[Takagi Masakatsu|Eating 2]食依然很快樂

Artist：Takagi Masakatsu
Album：Eating 2
Release Date：2003-08-04
Label：Karaoke Kalk
Country：Japan
Genre： Electronic
Style： Ambient, Abstract, Experimental

Tracklisting:

01		Early Summer (1:28)
02		Casa Blanca (4:29)
03		Botanica (3:06)
04		Wolcalosso (2:07)
05		Trinidad Bird (3:48)
06		Gelnia (2:59)
07		Bounce (2:28)
08		Ice Shadow (2:26)
09		Venetian Red (4:16)
10		Enceol (4:29)
11		Cerulean (2:31)
12		Shing Morno (2:06)
13		Guinacridone (1:47)
14		Joy (3:51)

簡介。。。。。。

Almost as a perfect segue out of Murcof, could come visual and musical artist Takagi, with the second instalment in his 'Eating' series. Opening with a sole oboe, branching into the pizzicato strings, plush piano and almost synthetic steel drum riddim of 'casa Blanca', this is a poetic beginning to an album bound to be received well by admirers of Masakatsu's first excursion. 'Botanica' has all the muted jazz appeal you could wish for, xylophones and breathy chording with a cheeky celeste, 'Wolcalasso' reveling in its more jaunty, edited classical feel. 'Trinidad bird' seals the equatorial associations of this album, a wonderful bass vamp and one of the very finest cuts here. Again, the music is ripe with pure associative qualities, allowing room for the all important imaginative space. 'Gelnia' could be one of the most relentlessly cheery numbers you could hear all year, yet this is balanced by a quite gorgeous, almost modal styled jazzual 'Bounce', down in tempo but not in heart. 'venetian red' implements some nifty keys, As a video artist, Masakatsu works with images and sounds in combination, most recently with the fashion designer Agnes B for his video installation and dvd release "light park". As ever, there's an advertising vulture waiting to snaffle the resonant melodic shapes of this finely tuned album, make sure to sneak in before someone has their wicked way with it, for this is a tender, well meant and gloriously enriching listen. Highly Recommended.(from boomkat)

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.0/10

有了上一次的經驗，這次在聼eating2的時候，找過來些平時最愛的食物，徹徹底底地享受一把生活的單純美好。居然才發現音樂和食物原來是這麽搭調的一對，把二者糅合在一起真是好有生活氣息啊。兩張都喜歡，如果非要比一比的話，我似乎更喜歡前者。eating2擁有更多的甜美與現代，eating則似乎顯得更自然質樸一些。如果說eating是沁人心脾的清茶的話，那麽eating2就是濃郁飃香的咖啡。如果說eating是清淡可口的sushi的話，那麽eating2就是可愛香甜的蛋糕。

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[Takagi Masakatsu|Eating]吃是快樂

Artist：Takagi Masakatsu
Album：Eating
Release Date：2002
Label：Karaoke Kalk
Country：Japan
Genre： Electronic
Style： Abstract, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1		Frousfre (2:27)
2		Fore (2:48)
3		Spring (3:26)
4		Fausel (2:51)
5		Flows (2:30)
6		Mihyn (3:29)
7		Angje (5:49)
8		Hanri (2:18)
9		Woei (1:41)
10		Trot (1:38)
11		On The Way To (3:37)
12		Kim Perno (1:21)
13		Come March (3:16)

簡介。。。。。。

Takagi is known to us from visual collaborations with one of our current idols, Aoki Taskamasa on his dvd for the marvellous Progressive Form label from Japan. There’s something of the short film at work here, on this fine album for the unmissable Karaoke Kalk. Perfect, yet somehow open ended short pieces work in the same way as vignettes, suggesting time before and after with great aplomb. Never do you feel that these beautiful, sonorous pieces are unfinished, instead each sidles into your consciousness, like small flowers seen on a country walk. There’s acoustic elements aplenty, with pizzicato strings, wooden marimba tones, hopeful modal keys, muted horns, starkly beautiful accordion sounds, atop twinkling keys, all forming a cohesive and beautiful whole. This undemonstrative album is supremely persuasive, from its own wayside point of view. Impossibly fresh and hugely impressive, this will no doubt be one of the finest albums this year for your reviewer, and hopefully some of you out there as well. Essential music to warm the heart.(from boomkat)

