Daily Drops · Vol.188每日唱片 · Vol.188
Drones made from the X-ray spectra of rocks and bones, and not one synthesizer. 在香港住滿一個月，替盲人與無家者彈琴
Garefowl — Things That Vanish
- Genre類型
- Experimental · Folk · Field Recording
- Label廠牌
- AD 93
- Format介質
- Vinyl · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-02
The hum under this record was not played by anyone. Ewan Macdonald and his father Murdo took samples of rock and bone, ran them through X-ray diffraction, and mapped the peaks of the resulting spectra onto sine waves; those tones are the drones. Everything else came from the island: field recordings and hydrophone captures made at night on Hirta, the main island of St Kilda, with each piece assigned to one of the seabirds now under threat there, puffin, storm petrel and gannet among them. There is no synthesizer anywhere. Over the drones, Nathan Bontrager plays viol, Jess Whelligan cello, and Macdonald fiddle, plus the steady note of a smallpipe. The project's name is the old word for the great auk, and the family history behind it is blunt: the Macdonalds are related to the man who killed St Kilda's last one, in 1840. The label calls the record a way of facing that. Garefowl 是大海雀的古名。這個計畫由 Ewan Macdonald 和父親 Murdo 發起，兩人與 1840 年在 St Kilda 動手打死當地最後一隻大海雀的那個人有親屬關係，他們說做這張碟，是要正面面對這段家族史。父子倆把錄音帶回了 St Kilda 的主島 Hirta，而且挑在夜裡錄；每首曲子各自分給一種如今受威脅的海鳥，海鸚、風暴海燕、塘鵝都在裡面。全程沒有用合成器。素材是島上的田野錄音與水聽器錄音，而底下那層持續音的來路最讓人愣住：他們拿岩石與骨頭的樣本做 X 射線繞射分析，再把光譜的峰值換算成正弦波。維奧爾琴、小提琴、大提琴在上面走，小風笛只負責一個持續的低音，Ewan 兼拉小提琴。一隻鳥滅絕的地方，被拿來錄另一批鳥。
高井息吹（Takai Ibuki） — Wonder Tree
- Genre類型
- Singer-Songwriter · Chamber Pop · Jazz-Folk
- Label廠牌
- Camelopardalis
- Format介質
- CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-28
The singer and songwriter Kimishima Ozora once told Real Sound that years of playing beside the pianist Ibuki Takai were what made him want to sing himself. Here the debt is repaid in a small way: he plays guitar and adds harmony on "I see you." This is Takai's first full album since 2017, released on a label she set up for it, Camelopardalis, and recorded DIY at Taikimen's home studio in the mountains, with Taikimen arranging and playing percussion and vibraphone. One song, "In the silent woods," grew out of a trip to Finland; another, "little star," she arranged and mixed alone. The production details come from the label's announcement. 今天唯一準點落地的一張。上一張正式專輯是 2017 年的《世界の秘密》，隔了九年，她乾脆自己成立廠牌 Camelopardalis 來發這張。錄音在 Taikimen 山裡的自宅工作室用 DIY 的方式做完，Taikimen 同時負責編曲、打擊樂與顫音琴。〈In the silent woods〉來自她一趟去芬蘭找靈感的旅行；〈little star〉從編曲到混音都是她自己；〈I see you〉請君島大空彈吉他、唱和聲。說到君島大空，他 2019 年在 Real Sound 的專訪裡講過，正是長年替鋼琴手高井息吹伴奏的那段日子，讓他開始想自己唱歌。以上製作細節來自廠牌通稿。
Max Richter — While The Flood Rages
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Classical · Neo-Classical · Ballet
- Label廠牌
- Decca
- Format介質
- CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-16
The ballet took six years to reach a stage. Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM, drawn from Margaret Atwood's trilogy and co-produced by the National Ballet of Canada and the Royal Ballet, began in 2016, was meant to open in 2020, and finally did in Toronto in November 2022. Richter has now recut his score at Studio Richter Mahr so that, in his phrase, it makes sense just through listening. The finale, "Now We Can Sing," sets Atwood's own words. Ray Honeybourne at The Line of Best Fit hears orchestra and electronics converging and diverging, and gave it eight out of ten. This is the third Richter–McGregor collaboration after Infra and Woolf Works. 素材來自他替 Wayne McGregor 的芭蕾《MADDADDAM》寫的配樂。那齣舞改編自 Margaret Atwood 的末日三部曲，由加拿大國家芭蕾舞團與英國皇家芭蕾舞團合製，2016 年起步，原訂 2020 年首演，疫情一拖，到 2022 年十一月才在多倫多開幕。這張唱片在 Studio Richter Mahr 錄，他把舞劇素材拆開重排，用他的話說，是讓它光靠聽就能成立。終曲〈Now We Can Sing〉的詞直接取自 Atwood 原文。The Line of Best Fit 的 Ray Honeybourne 給了 8/10，他聽到的是樂團與電子聲部時而匯合、時而分開。
Filippo Gorini — Sonata for 7 Cities
- Genre類型
- Classical · Contemporary Classical · Solo Piano
- Label廠牌
- Live in Hong Kong
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-09
