Daily Drops · Vol.185每日唱片 · Vol.185
Bill Doss made rough mixes in 2012. They became the overdubbers' permission slip. 創團大提琴手的最後一次錄音，是在臺上收的
The Olivia Tremor Control — The Same Place
- Genre類型
- Psychedelic Pop · Indie Rock · Experimental Pop
- Label廠牌
- Elephant 6 Recording Co.
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
Jason NeSmith, who produced this, did not begin with the music. He began by asking permission. First he got the blessing of Robert Schneider and Peter Erchick; then he sat down with Will Cullen Hart and Hart's wife, Kelly; then he went to see Amy Doss. Bill Doss had died on July 30, 2012, four days after a show at the Georgia Theatre that nobody knew would be the band's last, and the unfinished work sat on a hard drive in his studio. Hart died in November of 2024. What strikes me is how the dead man kept a vote. Doss had made rough mixes of much of the material, and John Kiran Fernandes, who plays winds and bass here, says that roughly ninety percent of his own overdubs for the record "had Bill's seal of approval" — meaning he followed those mixes, filling in inside lines someone else had already drawn. The overdubbers worked to a brief they could not negotiate. NeSmith's own account of the decision is flat and unanswerable: "Rather than pausing to grieve." The material reaches back further than the deaths do: Almstead dates several songs to Circulatory System around 2002, and Erchick says parts of "Now Begin" were written in 2007 and 2008. 這張碟有兩個作者都已經不在了。Bill Doss 2012 年 7 月 30 日死於動脈瘤，四十三歲，距離樂團在 Georgia Theatre 的那場演出只有四天，而那場後來成了他們最後一次現場。Will Cullen Hart 撐到 2024 年 11 月 29 日，心臟病，五十三歲。真正讓我停下來的是吹管手 John Kiran Fernandes 的說法：他為這張補的那些 overdub，約九成「有 Bill 的認可」——因為 Doss 生前把大量素材做成了粗混，他照著粗混走，等於是在一個死人畫好的框線裡填色。製作人 Jason NeSmith 的推進路徑也很具體：先拿到 Robert Schneider 與 Peter Erchick 的同意，再去跟 Hart 和妻子 Kelly 談，最後才去見 Doss 的妻子 Amy。他說當時大家選擇「Rather than pausing to grieve」，先把碟做完。素材本身橫跨得更遠，Derek Almstead 說有幾首是 2002 年在 Hart 的 Circulatory System 時期就在彈、當時沒被用上的；Erchick 說〈Now Begin〉有些詞寫於 2007 到 2008 年，裡面還留著一句佔位用的句子。裡頭有一組七段式的〈Path of the Parallels〉。
Hildur Guðnadóttir — This Will Be Us
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Classical · Neo-Classical · Modern Composition
- Label廠牌
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
Eight of these pieces come from Mount A (2006), Without Sinking (2009) and Saman (2014); two are new. Guðnadóttir's reason for going back is that Mount A turned twenty, which "felt like a good moment to pause." The interesting part is the direction of travel. When she made that first record her stated ambition was to involve other people as little as she could; this one she hands to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin entire, and the orchestrations are credited to the conductor, Robert Ames, and the players rather than to her. Teldex in February and April, with Francesco Donadello doing the engineering, mixing and mastering by himself. The cover is an Ólafur Elíasson work; the liner text she wrote with the film director Sarah Polley. A reunion with a younger self, arranged by committee, and the committee is very good. 這張的八首都是舊作重配：《Mount A》（2006）、《Without Sinking》（2009）、《Saman》（2014）裡的曲子交給管絃，另有兩首新寫。她自己的說法是《Mount A》滿二十年，到這個數字「felt like a good moment to pause」，於是把管絃版當成送給二十年前那個自己的禮物。有意思的是另一頭：做《Mount A》的時候她的目標是盡量少讓別人參與，而這張整個交給柏林德意志交響樂團，改編署名還是指揮 Robert Ames 與樂團，不是她自己配器。錄音在柏林 Teldex，今年 2 月與 4 月兩段，錄混母帶由 Francesco Donadello 一人包辦。封面是 Ólafur Elíasson 的作品《The purple sun for Hildur》，內頁文字她和導演 Sarah Polley 合寫。
William Basinski — Passing the Cup of Sorrows
- Genre類型
- Ambient · Modern Classical · Experimental
- Label廠牌
- Temporary Residence Ltd.
