Daily Drops · Vol.040每日唱片 · Vol.040
What floats in after the Friday tide 週二，本來不該有什麼大事發生。但上週五那波新樂衝下來後，散落在邊緣的幾張反而最值得停下來聽。今天六張，從柏林到德州，從避免被識別的二重奏鋼琴到 Gerard Way 跑去客串死亡金屬——週二也可以有故事。
Dumama — Towards An Expanse
- Genre類型
- Electroacoustic / Future Folk / Ambient
- Label廠牌
- Soundway / Stranger Than Paradise (digital + LP)
- Format介質
- Vinyl LP / CD / Digital
- Released發行
- 2026-05-08
The Berlin-via-Cape-Town songwriter Dumama released her first full-length solo album last Friday, and Bandcamp gave it Album of the Day on Monday — the kind of after-the-fact endorsement that suggests editors needed a minute to absorb it. The record's geography is a long sentence: written in Port Alfred and Cape Town, first recorded in New York in 2019, then put through a six-year process of being "crystallized" in Berlin and finally reimagined in Johannesburg by Nandi Ndlovu. That itinerary is also the method. Gospel passages give way to a kind of left-field electronics that doesn't read as electronic music so much as a long exhalation. The album's intellectual scaffolding — Black ontologies of circular time — could easily curdle into a press-release sentiment, but Dumama writes inside the idea rather than around it. The opener whispers in your ear. By the closer, you've stopped checking the clock. Berlin-based South African 聲音詩人的首張個人專輯。Bandcamp Album of the Day（5/11）。遊走於福音、左場電子、未來民謠與環境音之間，開篇的低吟邀請聽者沿著"圓形時間"的非洲存有論展開一段精神冒險。
Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford — Katarahi
- Genre類型
- Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Improvisation / Piano Duo
- Label廠牌
- RogueArt
- Format介質
- CD / Digital
- Released發行
- 2026-05-08
Two pianists who haven't recorded a duo since 2007 (the year of Under the Water) finally went back into a room together — or, more accurately, onto a stage at the 2024 Leibnitz Jazz Festival. The new record is their second-ever duo album and the first thing you notice is what isn't on it: the liner notes refuse to identify who plays which piano on which track. Fujii and Melford asked their label to leave that out. They swap pianos throughout, and the point of the exercise is that the listener cannot say, even reflexively, "this is the Japanese hand, this is the American one." Melford wrote four pieces; Fujii wrote three. Once they start, the authorship dissolves anyway. The title is a Japanese word for the kind of private conversation only intimate friends have. The record argues that two pianos can do that better than you'd think. 日美兩位即興鋼琴家自2007年《Under the Water》以來的第二張二重奏，2024年Leibnitz爵士節現場錄音。Melford 寫 4 首、Fujii 寫 3 首，兩人現場交換鋼琴，刻意不標明誰坐在哪一架——希望兩個聲音聽起來像一個意識在自言自語。"Katarahi"在日語裡是親密好友之間的促膝長談。
Chris Potter — Alive With Ghosts Today
- Genre類型
- Contemporary Jazz / Chamber Jazz
- Label廠牌
- Edition Records
- Format介質
- 2LP Gatefold (250 copies 限定雙黑膠含兩首 bonus) / LP / CD / Digital
- Released發行
- 2026-05-08
Chris Potter is a saxophonist whose technique has occasionally outrun his interest in form, but Alive With Ghosts Today is the most disciplined writing project he's released in over a decade. The premise is hard to summarize without sounding inflated: eight pieces tracing John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, scored for a chamber ensemble built around Potter's tenor and soprano with Bill Frisell on guitar, Sara Caswell on violin, Rane Moore on clarinet, and Zekkereya El-Magharbel on trombone. The instrumentation isn't a quartet stretched into an octet — it's a different kind of grammar altogether, closer to chamber music than to any post-bop lineage, and the writing reflects that. Copland's open-air harmony shows up alongside a gospel bent and rhythmic phrases that come from West Africa rather than the bebop tradition. Edition Records has pressed it as a 250-copy double-vinyl gatefold with two bonus tracks; the regular LP has eight. Frisell, as ever, plays as if listening to the room before he picks up the guitar. 