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.2/10

高木在德國厰牌Karaoke Kalk發行的一張專輯，我喜歡這個專輯名字eating，因爲這是我最愛做的事情。哈哈。之後還發行了一張eating 2，改天再分享。節奏舒緩卻愉悅，鮮明跳動的電音，帶給人們很好的心情，一張溫暖人心的好專輯。各種豐富的配器一併滑落，像泉水般清涼舒爽。再配上一些孩子追逐打鬧、嬉戲玩耍的童聲，就更加富有生活氣息。非常可愛，感覺生活真美好。如果生活真的能夠如此不停地吃好吃的東西，聼好聽的音樂就好了。hoho。

去豆瓣上看看。。。。。。
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[Múm|The Peel Session]果皮樂園

Artist：Múm
Album：The Peel Session
Release Date：2006-12-04
Label：FatCat Records
Country：Iceland
Genre： Electronic, Rock
Style： Lo-Fi, Post Rock

Tracklisting:

1		Scratched Bicycle / Smell Memory (5:34)
2		Awake On A Train (7:58)
3		Now There Is That Fear Again (3:57)
4		The Ballad Of The Broken String (3:56)

簡介。。。。。。

*Back In Stock* Mum only ever recorded one session for John Peel's BBC Radio One show, and here it is in its completeness. Dating back to October 2002, the four tracks here span the gap between the albums Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK and their breakthrough release, Finally We Are No One. 'Scratched Bicycle/Smell Memory' opens the session, and takes the form of a remixed medley of the two songs referenced in the title. It's a welcome reminder of the band's roots as purveyors of first rate warm, crunchy electronics and hints at their later work, integrating melodic acoustic instrumentation with laptop sound processing. 'Now There Is That Fear Again' (the only track here to be lifted from Finally We Are No One) provides the clearest indication of the more expansive, Mum sound that we know them for today. Complete with Kristín Anna Valtsdóttir's breathy, childlike vocals and dramatic staccato strings, it's an essential alternate version of one of the band's key songs. A great stop-gap that comes with a hearty, icelandic recommendation.(from boomkat)

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.0/10

Múm06年發行的一張EP，4個track。Múm我想不用多介紹了，這張EP個人比較喜歡，它的封面純真可愛，音樂則更複雜一些，不單單只有純真可愛、歡快愉悅的成分，還有沉重、幽暗、冰冷、恐懼。。。值得反復聆聽。

去豆瓣上看看。。。。。。
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[VA|the Music from Beautiful Spain]來自伊比利亞的美麗聲音

Artist：Various Artists
Album：the Music from Beautiful Spain
Release Date：2005
Label：Avant Garden Records
Country：Spain
Genre： Folk
Style：Folk，Indie，Pop

Tracklisting：
　　01. But for love-Anna Felix
　　02. Metti una sera a cena-Malabella
　　03. Who needs you-Delia Caprice
　　04. Kinky love-Rita Calypso
　　05. It’s hard to say goodbye-Rita Calypso
　　06. Mejor-Nosotrash
　　07. Parentesis-Portonovo
　　08. Boule de flipper-Souvenir
　　09. Si fuimos-Entre Rios
　　10. Hidden in the park-Pipas
　　11. "A red, red rose"-Camera Obscura
　　12. Universo(acoustic)-Niza
　　13. B.W.-Zola
　　14. "Buenos dias ,corazon"-Le Mans
　　15. Va el amor-Ana D