- Format介質
- Vinyl (New Gamboge / Black) · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
The title is borrowed, and worth repeating. Basinski came across a researcher working on out-of-body experience and past-life hypnosis, whose subjects described a stage between lives at which one can set down one's own pain and grief; the man called it passing the cup of sorrows. The record is a single continuous piano piece, which from a composer who has spent decades on tape loops and decay is a reversal of method rather than of mood. He cut it in his own living room — his engineer, Gary Thomas Wright, set him up there because the room has, in his words, "quite a wonderful sound" — played a few takes, and had it. He says it "came together fairly quickly," which is not how he usually works; normally he waits for a bit of magic or chance. The drawings are James Elaine's, two weeping flowers, done in books with ink and ballpoint pen. 碟名的來歷值得抄一遍。他讀到一個研究出體經驗與前世催眠的人，受試者描述「兩世之間」有一個階段，可以把自己的痛苦與悲傷卸下來交出去，那人把它叫做 passing the cup of sorrows。他直接拿來當專輯名。聲音上這張是個反轉：一個靠磁帶迴圈與衰變做了幾十年作品的人，這次是一首連續的鋼琴曲。錄的地方是他自己家的客廳——錄音師 Gary Thomas Wright 把他安置在那裡，因為那個房間「quite a wonderful sound」。他彈了幾條 take，很快就成形；他自己說這次「came together fairly quickly」，跟他平常要等一點機緣的習慣相反。美術是 James Elaine 的素描，兩朵垂泣的花，墨水加原子筆。
Takács Quartet & Timothy Ridout — Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516
- Genre類型
- Classical · Chamber · Period Repertoire
- Label廠牌
- Hyperion
- Format介質
- CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
這張是創團大提琴手 András Fejér 五十一年裡最後一次錄音露面。他是 1975 年創團陣容的最後一人，2025 年 12 月宣佈季末退休，接棒的 Mihai Marica 今年 9 月 1 日已經上任。他留下一句「After 51 years this feels like it's the right time.」錄音不在棚裡，是 2025 年 10 月在倫敦 Wigmore Hall 的音樂會上收的。曲目那邊也不輕鬆：兩首五重奏都寫於 1787 年，當時莫札特父親病重、摯友去世、被迫搬進更小的公寓，手抄本認購者湊不滿，Artaria 拖到 1789 與 1790 年才出版。封面用的是 Raoul Dufy 的《The Quintet》。
aus — mere meer
- Genre類型
- Ambient · Electronic · Sound Collage
- Label廠牌
- Squama（SQM046LP）／日本盤 p\*dis
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
Before he was a composer, Yasuhiko Fukuzono worked as a speech therapist, and he has watched patients with advanced dementia and aphasia recover words once a familiar melody was sung to them. That clinical fact governs how the voices on this record behave. The material is scavenged — fragments from social media, field recordings, his own voice processed past recognition — and during the years when he could not travel he stopped going to real places altogether, writing and playing melodies that imply a room or a street instead. "Every voice represents an encounter with a person, but it's also an encounter with a place," he says. The sea he is known for is assembled here out of electronic noise. Taylor Deupree mastered it. He runs flau in Tokyo and gave this one to Squama in Munich. aus（本名福瀧佳彥）做過言語聽覺師。他在臨床上見過重度失智與失語的患者：熟悉的旋律一唱出來，詞就被想回來了。這件事決定了整張碟怎麼處理人聲——素材來自社群媒體的片段、田野錄音，以及他自己被重度處理過的嗓音。移動受限的那幾年他不去錄真實場所，改成寫並演奏旋律去暗示一個想像中的房間或街道，他說「Every voice represents an encounter with a person, but it's also an encounter with a place.」他招牌的海這次是電子噪音人工搭的。母帶 Taylor Deupree，客座有 Purelink 的 kindtree 與豎琴手 Silver Ley。他自己主理東京的 flau，正盤卻交給慕尼黑的 Squama。
Tania Giannouli & Nik Bärtsch — METAKOSMOS
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Jazz · Chamber · Contemporary Classical
- Label廠牌
- Fuga Libera（FUG883）／錄音版權 Ronin Rhythm Productions
- Format介質
- CD · Vinyl (Limited Double) · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
