on blocky piano over low growls and ASMR scratches, something in the background you can't quite name. "Lake" drops marimba and long cello tones into an almost balearic sway; "Plotted Graph" threads anxious kosmische synth through a passage that would sit comfortably under the Deku Tree. There is no fixed endpoint, only a place you can save and reload. The most quietly inventive thing I've heard this week. 洛杉磯的大提琴手與作曲家 Patrick Belaga，把第二張個人專輯整個構想成一款「可以玩的開放世界」。它不打算讓你從頭聽到尾，比較像一張能在區域之間穿行的地圖：從開闊的草原走到高對比的室內，中間夾著那種「什麼都沒發生、卻處處像有意義」的過場地帶。他講得很白，靈感來自宮本茂的《薩爾達傳說》——不只近藤浩治的旋律，還有那些迷宮地牢、森林與海濱的地形。他用二十世紀美國簡約派的重複與咬合去重畫這份地圖，再把現場的木管、弦樂、銅管重新採樣、用 DAW 切斷自然的流動。開場〈Axis〉是方塊狀的鋼琴短句墊著低吼與刮擦；〈Lake〉的馬林巴敲擊與拉長的大提琴，落進近乎 balearic 的節奏；〈Plotted Graph〉那層緊張的合成器，像《時之笛》的配樂。沒有固定終點，可存檔、可重載。今年目前最好玩的一張。

Sofie Birch — Bivabippabualukka

Genre類型: Experimental / Ambient / Bossa Nova
Label廠牌: STROOM (STROOM.tv)
Format介質: Vinyl / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-07-21（一手：Bandcamp 專輯頁 `released 21 July 2026`）

Sofie Birch has spent a decade on spiritual ambient, so the surprise of Bivabippabualukka is that it's mostly bossa nova, made with her brother Alfred over several years, and that she has said plainly she will never perform it live. She describes a stretch of personal upheaval and a childlike joy on the far side of it; the material kept going in and out, remixed and regretted, until she mastered the final sequence onto a cassette recorder and the meaning showed itself. The thirteen titles read like incantations, "Sefirot Surfa," "Spirit Cartography," and a guest, Janoya, drifts through "Wanwu." Pitchfork gave it an 8.0 and reached for Stereolab dropped in an ancient wood. Light, warm, unbothered. Keep it close. 一向以「精神性氛圍」著稱的丹麥音樂人 Sofie Birch，這次交出一張最靠近 bossa nova 的作品，和弟弟 Alfred 一起，前後做了好幾年。她自陳這段時間在靈性上轉變很大，音樂來自釋放深層創傷之後、那種近乎孩子氣的喜悅。材料一直進進出出，加了又刪、混了又後悔，直到用一臺卡帶機把選曲 master 出來，意義才慢慢浮現。她也把話講清楚：這張不會拿去現場演，她仍會繼續彈她的 spiritual ambient，這張是另一回事，一個裝著喜悅的口袋。13 首曲名一長串像咒語（〈Sefirot Surfa〉〈Spirit Cartography〉），〈Wanwu〉找了 Janoya 客串。Pitchfork 給到 8.0，形容像被丟進古老森林裡的 Stereolab。輕，暖，值得循環。

Richard Spaven — Light of Day

Genre類型: Jazz / Broken Beat / Electronic
Label廠牌: Edition Records
Format介質: Vinyl / CD / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-07-24（一手：Apple id 1896036464 `2026-07-24`；Edition Records / Presto Jazz Round-Up 收錄）

Richard Spaven has been one of the more recognizable rhythmic signatures in British music for two decades, usually behind someone else; on Light of Day he steps out front as bandleader and composer. The record sits deliberately on the fence between jazz, hip-hop, club music and drum'n'bass and never loses its footing. The band is serious (Petter Eldh on bass, Stuart McCallum on guitar), and the trumpets belong to Verneri Pohjola and Nils Petter Molvær, whose ambient smear over broken-beat drums is the album's most legible pleasure. Wildchild raps on "Finders." Nine tracks, muscular without showing off. 過去二十年最有辨識度的節奏聲音之一，鼓手 Richard Spaven 這次從伴奏者走到臺前，當起 bandleader 與作曲。整張刻意坐在爵士、hip-hop、俱樂部與 drum'n'bass 的邊界上，腳下踩的仍是他自己那套 groove。陣容很硬：Oli Rockberger 的鍵盤、Petter Eldh 的貝斯、Stuart McCallum 的吉他，小號請了 Verneri Pohjola 與 Nils Petter Molvær——後者那種一貫的氛圍小號，鋪在碎拍上格外好認；〈Finders〉還找了 Wildchild 來 rap。九首，硬朗卻不炫技。ukvibe 給了滿分。

Elsa Johanna Mohr & Flávio Nunes — Em Julho

Genre類型: Brazilian Jazz / Vocal / MPB
Label廠牌: Double Moon Records
Format介質: CD / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-07-17（一手：Apple id 1891316428 `2026-07-17`；Double Moon / Presto Jazz Round-Up）

The German-Brazilian duo of singer Elsa Johanna Mohr and seven-string guitarist Flávio Nunes cut their second album in Bonn last August, and it is exactly as spare as that sounds: one voice, one guitar, no hiding. They set Brazilian chestnuts like Zequinha de Abreu's "Tico-Tico no Fubá" beside Mohr's own "Beijo da Lua" and "Jaguar," and let the whole thing move on breath — the guitar going first, the voice catching up. An afternoon record, in the best sense. 繼 2023《Passadinha》之後的第二張二重奏，2025 年 8 月在德國波恩錄成。一個人聲，一把七絃吉他，把巴西老歌（〈Água de Coco〉、Zequinha de Abreu 的〈Tico-Tico no Fubá〉）與 Mohr 自己的原創（〈Beijo da Lua〉、〈Jaguar〉、同名曲〈Em Julho〉）編在一處。編制極簡，全靠兩人的呼吸對得上：吉他先走，人聲跟進，鬆一點、緊一點都聽得出來。適合安靜的午後，配一杯不趕時間的東西。