Each of Gorini's seven cities got a commission, and Hong Kong's was Beat Furrer's Studie IV, which opens this recital from City Hall before Brahms's Op. 116 and Schubert's D. 894. The project asks him to live in each place for a full month; in Hong Kong that meant playing for refugees, blind listeners and people without homes as well as teaching at two universities. Seven live albums and a documentary are planned. Gorini 的計畫是在七座城市各住滿一個月，維也納、開普敦、香港、波特蘭、波哥大、麥德林、米蘭，拒絕走馬看花的巡演。在香港那一個月，他替弱勢兒童、難民、視障者與無家者彈琴，也在演藝學院和浸會大學開大師班，最後在大會堂音樂廳開了這場獨奏會。七座城市各委約一位作曲家，香港站開場的 Beat Furrer《Studie IV》就是為這次駐留寫的，後面接勃拉姆斯 Op.116 與舒伯特 D.894。他拿過 Telekom-Beethoven 比賽冠軍與 Premio Abbiati，義大利《晚郵報》說他是 Pollini 的傳人。
連亞喆（Jett Lien） — And Another Lake
- Genre類型
- Indie Pop · Singer-Songwriter · Mandopop
- Label廠牌
- 時間機器 Time Machine Records
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-23
There are two lakes in British Columbia, one named Another Lake and one named And Another Lake, and the Taipei singer who fronts the band 心頭肉 (MindBodySoul) took the second for his first solo album. According to the label, it is also his first set of songs in Mandarin and the first record he has produced alone. Andy Baker mixed it; Metropolis in London mastered it. Everything I can find traces back to one press release, so his own account is still missing. 他是樂團心頭肉的主唱兼鍵盤手，這是第一張個人專輯。據廠牌的說法，他以前主要寫英文歌，這一張是第一次寫中文，也是第一次一個人擔起整張的製作。碟名來自加拿大卑詩省兩座真實存在的湖，一座叫 Another Lake，一座叫 And Another Lake。混音找了玉成戲院錄音室的 Andy Baker，母帶送到倫敦的 Metropolis。目前能讀到的素材全出自同一份通稿，他本人怎麼談這張，還沒看到。
Matt Carmichael — Held in the Dark
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Jazz · Folk-Jazz
- Label廠牌
- Porthole Music
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-16
A Scottish jazz saxophonist naming Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell and Big Thief as his reference points is less strange once you hear "red sky," which opens on acoustic guitar, fiddle and saxophone together. Fergus McCreadie is at the piano, Charlie Stewart on violin, and for the first time Carmichael brought in a co-producer, the Canadian songwriter Michelle Willis. Garry Boyle recorded it at Castlesound last December. The songs were written while someone close to him was ill. 這批曲子寫在他陪一位親人熬過長期病痛的那段時間。這也是他第一次找聯合製作人，找的是住在蘇格蘭的加拿大創作歌手 Michelle Willis，她合作過 David Crosby 與 Becca Stevens。2025 年十二月由 Garry Boyle 在 Castlesound 錄，鋼琴是 Mercury 獎入圍過的 Fergus McCreadie，小提琴 Charlie Stewart。他給的參照是 Big Thief、Joni Mitchell 與 Nick Drake，首曲〈red sky〉一開始就讓木吉他、小提琴和薩克斯一起進來。一支薩克斯手的爵士碟拿 Nick Drake 當座標，這件事本身已經說了不少。
more eaze — valley and structure
- Genre類型
- Experimental · Minimalism · Ambient
- Label廠牌
- Thrill Jockey
- Format介質
- CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-09
mari rubio has produced or arranged for claire rousay, Faye Webster and Wendy Eisenberg, and Eisenberg returns the favour on piano here, with Nora Stanley on saxophone, clarinet and flute. The idea is an old childhood discovery: hold the bass still and everything above it is free to change. "i'm in the structure" takes "the producer," from her previous record, strips it to the frame and turns it into dub, with a violin arpeggio carrying the fixed line. more eaze 是 mari rubio 的計畫，她平常在 claire rousay、Faye Webster、Wendy Eisenberg 的唱片裡做製作或編曲。這張的起點是一個童年發現：低音線固定不動的時候，上面的聲部可以自由換和聲。整張就圍著固定音型轉。〈i'm in the structure〉把前作裡的〈the producer〉拆到只剩骨架再做成 dub，那條不動的線改由小提琴琶音扛。Wendy Eisenberg 彈鋼琴，Nora Stanley 吹薩克斯、單簧管和長笛。這張我還在聽，再聽兩遍再說。
John Prine — Found Dogs
- Genre類型
- Americana · Folk
- Label廠牌
- Oh Boy Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-09
The Lake Marie demo alone justifies this one, by PopMatters' account. The outtakes come from the 1995 sessions for Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings: demos, alternate takes, solo versions, and three originals never released before. Oh Boy, the label Prine co-founded in 1981, put it out the day before what would have been his eightieth birthday. Oh Boy 是 Prine 1981 年參與創辦的廠牌，現在由遺孀 Fiona 和兒子們經營，他們把這張排在他八十歲冥誕的前一天。素材出自 1995 年《Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings》的錄音期，有 demo、替代錄音與獨奏版，其中〈World Without Love〉〈Dogs in Burlington〉〈My God Thank You John〉三首是首度面世的原創。PopMatters 的 Steve Horowitz 在前一首裡聽到 Springsteen 式的浪漫渴望，又特別點了〈Lake Marie〉那版 demo。
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