Two grand pianos and nothing else, which is the whole production note. Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, reviewing it for Jazzhalo, found himself wondering during "Willow Wind" whether somebody was plucking strings inside the case, and during "Intonal" whether one of the instruments had been prepared; the cimbalom is a rhythmic reference point, not a member of the band. They recorded at the BASF Feierabendhaus in Ludwigshafen — a chemical company's staff clubhouse — on April 5 and 6 last year, mixed in Athens and mastered in Winterthur. Rainer Kern and the Enjoy Jazz festival started the project and the festival is credited as executive producer. The duo has only been playing together since 2023. 兩臺三角鋼琴，沒有第三件樂器。Jazzhalo 的評者聽 "Willow Wind" 時懷疑有人在琴箱裡撥弦，聽 "Intonal" 時懷疑其中一臺是預置鋼琴——匈牙利揚琴只是節奏來源的參照，不在編制裡。錄音地點是路德維希港 BASF Feierabendhaus，巴斯夫化工集團的職工活動中心，2025 年 4 月 5 到 6 日；混音在雅典，母帶在溫特圖爾。項目由 Rainer Kern 與 Enjoy Jazz 音樂節發起並支持，音樂節本身掛名執行製作，廠牌沒有參與發起。兩人直到 2023 年才開始以鋼琴二重奏同臺。
JP Harris's Dreadful Wind & Rain — Shaving a Dead Man
- Genre類型
- Old-Time · Traditional Folk · Appalachian
- Label廠牌
- Bloodshot Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl (Clear Smoke) · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
The studio is the story. Hunter Springs, in Greenville, West Virginia, was a workers' shack before Chance McCoy turned it into a room to record in, and Harris was one of the people who did the converting; only afterwards did he make Don't You Marry No Railroad Man there. Two men, two instruments: Harris sings and plays clawhammer five-string banjo, McCoy fiddles, harmonises and produces. Almost everything is traditional — "Say Darling Say" goes back to Ernest V. Stoneman in the 1920s, "The Three Babes" is tied to "The Wife of Usher's Well," "Poor Robin" to the Cock Robin rhyme — and "Sweet Talk" is the one thing Harris wrote. He left home at fourteen and spent a stretch off the grid in rural Vermont without power or running water, logging and doing carpentry, before Nashville and, eventually, curating for Newport Folk Festival and AmericanaFest. Alli Patton, writing in No Depression, hears heirlooms in it. I hear a man who knows how a floorboard sounds. 兩個人、兩件樂器：Harris 彈 clawhammer 五絃班卓並唱主聲部，Chance McCoy 拉小提琴並和聲，兼製作。地點在西維吉尼亞州 Greenville 的 Hunter Springs——當年把一間工人棚屋改成錄音棚，Harris 本人就參與了那次改建，後來才在那裡錄了 2021 年的《Don't You Marry No Railroad Man》。他十四歲離家，在佛蒙特鄉下過了一段沒電沒自來水的離網生活，靠伐木和木工活維生，2010 年前後才落腳 Nashville，後來做起 Newport Folk Festival 與 AmericanaFest 的策展。曲目幾乎全是傳統曲，只有〈Sweet Talk〉是他寫的；〈Say Darling Say〉能追到 Ernest V. Stoneman 1920 年代的錄音，〈The Three Babes〉連著英國敘事歌〈The Wife of Usher's Well〉。
阿克沃 — 裂縫之間
- Genre類型
- Alternative Rock · Emo · Mandarin Indie
- Label廠牌
- Black Market Music
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-20
Monday's catch-up, and a debut. The Taipei four-piece formed in 2020, and this first concept album is the first time they have worked with outside producers. Their drummer, 羿璿, went in with an inflamed foot, practised in a brace, and laid down the whole record's drums in two days. I want to hear it again before deciding whether the new polish helps them. 補記這張，是因為它的 credit 寫的幾乎都是身體。2020 年在臺北成立的四人團，首張概念專輯。主唱晨昊寫〈他〉的詞是在 2025 年服兵役期間，利用操課空檔記在隨身的小筆記本上，寫的是離別與遺憾；鼓手羿璿推這首，說歌詞道出亞洲家庭對愛難以言說的共鳴，往往只剩「吃飽沒？」「多穿點」。羿璿自己錄音前夕腳部發炎，戴著護具每天苦練六小時以上，兩天內把全輯鼓組錄完。吉他手伯儒為了〈復燃〉和〈無風無雨也無晴〉，彈到雙手發麻無力。曾拿下政大金旋獎的〈透明〉，初期 demo 因風格陌生與動態落差過大險被放棄，後期加進鋼琴才留下來。團員說過去多是宅錄，這次第一次有專業製作團隊在旁邊。
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