薩克斯/單簧管演奏家 Chris Potter 集結 Bill Frisell（guitar）、Burniss Travis（bass）、Nate Smith（drums）、Rane Moore（clarinet）、Zekkereya El-Magharbel（trombone）、Sara Caswell（violin），以 1859 年 John Brown 在 Harpers Ferry 突襲事件為概念藍本寫就的八段室內樂敘事。Copland 式的開闊加上福音、布魯斯與非洲節奏，繃得很緊。
Yvonne Rogers — The Button Jar
- Genre類型
- Jazz / Solo Piano / Contemporary
- Label廠牌
- Pyroclastic Records (Kris Davis 主理)
- Format介質
- CD / Digital
- Released發行
- 2026-05-08
A solo piano debut from a Brooklyn-based pianist who, until recently, was mostly known to other improvisers. Rogers grew up in rural Maine "without the distraction of even a television" (her phrasing), and the record carries the kind of inwardness that biography would predict. The fourteen pieces were extrapolated from short improvisations she had posted to social media and never intended to develop. Kris Davis, who runs Pyroclastic Records, talked her into it. The range is wide: minimalist openers, complex polymetric stretches, passages that flirt with avant-ragtime, sudden pivots into structures borrowed from twentieth-century classical writing. None of it announces itself. The album is a 2024 Next Jazz Legacy Award winner getting her first proper introduction — and what's striking is how little it sounds like a debut. 布魯克林鋼琴家 Yvonne Rogers 的首張個人專輯，14 首作品在嚴密的對位與孩童式的發現之間遊走。原始素材是她發在社交媒體上的小段即興，Kris Davis 鼓勵她將這些"用完即丟"的靈感發展成完整作品。2024 Next Jazz Legacy Awardee。
Frozen Soul — No Place of Warmth
- Genre類型
- Death Metal
- Label廠牌
- Century Media Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl LP / CD / Digital
- Released發行
- 2026-05-08
The Texas death-metal band's third album would have been a competent step forward on its own — Josh Schroeder produced, the hooks are sharper, the gloom is thicker. What pushes it into more interesting territory is the guest list. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance turns up on the title track in what is plausibly the most sinister vocal performance of his career; Robb Flynn from Machine Head is on "Invoke War"; Devin Swank from Sanguisugabogg makes a cameo. None of this reads as a stunt, because the record itself doesn't depend on the names. Blabbermouth gave it a 9/10 and called it "mercilessly heavy, ruthlessly precise and bulging with hooks." Frozen Soul has been touring relentlessly for years and earning their crowd the slow way; this is the record that should make the crowd much larger. 德州死亡金屬新銳第三張，製作 Josh Schroeder（Lorna Shore），客座陣容意外搶眼：My Chemical Romance 的 Gerard Way 在同名曲做了他迄今最陰沉狠戾的一次嘶吼，Machine Head 的 Robb Flynn 在 "Invoke War" 現身。Blabbermouth 給 9/10。死亡金屬裡少有的鉤子密集。
gyrofield — Your Fight
- Genre類型
- Experimental Electronic / Industrial / Drum & Bass-adjacent
- Label廠牌
- Field Research (藝人自主廠牌首發 FR001)
- Format介質
- Digital
- Released發行
- 2026-05-06
香港出生、現駐倫敦的實驗電子製作人 Kiana Li 創立自己的廠牌 Field Research，首發是這張三軌 EP。傾向工業化的緊繃俱樂部音色——"World In A Cat's Claw"、"Digestion"、"Goat With The Red Tooth"。她說這是關於"奪回控制權"的聲明。