簡介。。。。。。
繼之前發行的兩張轟動全台現在都已絕版的合輯(美麗西班牙2004 & 夢幻歌謠仙境之聲2005) 創下了六萬張的銷售量之後
再次推出美麗西班牙2005合輯
　　
收錄藝人簡介 :　

V.A/Don Quijote 西班牙傳奇首部曲 / 唐吉柯德
　　西班牙的Siesta廠牌，以「唐吉柯德」為名發表了"西班牙傳奇三部曲"的首部曲，除歌頌唐吉柯德他的勇敢情操外，並鼓勵大家，當理想和現實發生衝突，不要輕易放棄，夢想往往比想像中更有力量 　　

Rita Calypso/Sicalyptico 芮塔小姐/幸福快樂的生活
　　描繪都會女子脆弱卻又敏感的寂寞思緒！地中海的Bossa Nova新天后Rita Calypso用輕柔耳語、夢幻般的呢喃，融合了小野麗莎的清新爽朗、諾拉瓊絲的爵士風情與木匠兄妹式的感人民謠
　　
Nosotrash/Popemas Nosotrash樂團
　　Nosotrash歌聲帶點香頌氣氛，但加了檸檬調味。那種可愛聰慧迷人的樣子，不禁讓人聯想到如果「艾蜜莉的異想世界」中那個可愛女主角開口唱歌的話大抵就是這個樣子
　　
Portonovo / En aquellos tiempos siempre era fiesta
　　一個陽光閃動、微風拂面、光影交錯的世界；在此，心靈隨著音樂的流動逐漸澄澈了起來，到達一種令人身心舒暢到彷彿可以展翼飛翔的境界
　　
Souvenir /Des equilibres
　　西班牙風情+法語的浪漫 Souvenir是無國界的陽光、微風。淺酸淺甜，都是一派冰涼沁口
　　
Entre Rios/Sal 石頭三姊妹樂團/感傷
　　布宜諾斯艾利斯，攝氏零度的聲音‧一個激盪王家衛想像的地方，世界彼端最最新鮮的聲響。
　　Entre Rios飄渺的氛圍、縈繞耳腔的悠揚旋律在電子音效的襯托下，顯出既疏離又親密的感受
　　
Pipas--《Golden Square》
　　一種生命中難得的幸福體驗 翩然起舞的愉悅氛圍 Pipas的音樂彷彿一場甜美夢境般令人流連
　　
Camera Obscura/Keep it Clean 暗房樂團/清淨 (05年六月底即將發行敬請期待)
　　由Belle & Sebastian團長Stuart所挖掘出來的樂團Camera Obscura是現今最具復古典雅色彩的美麗女聲，女主唱的歌聲在輕盈中帶有深刻感性，色彩鮮明的嗓音映照出繽紛幻變的世間景象
　　
Niza/Topolino 妮莎樂團(05年六月底即將發行敬請期待)
　　西班牙的陽光Bossa Nova、清爽俐落的夏日質感。niza女主唱甜美輕柔的嗓音有著不言可喻的輕快魅力。這專輯收錄了Niza的所有絕版單曲，以及最具收藏價值的VU翻唱曲Femme Fatale
　　
Zola/Siete Maletas Zola樂團/帶著七隻皮箱去旅行
　　浪跡天涯的最佳良伴！！Zola的音樂，簡樸中帶有纖細、活潑中帶有敏感、略酸的甜味，百嘗不厭。甜美無比的嗓音 + 層次分明、卻又清爽簡單的襯樂；帶點爵士情調，洋溢著雞尾酒香和海洋的味道
　　
Ana D/Recordando 安娜D
　　西班牙導演阿莫多瓦的最愛! Ana D的歌曲啟發了阿莫多瓦創作"悄悄告訴她"的劇本。Ana D深沉而感性的嗓音唱出讓音樂老饕無可挑剔的經典，將你的五臟六脯燙的平平貼貼