Leonardo Andersen — Sudamericano

Genre類型: Classical Guitar / Latin American
Label廠牌: Prima Classic
Format介質: Streaming / Hi-Res
Released發行: 2026-07-31（一手：Apple id 1851426273 `2026-07-31`；Prima Classic / Presto 7/31 Round-Up）

Leonardo Andersen follows last year's Momentum: Buenos Aires by laying the folk forms of a whole continent across the solo classical guitar: tango, the Andean huayno, chacarera, vidala, zamba. He sets his own pieces next to Atahualpa Yupanqui and Juan Falú, and the fifteen titles alone map a route south — "Vidala," "Media Zamba," "Milonga del que Vuelve," "Cruz del Sur." The slow gait of the vidala, held up by a single instrument, is where the restraint pays off. For guitar listeners, unmissable. 繼 2025《Momentum: Buenos Aires》之後，阿根廷吉他手 Leonardo Andersen 把整個南美的民間形式攤在古典吉他上：探戈、安地斯的 huayno、chacarera、vidala、zamba。他把自己的作品和 Juan Quintero、Atahualpa Yupanqui、Juan Falú 的曲子並置，15 首標題本身就排成一張地圖（〈Vidala〉〈Media Zamba〉〈Milonga del que Vuelve〉〈Cruz del Sur〉）。vidala 與 zamba 那種慢步的律動，被單獨一把吉他撐起來，剋制而不炫，愈聽愈有味。古典吉他樂迷別錯過。

PANIXPHERE — Gods and Zeros

Genre類型: Art Rock / Noise / Prog
Label廠牌: ATE Music
Format介質: Vinyl / CD / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-07-29（一手：Bandcamp 專輯頁；organthing 2026-08-02 報道 `at long long last`）

For decades PANIXPHERE was a rumor, a band from the Cardiacs and Sea Nymphs family (Bic Hayes, Jon Poole, Bob Leith) with no album to show for it. Gods and Zeros is finally that album, thirteen originals with a footnote buried in the lineage: one of them, "Perfic," later became Cardiacs' "Angleworm Angel" on Sing to God. The Quietus called the racket resurrected, which is about right. Time signatures lurch, noise and melody shove at each other, and the whole thing refuses every genre box you try on it. English underground prog at its least classifiable, and its most addictive. 一支和 Cardiacs、The Sea Nymphs 系出同門的團（Bic Hayes、Jon Poole、Bob Leith），醞釀了幾十年，才終於交出首張專輯。13 首原創裡藏著一段族譜註腳：其中一首〈Perfic〉後來長成了 Cardiacs 在《Sing to God》裡的〈Angleworm Angel〉。The Quietus 形容那股喧鬧「被復活了」。時值亂切、噪音與旋律硬碰，這是英倫地下 prog／art-rock 最難歸類的一條支流，聽慣了會上癮。

Forbear — 4songs Ⅱ

Genre類型: Emo / Shoegaze / Slowcore
Label廠牌: Alkaline Maniacs（自廠）
Format介質: CD / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-07-22（一手：Apple id 6785450866 `2026-07-22`；Bandcamp 專輯頁）

Forbear are a Tokyo band who fold emo, alt-rock and shoegaze into groove-forward songs and call it, cheerfully, "Tokyo Positive Emogaze." The four-song 4songs Ⅱ was mastered by Corey Coffman of the American band Gleemer, a long-standing hero of theirs, which makes this a case of getting your idol to finish your record. The guitars manage haze and forward motion at once. Small, but it lands. 東京的團 Forbear，把 emo、alt-rock 與 shoegaze 揉進以 groove 帶動的旋律裡，自稱「Tokyo Positive Emogaze」。這張四曲 EP 的母帶，交給了美國 emo／shoegaze 團 Gleemer 的 Corey Coffman，在 DEEP DOWN STUDIO 完成——Coffman 是他們多年的偶像與影響源，這回等於請偶像替自己收尾。吉他的霧感與推進力並存，短小卻夠勁，一口氣聽完剛好。

Nariaki Obukuro & 5lack — Icchōra（一張羅）

Genre類型: Experimental R&B / Hip-Hop
Label廠牌: TOKA / Takada Music Production Office
Format介質: Vinyl / Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-01（一手：Apple id 6791026164 `2026-08-01`；ongaku Natalie 682129；本人 X 確認 8/1）

Nariaki Obukuro and the rapper 5lack team up for the first time since 2019, and the striking thing about Icchōra is how completely the two of them own it: across eight tracks they sing, rap, arrange and mix everything themselves, 5lack handling the board, with Obukuro's pianist Mayuko Katakura and guitarist Kazuki Isogai in the room. It nods to late-nineties hip-hop and early-2000s R&B without dressing up as nostalgia. The limited vinyl went on sale only at their one-night Shibuya show on August 1; the rest of us start with the stream. 小袋成彬與饒舌歌手 5lack，睽違約七年再度合作（上一次是 2019《Piercing》裡的〈Gaia〉）。八首歌，兩人全程自己包辦：唱、rap、編曲、混音——5lack 親自混，PHONON 的熊野功雄 master，小袋的樂手片倉真由子（鋼琴）、磯貝一樹（吉他）也進了錄音室。聲音向 90 年代末的 hip-hop 與 2000 年代初的 R&B 致意。限量黑膠只在 8 月 1 日澀谷 LINE CUBE 的雙人現場「Gaia」上先賣，其餘先聽串流。