Daily Drops · Vol.130每日唱片 · Vol.130
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
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Classical · Crossover
- Label廠牌
- Avie
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-07
The premise sounds like a novelty act and turns out to be a family tree. The New York quartet takes Janet Jackson's 1989 protest-pop landmark as scaffolding, then hangs new commissions on it: Jlin, the footwork producer whose "Baobab" translates her drum-machine logic to bow and string, alongside pieces by Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, and Eddie Venegas. Between movements, electronic "Rhythm Nation Remix" interludes by Jannina and John-Paul Norpoth stitch the program together, so the album plays as one continuous argument rather than a recital. The deeper roots come from the Kronos Quartet's Fifty for the Future library: Henry Threadgill's "Sixfivetwo" and Fodé Lassana Diabaté's "Sunjata's Time," which opens the record in Jacob Garchik's arrangement, balafon patterns redistributed across four instruments. Fifty-three minutes on Avie, and the rare crossover record where the pop source is treated as repertoire, not decoration. It earns the title. 紐約弦樂四重奏，拿 Janet Jackson 1989 年的《Rhythm Nation》當整張專輯的骨架。新委約裡最搶眼的是 footwork 製作人 Jlin 的《Baobab》，她把鼓機的切分邏輯直接翻譯給弓與弦；另收 Threadgill 與 Diabaté 兩首 Kronos「Fifty for the Future」曲庫的作品，開場《Sunjata's Time》把巴拉風音型拆給四件樂器。曲間穿插電子 Remix 間奏，全輯縫成一氣。流行專輯被當成正經曲目對待，這件事本身比任何改編都少見。今日最佳。
Neptunian Maximalism — Nāgabhūtaṃ
- Genre類型
- Doom Jazz · Drone · Experimental
- Label廠牌
- I, Voidhanger
- Format介質
- Vinyl (Ltd 300) / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-07
One night at Le Botanique in Brussels, April 2025: forty-two minutes of improvisation, cut into eleven tracks numbered XI through XXI. The Éons Quartet is billed as a resurrection of the band's original lineup, with an asterisk: founding drummer Pierre Arèse no longer plays, so percussionist Dirk Wachtelaer sits in, and the record's engine is his duel with Sébastien Schmit, two kits arguing across the stage while Jean Jacques Duerinckx's saxophone and Guillaume Cazalet's amplified guitar pile on. The Sanskrit title translates roughly as "among the gods, at the sight of the one who has become a serpent, they are afraid." Quietus album of the week; 300 copies on vinyl, half black, half marbled orange. 布魯塞爾集體 2025 年 4 月在 Le Botanique 的現場：42 分鐘即興一刀不剪，切成 11 軌，曲名從 XI 排到 XXI。梵語標題的意思大致是「眾神之中，看見化身為蛇的那位，他們害怕」。初代鼓手已經不打鼓了，客席打擊樂手頂上，跟 Sébastien Schmit 打出整張的主引擎；薩克斯和失真吉他負責把天花板往上推。Quietus 本週最佳專輯。黑膠 300 張，150 黑、150 橘色大理石紋，手快有手慢無。
wave to earth — bad pieces
- Genre類型
- Indie Rock · Dream Pop
- Label廠牌
- WAVY
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-07
Two years of silence after play with earth! 0.03, and the Seoul trio returns with eleven songs and a title pinched from the "Bed Peace" sign above John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Bed-In. Daniel Kim says the new instruments they experimented with brought the band "closer to the essence" of what they are, which is a gentle way of saying the edges have been sanded differently this time. A world tour follows. Their easeful surf-adjacent melancholy made them one of Korea's biggest indie exports; whether this one gambles or consolidates, I'll know after a few more evenings with it. 首爾三人組睽違兩年的第二張正式專輯。專輯名玩的是列儂與小野洋子 1969 年 Bed-In 床頭那塊「Bed Peace」紙牌，歪一個母音變成「壞掉的碎片」，從和平標語滑向自我盤點。主唱 Daniel Kim 說這次用新樂器做的實驗比以往更接近樂團的本質。11 首，之後接世界巡演，亞洲場次應該不遠。
Papangu — Celestial
- Genre類型
- Prog · Experimental Rock
- Label廠牌
- Self-released
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-07
The Brazilian band's third album comes with a production method as a position paper: recorded and mixed entirely to magnetic tape over nine mostly-live days, no computers at any stage, mastered fully analogue at Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin, all stated plainly as a refusal of AI tools in art. Producer Richard Behrens (Elder, Kadavar) supplied the vintage gear. What's on the tape is stranger than the manifesto: zeuhl and King Crimson vocabulary grafted onto forró and ciranda rhythms from their native Paraíba, with two singers splitting the labor on "Colosso," one guttural, one melodic, like a monster and its interpreter. Somewhere in the mix, reportedly, a rubber chicken. The reach spans Hermeto Pascoal to Gentle Giant, and the seams are the point of pride. 巴西若昂佩索阿樂團的第三張，錄音方式就是立場聲明：反對 AI 進入藝術，整張錄進磁帶、在帶上混音，全程沒開過電腦，母帶送柏林 Emil Berliner Studios 純類比完成。九天現場直錄，製作人是柏林迷幻圈的 Richard Behrens，古董器材堆滿棚。音樂比宣言更值得聽：zeuhl 與 King Crimson 的語彙嫁接東北巴西的 forró 節奏，《Colosso》裡雙主唱一個喉音一個旋律輪流發言。立場可以吵，這張的密度吵不了。
Ela Minus & Nick León — qué les pasó a mis amigos?