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：7.5/10

來自西班牙的清新美麗的聲音，不可多得好專輯，發行于臺灣前衛花園。從這張專輯知道了這些以前沒有聽説過的好聲音，有幾個track真是好聽。像陽光照在身上溫暖感覺，整個人都被鑲上閃閃的金邊，很美好。

去豆瓣上看看。。。。。。
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[The Franciscan Hobbies|Walls Are Stuck]迷墻

Artist：The Franciscan Hobbies
Album：Walls Are Stuck
Release Date：2005
Label：Music Fellowship
Country：US
Genre： Rock
Style： Folk Rock, Acoustic, Experimental

Tracklisting:

1		The Modern Revival (0:49)
2		Elijah The Stone (2:30)
3		Satan Crystals (4:58)
4		Empty Hands (1:00)
5		Goat With The Dolphin Face (3:09)
6		The Happy Burial (2:51)
7		Placing Of The Flowers (2:28)
8		Asmodeus (9:14)
9		Lake Of Holy Fishes (4:22)
10		Death Music (4:47)
11		The Etheric Double (5:11)

簡介。。。。。。

This album from Jewelled Antler offshoot The Franciscan Hobbies (who include Thuja folks Loren Chasse and Glen Donaldson among their ranks, along with Ov and Softwar stalwart Christine Boepple and countless others) is one of my favourites to come both from the Music Fellowship label and from the JA world itself. A movement such as this can seem somewhat impenetrable with so many side projects and offshoots, but 'Walls Are Stuck' would be a fantastic place to start, showing the kind of submerged other-worldly avant-folk the collective would become branded with. It doesn't really fit into any 'proper' genre either; using tape recordings, field recordings, electronic and acoustic instruments and all sorts of peculiar percussion the Franciscan Hobbies create music that sounds out of time entirely. Take 'Satan Crystals' for example; this beautiful zither-led piece could be the soundtrack to a documentary about forest life, but then there's something slightly too dark, something slightly too lo-fi for public consumption, and that's what makes it so special to me. This is music made for the few, and we can take it close to our hearts and enjoy it in the comfort of our own rooms, it is music to be listened to in total seclusion and total loneliness, in a place where you can allow yourself the room to conjure up images of moonlit lakes and blustering leaves, shadowy cliffs and long-forgotten treasures. 'Walls Are Stuck' is the sort of music that magic is made of, both fantastical and deeply grounded at the same time, giving us fact and fiction within the strings of so many unusual instruments. If Narnia existed then The Franciscan Hobbies would no doubt be found there - that's how beautifully mysterious this music is. One for fans of Fonal desperate to find further wooded explorations into haunting freeform folk music... essential purchase!(from boomkat)

"The Hobbies have been known to put this into practice by taking their junk folk-instruments, boomboxes & mini-discs outside, gathering in canyons, creek beds, backyards, and on porches & beaches. The Franciscan Hobbies are part of the expansive Jewelled Antler forest of bands & projects."

"The second album from this satellite of San Franciscos Jewelled Antler Collective is packed full of earth mystery, permeated by the smell bone fires and vegetative rites. The sound of rust-caked acoustic guitar and banjo dominates, while the ripple of earthworked gongs, tremulous sitar and percussion makes this the perfect soundtrack to a version of The Wicker Man performed by a group of California heads." - The Wire."

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.5/10

作爲Fonal的粉絲應該也聼一聼這張專輯，其中有Thuja的Loren Chasse、Glen Donaldson等人。他們Lo-fi的手法以及豐富奇異的配器使用使專輯充滿著神秘的古代氣息和北歐民謠的清冷氣質，好像身処刻滿滄桑的古老城堡又像走在杳無人煙的幽深森林，從第一曲The Modern Revival古老神秘的原始氣息就撲面而來，真的好酷、韻味好迷人。很難得的一張專輯，強烈推薦，但建議一定要在一個人的時候聼。呵呵。這是一張孤獨的專輯，我想一定要是耐得住寂寞的人才懂得欣賞。
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