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Piana -- Snow Bird

「感覺像是孩童素描簿或日記的美妙歌曲明顯有些懷舊感傷,並渲染力極強地勾勒出情緒上時而淚汪汪,時而喜悅、憂懼的童真世界...讓人聯想到Pop-Off Tuesday和Cocteau Twins最令人怦然心動的漂浮、純真sampladelia風格。」

"Coming across as a child's sketchbook or diary, there is a palpable sense of nostalgia in these lovely songs, powerful and moving evocations of a kid's world that vary in tone from the tearful to the joyful to the fearful... The songs recall both the unsettling, naive sampladelia of Pop-Off Tuesday and Cocteau Twins at their heartstopping best."

-- The Wire #238, 2003/12

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「...流行音樂(或說,Piana的流行音樂)意在傳達情感...而就這方面Snow Bird有多成功呢?大多時候,非常成功。聽每一首歌時,我都能驚鴻一瞥地體驗到這位年輕女性細膩、柔美的心...。」

"... pop music (or, at least, this pop music) is about communicating emotions to listeners ... How effective is Snow Bird at doing this? For the most part, it's very effective. I can't go through a single song here without experiencing a glimpse into this young woman's delicate, beautiful heart..."

-- Michael Heumann (Stylus Magazine 2003/12/05)
 

 
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Fennesz -- Venice

 "Thanks in part to that emotional heft, I have a feeling that long after many of the experimental electronic records from the past ten years disappear, we'll continue to reach for the works of Fennesz."

-- Mark Richardson (Pitchfork 2004/04/01)

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「他用戶外實地錄音與多層次的抽象處理讓整張專輯宛如是從深海發出的深浩巨響,全張是非具象的電子聲響與嘶嘶的噪音構成,但即使是噪音,這些噪音聽來卻充滿了詩樣的美感,細訴著創作者對這座城市的情感。」

-- Ricardo (破報第308期,2004/5/6)

 

 
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Alva Noto + 坂本龍一 -- Vrioon

The Wire雜誌 2003 Electronica 類別年度專輯

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「每當鋼琴的殘響如在棉紙上泛化開的水墨筆觸時,Noto的量子節奏便如同是細緻的點畫法一般,妝點出整張畫面的平衡感與力道...。空間與聲音的共振,光影與寧靜的輝映。《Vrioon)實為當代尖端實驗音樂的發展,立下另一個可供思索玩味的奠基石。」

-- Ricardo(破報第282期2003/10/24
 

 
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I'm Not a Gun -- Everything at Once
「樂句樣式的不斷重複引出旋律的幻化,而藉由這樣緊實的對換手法,便交織出一幅如都會般的脈動...」

-- Ricardo (破報第309期2004/04/09)

 

 
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Kazumasa Hashimoto -- Yupi
「...聆聽全曲[encyclopedic landscape]就像是進入一個由機械及自然物共同創造的美麗新世界...所有的曲子都彷彿是浸淫在一種漂浮的狀態,鮮艷、生動如天上人間,卻又宛如不可觸碰的奇珍異草。在清醒與寤寐之間,在每一個捲曲的花蕊裡私語。」

-- Ricardo(破報第286期2003/11/24

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「...通篇摒除明顯節拍並且倚重原音樂器的鋪排,源源不絕的印象化鋼琴低吟悄聲流過每一個句點,圍繞著蟲鳴鳥叫卻不沾半點俗套,隱沒入終曲同時亦是標題曲的yupi全程一氣呵成,純是舒闊怡然的聽覺洗禮...可以篤定kazumasa hashimoto比時下陷在軟體程式設計的玩家們多了那股澄淨的靈性。」

-- risette轉載自543音樂站J-music

 

 
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2 by Bukowskyi -- Drink from My Bastard Grail
「...這第二張專輯...開場與結尾都如洞穴中倒掛的蝙蝠般暗喻了他們其實潛藏著騷亂闇黑的重金屬內在...然而鋼琴往覆的漫步,合成器鋪陳的底色與吉他綿長的震波,穿插著人聲破碎的唸白,卻構成一處更具Ambient風格、甚或幾乎是"偶有噪音的[Big Blue]配樂"...」

--  小樹(破報第274期2003/08/29

 

 

 

 
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GNU -- Suro

「...低調地充滿原創性,演奏具說服力而優雅...」

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Takagi Masakatsu -- Eating 2

「...高木在實驗素材的拿捏上抓得恰好, 亦不會故作艱澀,音質通透澄澈,雕工細緻, 構築出一個舒適悅耳又不失深度的聽覺空間...整張eating 2仍是延續eating裡深淺適中的純音樂路線, 加入大量由鍵琴模擬出的原音器樂音色,更添加了有機性的溫婉光澤。 高木的音樂或許就如同在抹茶與和果子間蘊含著的那股微妙平衡作用 ,恬淡中靜靜逸出深遠涵義,越陳越香。 」

-- risette轉載自543音樂站J-music