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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

Monday, August 24, 2026 2026年8月24日星期一

01 Pick of the Day 今日精選

Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan & Thomas Strønen — Windflower

Genre類型: Chamber Jazz · Improvisation · Piano Trio
Label廠牌: ECM Records
Format介質: CD · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-21

Three passports, one room: a Japanese pianist who has spent years in Oslo, an American bassist, a Norwegian drummer, and Manfred Eicher at the desk of La Buissonne in May of last year. Of the nine pieces only "La Source" arrived with a written melody; the rest were made where they were recorded. That description usually promises something shapeless, and this is not that. Tanaka leaves whole bars unfilled and lets the decay do the work. Morgan walks at a pace that would be too slow for anyone else and is exactly right here, and Strønen mostly declines to keep time, appearing at the edges of a phrase rather than under it. What holds the record together is patience rather than form, which is a risky thing to build on. It survives four listens, which is more than I expected on the first. 九首曲子，只有〈La Source〉帶著事先寫好的旋律骨架，其餘八首是 2025 年 5 月在法國南部 Pernes-les-Fontaines 的 Studios La Buissonne 當場長出來的。這種做法在 ECM 不算新鮮，難得的是它沒有變成那種漫無邊際的自由即興：鋼琴留下大量沒填滿的空拍，低音提琴用很慢的步伐把時間往前推，鼓幾乎只在邊緣出聲。〈Tree of Stars〉裡 Thomas Morgan 那條低音線是全碟最好認的一段，旋律性強到幾乎搶走鋼琴的位置。整張最短的〈The Sea Is Still〉兩分三十六秒，最長的〈Driftwood〉六分零四秒，前者不到後者的一半。三個人 2024 年 9 月才在奧斯陸第一次同臺，Manfred Eicher 聽完就提議進錄音室。

Anne-Sophie Mutter — American Tunes #1

Genre類型: Classical · Chamber · Contemporary
Label廠牌: Alpha Classics
Format介質: CD · Vinyl · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-21

The Sebastian Currier piece here, "Ringtone Variations," began as an interruption: a phone went off during a performance and the composer, instead of glaring, went home and wrote variations. It is the lightest thing on a record otherwise weighted with André Previn, who wrote both of the other works for Mutter and was married to her from 1998 until 2006. The Second Violin Concerto is scored for solo violin, string orchestra and two harpsichord interludes, which sounds like a stunt and behaves like a memory. Its first movement is marked Molto rubato, and Mutter plays it considerably straighter than the marking allows, as though wary of what the piece would do if she gave it any room. Previn died in 2019. The restraint reads as a decision, not a limitation. 碟裡兩首 Previn，都是他寫給她的：2010 年那首第二小提琴協奏曲，編制是獨奏小提琴、弦樂團，中間插進兩段大鍵琴間奏；還有 2009 年的鋼琴三重奏。兩人 1998 年結婚，2006 年離婚，他 2019 年過世。這種關係要怎麼演是個難題，而她的處理方式是不特別處理：第一樂章標記 Molto rubato，她拉得比標記還要收斂。第三首是 Sebastian Currier 的〈Ringtone Variations〉，起點是一通在演出中途響起來的手機鈴聲。作曲家沒有生氣，回去把它寫成了變奏曲。

Anthony Hopkins — Life is a Dream

Genre類型: Orchestral · Crossover · Choral
Label廠牌: Decca Classics
Format介質: CD · Hi-Res · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-21

André Rieu recorded "And the Waltz Goes On" in 2011. The man who wrote it got around to his own version fifteen years later, at eighty-eight, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Philharmonia at Alexandra Palace on the fourteenth of April. Twelve pieces span roughly six decades of writing, and "My Fatherland" brings in the Bach Choir and the boys of Winchester Cathedral for a piece about Wales. The tunes are unembarrassed by their own datedness; the orchestration is Decca's, plush and anonymous, and it is not always possible to hear where the composer stops and the machine begins. But the piano entry in the second movement of the "1947" suite is quieter than a vanity project has any need to be. I have no settled view of this record and am not sure I will. 八十八歲，第一張正式古典專輯，杜達美指揮愛樂管絃樂團，4 月 14 日錄於倫敦 Alexandra Palace。十二首曲子橫跨大約六十年的寫作，其中〈And the Waltz Goes On〉早在 2011 年就被 André Rieu 錄過一次，作曲者本人的版本排到了十五年之後。〈My Fatherland〉調來巴哈合唱團與溫徹斯特座堂的童聲，寫的是威爾斯。這張碟該怎麼聽，我自己也還沒想清楚：旋律寫得相當老派，配器由 Decca 那一整套人馬撐起來，很難分清哪些是他的手筆。但〈1947: Suite〉第二樂章那段鋼琴進來的地方，確實安靜得不像一張為了發行而發行的唱片。

Angles 4 — Angles 4

Genre類型: Free Jazz · Avant-Garde · Improvisation
Label廠牌: Relative Pitch Records
Format介質: CD (Limited Edition) · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-21

Recorded in Stockholm on the twenty-second of April 2024, released on the twenty-first of August 2026. Two years and four months is a long time for a free jazz session to sit on a shelf, and the delay has done it no harm. Martin Küchen's trio, going since 2004, added the vibraphonist Mattias Ståhl for these four pieces, and the vibraphone changes the temperature more than a fourth instrument usually does: the group's old sharpness turns conversational, argued rather than declared. The first track is credited to three Küchens. Two of them are his sons. Limited edition compact disc, which in 2026 is its own small act of defiance. Martin Küchen 的 Angles 三重奏 2004 年成團，2024 年 4 月 22 日在斯德哥爾摩的 BAS 錄這一張時，找了 Angles 9 的老搭檔 Mattias Ståhl 帶顫音琴進來，三個人變成四個。顫音琴一加，那種尖銳的政治性反而軟了半格，變得更像在夜裡低聲爭論。第一首〈Against the permanent revolution〉的作曲人欄位寫著三個 Küchen：Martin、Leo、Isak。後兩位是他的兒子。錄完到發行隔了兩年四個月，限量 CD。

