Daily Drops · Vol.170每日唱片 · Vol.170
The fourth reunion with the same engineer, and five Matt Dennis songs. 收尾那首是從 J-POP 長成的標準曲
山本剛トリオ — PLAYS SONGS
- Genre類型
- Piano Trio · Straight-Ahead Jazz · Japanese Jazz
- Label廠牌
- SOMETHIN'COOL
- Format介質
- CD / Vinyl / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-09-24
Twelve standards, and five of them come from Matt Dennis: "Violets for Your Furs," "Angel Eyes," "Everything Happens to Me," "Night We Called It a Day," "Will You Still Be Mine?" Two fifths of a programme resting on one songwriter turns a selection into an argument, and it is the right songwriter for the argument being made — Dennis sang his own material at the piano, and the stated concept here is that the piano should sing. The closer, "Everything," is a J-pop song that has quietly become a standard, which pushes the same idea one step further. The real selling point, though, is the recording. This is the fourth record in Yamamoto's reunion series with the engineer Yoshihiko Kannari, whose partnership with him goes back to the Three Blind Mice years; the first three were cut in Kannari's private room, at Onkio Haus, and on a listener-requested programme called REQUEST. March, Onkio Haus Studio 1, with Hiroshi Kagawa on bass and Hisao Ōsumi on drums. Three formats at ¥3,300, ¥4,400 and ¥6,600, the dearest a single-layer SACD carrying an extra track nobody else gets. This is a record sold to people who listen to rooms. 一張標準曲選集，五分之二押在同一位作曲家：十二首裡有五首出自 Matt Dennis——〈Violets for Your Furs〉〈Angel Eyes〉〈Everything Happens to Me〉〈Night We Called It a Day〉〈Will You Still Be Mine?〉。這個比例讓選曲從「拼盤」變成一種主張：Dennis 自己是彈唱出身，旋律都寫得能哼，而山本剛（Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio）這次的企劃概念恰好寫著「鋼琴是要唱的」。收尾放〈Everything〉，一首從 J-POP 長成標準曲的歌，等於把同一個命題再推一步。不過真正要衝的是錄音本身：山本剛與錄音師神成芳彥的交情追到 Three Blind Mice 時期，這是兩人重聚企劃的第四彈，前三張分別錄在神成的私人工作室、音響ハウス、以及一張向聽眾徵曲的《REQUEST》。今年三月錄於音響ハウス 1st，香川裕史貝斯、大隅壽男鼓。三種載體 ¥3,300／¥4,400／¥6,600，最貴那版 SACD 單層還多收一首別的載體沒有的曲子。錄音師的名字才是這張碟的賣點。
Protomartyr — Hotel Usona
- Genre類型
- Post-Punk · Noise Rock · Art Punk
- Label廠牌
- Domino Recording Co.
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-09-25
The audible change is brass. Dave Fridmann produces for the first time, at Tarbox Road in western New York, and his son Jon plays horn on the session, which is an instrument this Detroit band has never carried before; several of these songs now have a smeared edge at the top. The title is a real word, or was: in the nineteenth century somebody compressed United States of North America into Usona, and Esperantists kept it alive for decades as a name for the country that did not also claim two continents. The proportions are the other tell. "The Old Hotel" opens at 4:21 and "Checking Out" closes at 7:43, nearly double, and this band has historically not let anything run that long. 這張的變化聽得出來：第七張專輯頭一次交給 Dave Fridmann 製作，錄在紐約州西部的 Tarbox Road Studios，吹銅管的是 Fridmann 的兒子 Jon——這支底特律後龐克樂團過去的編制裡沒有這件樂器。碟名也值得說一句：Usona 不是造出來的字，十九世紀真有人把 United States of North America 縮成這五個字母，後來世界語運動拿它當美國的中性國名用。九首的排法一頭一尾把飯店這個比喻關起來：開場〈The Old Hotel〉四分二十一秒，收尾〈Checking Out〉七分四十三秒，收尾那首差不多是開場的兩倍長，而這支樂團過去很少讓一首歌拖這麼久。
Thomas Bowes / Sinfonia Arcadiana / Nicholas Fallowfield — Elgar
