日本著名的歌唱名伶矢野显子，「教授」扳本龙一的前妻，自70年代即以民谣歌手的身份誉载东瀛，其富含文学意境的创作，屡次获得日本乐坛的高度的评价。矢野显子在融合古典、爵士、民谣的恬淡声线中，营造出内涵深刻、旋律素雅的人文气息。

Chrystia Cabral gives her old highlights new studio arrangements, lending them the immediacy and clarity of live versions.

Have You In My Wilderness is Julia Holter’s most intimate album yet, a collection of radiant ballads. Her follow-up to 2013’s widely celebrated Loud City Song explores love, trust, and power in human relationships. While love songs are familiar fodder in pop music, Holter manages to stay fascinatingly oblique and enigmatic on her new album.
Have You in My Wilderness is also Holter’s most sonically intimate album. Here, she and producer Cole Marsden Greif-Neill lift her voice out of the layers of smeared, hazy effects, putting her vocals front and center in the mix. The result is striking—it sounds as if Holter is singing right in your ear. It sounds clear and vivid, but also disarmingly personal. The focused warm sound and instrumentation — dense strings, subtle synth pads — adds to the effect.
Like Holter’s previous albums, Have You in My Wilderness is multi-layered and texturally rich, featuring an array of electronic and acoustic instruments played by an ensemble of gifted Los Angeles musicians.
Have You In My Wilderness deals with dark themes, but it also features some of the most sublime and transcendent music Holter has ever written. The ten songs on the album are shimmering and dreamlike, wandering the liminal space between the conscious and the subconscious.

很多人都将Jim O'Rourke视为实验音乐的奇才，到今天（1999年）他才29岁，但已发行了10张大碟，与其他艺术家们的合作更是不计其数，看看下面这个“恐怖”的“黑名单”吧（先深呼吸一下）：Henry Kaiser, Illusion of Safety, John Oswald, Christoph Heemann, John Duncan, Voice Crack, Eddie Prévost, Kazuyuki Null, Louis Moholo, Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Hugh Davies, Keith Rowe以及David Jackman, 当然，这只是其中的一小部分。他的唱片所涉及的领域之广也算一绝：guitar improvisation, musiqueconcréte, 甚至还有与传统器乐乐队的合作。他可能是唯一一位既为诸如Extreme和Staalplaat这样的厂牌录制唱片又帮Kronos Quartet和the RovaSaxophone Quartet作曲的音乐家，但如果你知道他是怎样的一个谦逊而雅致的家伙的话，这一切其实并不重要。Jim O'Rourke在DePaul University取得作曲系学士学位，这种背景与那些偶尔拿出来与他相比较的post-industrial团体们显然很不一样。他的表演生涯是从1987年于Chicago开始的，那时他是The Elvis Messiahs这个团体的成员之一，按照Please Join Us杂志的说法，这个团玩的是噪音式的戏剧风格的自由即兴，经常演出，并和Nicolas Collins及Jack Wright之类的怪物搞在一起。

Destroyer, the wordy, glammed-up project led by New Pornographer Dan Bejar, will release their ninth album, Kaputt, on January 25 via Merge.
In a press release, Bejar lists off 22 things we might want to know about the album.
Bejar: "Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango in Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what's to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… The LinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…"