- Genre類型
- Electronic · Minimal Club
- Label廠牌
- Smugglers Way
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-07
Three tracks from years of mutual admiration between Bogotá and Miami: Ela Minus's hardware melancholy meeting Nick León's humid club pressure. On the title track she sings "Who am I if I stop working?" over synths that move like something underground and unhurried. Patrick Holland mixed, Heba Kadry mastered; the November 12-inch adds remixes from Loidis, Guedra Guedra, and Brenda. Short, and it lands. 波哥大的 Ela Minus 和邁阿密的 Nick León 醞釀多年的首次正式合作，三首歌：標題曲、lose my cool、espiral。主題是心碎、斷掉的友誼、幻滅和硬撐，標題曲裡她在低伏的合成器上唱「如果我不再工作，我是誰」。11 月的 12 吋黑膠會加收 Loidis 等三版 remix。三首確實太短，但當預告片看，下一步值得等。
Joseph Havlat — Sinner, Don't Let This Harvest Pass
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Classical · Piano
- Label廠牌
- Métier
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-07
The Tasmanian-born pianist builds an album as a séance across two centuries. Schumann's Geistervariationen, the theme he believed angels dictated to him days before his asylum committal, is answered by Michael Finnissy's 25-minute "R.S. Geistervariationen," which ends with a movement titled "Chorus of ghostly voices from afar." The title work is the real event: a rare joint composition by Finnissy and Cassandra Miller, worked from the African-American spiritual "Sinner, Don't Let This Harvest Pass." Miller's solo "Philip the Wanderer" rounds out 69 minutes on Métier. Program-note music that plays like a ghost story told slowly. 舒曼進療養院前幾天寫下《幽靈變奏曲》，自稱主題由天使口述。塔斯馬尼亞出身的鋼琴家 Havlat 把它放在專輯開頭，接 Michael Finnissy 的 25 分鐘回應之作，終段標題叫「遠方幽靈的合唱」。標題作更罕見：Finnissy 與 Cassandra Miller 聯名合寫，底本是非裔靈歌。69 分鐘的獨奏專輯，結構像一場隔了 170 年的通信。彈性速度都留給幽靈。
Ancient Infinity Orchestra — It's Always About Liberation
- Genre類型
- Spiritual Jazz · Large Ensemble
- Label廠牌
- Gondwana
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-07-24
Catch-up, from July 24. At the 2024 We Out Here festival, Moor Mother stepped to the Leeds ensemble's stage and said: "It's always about love / It's always about liberation." Bandleader Ozzy Moysey split the sentences into twin albums; last time was Love, this is the darker half. Harps, strings, and massed horns in the Gondwana house tradition of Manchester spiritualism, though the mood here runs to storm-cloud modal vamps. Bandcamp Daily's jazz column says it outdoes its twin. Seven tracks; "Nafas" is where I'd start. 補記，7 月 24 日。2024 年 We Out Here 音樂節，Moor Mother 站上他們的舞臺說了兩句話：「It's always about love / It's always about liberation」。團長 Ozzy Moysey 把兩句話拆成一對雙胞胎專輯，上一張管愛與光，這張管暗面。利茲的靈性爵士大樂團，豎琴、弦樂、成排管樂，Gondwana 家的曼徹斯特靈性血統往北挪了一城。入門先聽《Nafas》。
kelz — A Sweet Passerby
- Genre類型
- Dream Pop · Indie Pop
- Label廠牌
- Bayonet
- Format介質
- Vinyl (Colored) / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-07-24
Also from July 24: the Orange County songwriter Kelly Truong's second album, four years in the writing, Y2K pop gloss over grief. "Sweet Escape" was finished during the last week she spent with her grandmother. The Quietus review this week called the depths under the surface hidden; I'd call them barely covered. Eleven tracks on Bayonet, limited colored vinyl. 也是 7 月 24 日補課。橙縣越南裔創作人 Kelly Truong 的第二張，寫了四年。Y2K 舞曲的糖衣底下壓著喪親與抑鬱：《Sweet Escape》是在外婆過世前最後一週陪伴時寫完的，節拍越亮，歌詞越想逃。收尾曲《I'm Sorry》向年輕的自己道歉。限量彩膠。
Comments 留言