Black Marble — Life in Small Spaces

Genre類型: Coldwave · Post-Punk · Synth-Pop
Label廠牌: Sacred Bones Records
Format介質: Vinyl (Limited Transparent Orange) · CD · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-21

The drums on the seventh Black Marble record are samples of real drums, arranged with the metronomic flatness Wire perfected around 1978. That is the tell. Chris Stewart has spent fourteen years building walls of synthesizer and has now taken most of them down in favour of staccato guitar figures borrowed from Pylon, The Necessaries and R. Stevie Moore, which is to say from American college radio at its least glamorous. He describes wanting a chime-y hypnotic quality, and gets it. The subject underneath is the underground itself and what has happened to it, a topic that tends to produce grievance and here produces something closer to inventory. Limited transparent orange vinyl. 第七張，還是 Chris Stewart 一個人寫、一個人錄、一個人交件。過去十四年他靠的是合成器堆起來的牆，這次牆拆了，改成斷奏吉他線，參照的是 Pylon、The Necessaries、R. Stevie Moore 那批美國大學電臺的常客；鼓改用真鼓採樣，擺成 Wire 式的節拍器。他自己的說法是想要一種「chime-y hypnotic quality」。整張碟講的是地下音樂這些年怎麼變、他在裡面站哪裡。橙色透明黑膠限量。

No Joy — Big Life, Big Leaf

Genre類型: Shoegaze · Dream Pop
Label廠牌: Hand Drawn Dracula
Format介質: Vinyl (Bandcamp-exclusive Rose 10") · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-21

Three songs, pressed to a rose-coloured ten-inch sold only through Bandcamp, which is a fair amount of ceremony for a three-track release. Jasamine White-Gluz and Fire-Toolz share the production credit, an odd pairing on paper: shoegaze's most patient survivor beside a Warp artist who never lets a texture sit still. On "Süki & Amadeus" the seams between them stay audible, and that is the reason to play it twice. 三首歌，Jasamine White-Gluz 與 Warp 旗下的 Fire-Toolz 在 produced 一欄並排署名。就三首，卻壓成一張 Bandcamp 獨賣的玫瑰色 10 吋。

下中洋介 (Yosuke Shimonaka) — SHIMONAKA

Genre類型: Fusion · City Pop · Instrumental
Label廠牌: Thaian Records
Format介質: Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-19

Mixed by Okada Takuro in Tokyo, mastered by Dave Cooley in Los Angeles: an unusual pair of hands for a debut by the guitarist of DYGL. Eight instrumentals, a little over half an hour, titles arranged like a holiday brochure — Private Jet, Coconut Groovin', Rainy Harbor, Aquarium Memory. The lineage runs back to Japanese fusion of the late seventies, and Shimonaka does not pretend otherwise, but Cooley's mastering keeps the surface too clean for pastiche. Coconut Groovin' at five minutes eleven is where he stops referencing and starts playing. The label, Thaian, is run by Abe Yuma of never young beach. DYGL 的吉他手第一張個人作，八首全器樂，三十分鐘出頭，一句人聲都沒有。曲名照著度假型錄排：Private Jet、Coconut Groovin'、Rainy Harbor、Aquarium Memory。血緣很清楚，是 1970 到 80 年代日本 Fusion 那一脈的編配習慣，但他沒有把它做成復刻——混音交給岡田拓郎，母帶交給洛杉磯的 Dave Cooley，聲音的表面比那個年代乾淨得多。廠牌 Thaian Records 由 never young beach 的安部勇磨主理。

下中洋介 (Yosuke Shimonaka) — SHIMONAKA YouTube ↗

Cloud Canyons — Body Wisdom

Genre類型: Kosmische · Ambient · Techno
Label廠牌: Berliner Tonaufnahmen
Format介質: Vinyl (Numbered 2LP) · Streaming
Released發行: 2026-08-01

The division of labour on this Italian quartet's second album is unusually clean: Nicola Caleffi supplies every instrumental texture, all analogue synthesizers run through digital programming, while Stella Baraldi, Michelle Cristofori and Laura Storchi write and sing every word. Nine tracks spread across four sides, seventy minutes, and the range is wide enough to be suspicious of — "Mantle Of Light" is a straight floor-filler, "Chrome Sunset" a high-energy pattern piece, "Double Vision" a pulse with chanting over it. Then "Resonance Drift" arrives and every instrument leaves. Overtone singing, unaccompanied, in the middle of a techno-adjacent double LP. Numbered double vinyl, with a stamped white-label edition alongside. 義大利四人組的第二張全長，九首鋪滿雙黑膠四面，七十分鐘。Nicola Caleffi 負責器樂織體，全部類比合成器搭數位編程；Stella Baraldi、Michelle Cristofori、Laura Storchi 三個人寫詞並唱。〈Double Vision〉是脈衝加咒語式吟唱，〈Chrome Sunset〉走高能 pattern，〈Mantle Of Light〉是全碟最硬的舞池段落。真正該先聽的是第三首〈Resonance Drift〉：整首隻有人聲泛音，一件樂器都沒有進來。編號雙黑膠之外另有蓋章白版。