- Genre類型
- Classical · Late Romantic · Violin Concerto
- Label廠牌
- Rubicon Classics
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-09-25
The reason to pick this up is the second half. Salut d'Amour, Chanson de Nuit, La Capricieuse, Sospiri and Chanson de Matin are pieces you normally meet with a piano behind them; here all five are heard in orchestral settings newly made by Eleanor Alberga, who has played duo recitals with Bowes for years and who is not, on the evidence of the Sospiri, interested in making them sound like salon leftovers. The concerto itself was taped in Abbey Road Studio One, the room where Elgar conducted the sixteen-year-old Menuhin in the same work in 1932. It was finished in December 2022; the miniatures waited until May 2026, with a change of producer somewhere in between. Three and a half years of calendar, presented as one record. 賣點在協奏曲後面那五首小品。Salut d'Amour、Chanson de Nuit、La Capricieuse、Sospiri、Chanson de Matin——這幾首平常只有小提琴加鋼琴的版本，這次全部由 Eleanor Alberga 新改寫成小提琴與樂團版，她是 Bowes 長年的二重奏搭檔，Sospiri 那首改得最不客氣。協奏曲本身錄在 Abbey Road 第一錄音室：同一個房間，1932 年艾爾加本人指揮、十六歲的曼紐因拉的也是這首。真正費事的是時間——協奏曲 2022 年十二月就收工，小品的樂團版拖到 2026 年五月才補錄，中途原製作人 Stephen Frost 退出，換成 Simon Kiln 接手，前後三年半。樂團 Sinfonia Arcadiana 並非常設團體，由倫敦電影配樂承包商 Isobel Griffiths Ltd. 為了這幾天召集起來的 session 樂手組成。
Julia Jacklin — The Gem
- Genre類型
- Singer-Songwriter · Indie Folk · Chamber Pop
- Label廠牌
- 4AD
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-09-25
Her first for 4AD, and the copyright line reads "Julia Jacklin under exclusive license to 4AD Ltd," which means she kept the masters and rented them out. The sequencing is the craft here. There is exactly one guest credit across ten songs and it sits on the last of them, "I Wish," three minutes flat, with the Melbourne sister duo The Maes. Immediately before it comes "Walk On Me" at 6:03, the longest thing on the record, so the album spends its largest gesture and then leaves inside three minutes. 4AD 首張，而且版權行寫的是「Julia Jacklin under exclusive license to 4AD Ltd」：獨家授權，母帶還在她自己手上，這一行字在 4AD 這種老廠牌的目錄裡不算常見。曲序也有心思。十首歌，唯一一個掛名客串放在最後——〈I Wish (feat. The Maes)〉，三分鐘整，The Maes 是墨爾本的姐妹二人組。排在它前面的〈Walk On Me〉六分零三秒，是全碟最長的一首，於是最大的一段用完，專輯三分鐘就收。另外〈Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)〉是她少見的長句標題，括號裡那半句把前半句整個推翻。
Arlen Hlusko — Komorebi
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Classical · Solo Cello · Recital
- Label廠牌
- Tippet Rise
- Format介質
- Streaming / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-09-25
Twenty-one tracks of solo cello, with the Fifth Suite spread through them as scaffolding: Prelude first, Allemande fourth, Courante eighth, Sarabande eleventh, Gavottes fourteenth, Gigue twentieth, eleven living composers filling the gaps. Four of those gaps are improvisations, numbered and otherwise unnamed, running from 1:41 to 3:12, and they tell you more about how Hlusko hears the Bach than any of the written pieces do. The range of the rest is close to absurd — a Gabrielli Ricercar from around 1689, Tsintsadze's "Tchonguri" at 1:18, Reena Esmail's Tippet Rise commission "Sandhiprakash" at 9:02. Dirk Sobotka produced and Mark Donahue engineered, both from Soundmirror, and the credits list a sound designer separately, which on a solo cello release is a small statement of intent. 二十一軌的大提琴獨奏，巴赫第五組曲被拆成六段當骨架：前奏曲第一軌、阿勒曼德第四軌、庫朗特第八軌、薩拉邦德第十一軌、嘉禾舞曲第十四軌、吉格第二十軌，十一位當代作曲家的獨奏曲就夾在這些空隙裡。最能說明她怎麼聽這套組曲的，是第十五到十八軌那四段只編號不起名的〈Improvisation〉，最短一分四十一秒，最長三分十二秒。曲單的跨度大得有點離譜：1689 年前後 Domenico Gabrielli 的 Ricercar、Sulkhan Tsintsadze 的〈Tchonguri〉只有一分十八秒、Reena Esmail 受 Tippet Rise 委約的〈Sandhiprakash〉九分零二秒。錄音在蒙大拿的 Tippet Rise，製作 Dirk Sobotka、工程 Mark Donahue，兩人都來自 Soundmirror；credits 裡還單列了一位 sound design——大提琴獨奏專輯給聲音設計單獨掛名，這事很少見。
Light Conductor — Sequence Three
- Genre類型
- Ambient · Krautrock · Drone
- Label廠牌
- Constellation Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-09-25
Five tracks, and all the weight sits at the end: "Supercontinent" runs 14:41 while the other four fall between 6:38 and 7:51. That is a reasonable way to close a trilogy Stephen Ramsay and Jace Lasek have been building since 2019. The three sleeves fit together into one geometric figure; Ian Ilavsky, who co-founded Constellation, designed all of them. The vinyl is 180g with a 12" by 24" poster. 只有五首，而整張的重量全壓在最後一首：〈Supercontinent〉十四分四十一秒，前面四首落在六分三十八秒到七分五十一秒之間。這支蒙特婁二人組橫跨兩支老隊：Stephen Ramsay 來自 Young Galaxy，Jace Lasek 來自 The Besnard Lakes 並兼任混音。第三張就收工，三部曲到此結束，三張的封面拼起來才是一整塊幾何圖形，設計出自 Constellation 創辦人之一 Ian Ilavsky。180g 黑膠附一張 12 吋乘 24 吋的海報。
Cocco — ハナウムイ
- Genre類型
- Okinawan Folk · Singer-Songwriter · Ryukyuan Pop
- Label廠牌
- フーチバーレコーズ
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-09-23
Nine songs, two of them new: "カジマーイ" and "伊平屋じゅうてー." Everything else is Ryukyuan classical repertoire, Okinawan folk, or covers — Kina Shoukichi's "花" second, at 4:34, and at the end でいご娘's "艦砲ぬ喰ぇー残さー," 6:38, the longest track here and a song about the people the naval shelling did not kill. Sixth is her own "強く儚い者たち" from 1997, re-cut as "強く儚い者たち from okinawa," which is less a remake than a transfer of ownership. The title is Okinawan for 花想い. Hentona Naoko produced. 補記，9/23 上的。九首裡只有兩首是新寫的原創，〈カジマーイ〉與〈伊平屋じゅうてー〉，其餘全是琉球古典、沖繩民謠與翻唱：〈大田名節〉〈四季口説〉來自古典，〈うちなーワルツ〉是民謠，第二首是喜納昌吉的〈花〉四分三十四秒，收尾則是でいご孃的〈艦砲ぬ喰ぇー殘さー〉六分三十八秒，全碟最長的一首。最值得聽的是中間第六首：她把自己 1997 年的〈強く儚い者たち〉重錄成〈強く儚い者たち from okinawa〉，六分零四秒，等於把這首歌交還給那個地方。碟名「ハナウムイ」是沖繩語的「花想い」，廠牌是她自己的フーチバーレコーズ，聲音製作交給辺土名直子。
曾柏崴 — 無人注視的小小寂寞
- Genre類型
- Bedroom Pop · Dub · Acoustic
- Label廠牌
- 後空翻唱片 Rearflip Records
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-09-21
A dub pulse under an acoustic guitar and a close, unguarded vocal — that is the whole sound of this EP, and it is the part worth showing up for. Nineteen years old, a member of the Taipei band 倒數計時, first solo release, made entirely in his bedroom on a DAW configured to behave like a sixteen-track tape machine: the transport workflow, not a plug-in applied afterwards. Five songs, and the label page says plainly that the flaws were left in and that Elliott Smith is the debt being acknowledged. 補記，9/21 上的。木吉他彈唱底下墊著一條 dub 的節奏骨架，這是這張 EP 最好認的聲音。十九歲，樂團「倒數計時」的成員，第一張個人 EP，錄音全在自己房間完成，方法有點講究：用 DAW 去模擬十六軌磁帶錄音機的走帶流程，不是事後加噪點，而是把工作流本身搬回類比那一邊。五首：〈空白〉〈夏天的短詩〉〈十八〉〈感受〉〈Lost In Translation〉。廠牌頁上寫著這張 EP 選擇不修飾瑕疵，也明寫向 Elliott Smith 致意——配上十九歲這個數字讀起來不太一樣。
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