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艺术家：Emi Makabe（马gabe惠美）
作品名称：《Echo》（回声）
发行年份：2025年
厂牌：Sunnyside
音乐类型：爵士乐
音质：FLAC 24位/96千赫兹；16位/44.1千赫兹；MP3 320千比特率
总时长：45分58秒
总大小：107；254；950兆字节
官网：专辑预览
曲目列表：
1. 《The Birthday Song》（生日歌）
2. 《Morisan》（森山）
3. 《Mu》（无）
4. 《Dignity》（尊严）
5. 《Snow》（雪）
6. 《Scape》（遁逃）
7. 《Text》（文本）
8. 《Letter》（信件）
9. 《Echo》（回声）
10. 《Overture》（序曲）
专辑介绍：
“回声”（Echo）一词在不同文化中回响各异：奥维德《变形记》中，山林女神厄科被诅咒只能重复他人话语；阿拉伯语中“صَدَى”（ṣadā）意为“回声、共鸣”，深含思念与记忆。旅居于布鲁克林的日裔作曲家、人声歌手、三味线演奏家与教育家Emi Makabe，则被日语中的“ekō”所吸引——“发音与英文相同，但意为‘为逝者祈福’。”这恰与她的心境深深共振：2021年，她的父亲在疫情中离世，“当时没人能探望，我看着他坐在轮椅上被推入医院，祈祷他能回头看我一眼。但他没有——那是我最后一次见他。”
这份灵魂的折射，在她的第二张专辑《Echo》中得以深情记录（定于5月16日通过Sunnyside发行）。专辑汇聚顶尖乐手阵容：贝斯手兼伴唱托马斯·摩根（Thomas Morgan）、钢琴/手风琴/沃利策电钢琴演奏家维托尔·贡萨尔维斯（Vitor Gonçalves）、鼓/打击乐/颤音琴/电子乐手肯尼·沃勒森（Kenny Wollesen），更邀来吉他大师比尔·弗里斯尔（Bill Frisell）、MC梅谢尔·恩吉奥塞洛（Meshell Ndegeocello）与钢琴家杰森·莫兰（Jason Moran）助阵。
继2020年首张专辑《Anniversary》（《周年纪念》）后，《Echo》延续了由摩根、贡萨尔维斯与沃勒森组成的三重奏班底。《爵士时代》曾盛赞她将三味线（无品三弦 lute）融入爵士语境的创造力，称其“轻盈清澈的女高音…灵巧精准”，创作“愈发深邃…却不失旋律的活力”。《纽约音乐日报》则形容其音乐为“狂喜而充满冒险的日本民谣风爵士”，《PostGenre》称其“含蓄雅致…实为一场愉悦的周年庆典”。
专辑以《The Birthday Song》开场，比尔·弗里斯尔的吉他成为焦点：“音乐上很简单，但录音时我忍不住落泪——他的吉他音色太温暖、太动人了。”歌词直击丧亲之痛：“我永远不会忘记那一刻/当我意识到终点来得如此之快。”杰森·莫兰参与的《Morisan》展现了传统日本音乐与爵士的融合：“三味线、手风琴与杰森的节奏律动，碰撞出特别的火花。”日语“mu”意为“无”，破碎却升华的《Mu》以长笛与和声精心编排，直观传递“那种空虚——痛彻心扉的体验”。
《Dignity》承载着更沉重的情感：“这首歌直接映射了我与父亲的回忆，从简单的标准曲式逐渐升华为献给父亲的颂歌。”与三次格莱美奖得主恩吉奥塞洛合作的《Snow》，灵感源于马gabe在艺术家驻地霜冷之日写下的印象派诗篇。受保罗·莫蒂安启发的《Scape》隐隐透出葬礼进行曲的气质，而实验性的《Text》则将字母转化为音高——马gabe将这些音高谱写成曲。《Letter》并非写给父亲，而是她的表亲（“几乎像挚友，我们从小一起玩耍长大，但长大后走上了不同的道路。这是一封给她的信，想告诉她我依然在乎，依然想说‘我爱你’”）。
标题曲《Echo》（恩吉奥塞洛参与）是“对父亲最坦诚直白的倾诉”。恩吉奥塞洛的歌词凝练而痛切：“这声音为你而发/请，触及你/每日我都在诉说/‘对不起’/你能听见吗？/‘我想你’。”马gabe的吟唱则更简省：仅“yukoue”（愿你前行）与“furikaete”（愿你回首）二词，祈愿父亲在另一个世界安息时能回望亲人。
终曲《Overture》（序曲）蕴含着马gabe的哲思：“结束亦是开始。”它唤起她与父亲的怀旧记忆——包括他童年时沿着河堤上学的画面。“若能重逢，让我们再聊聊吧。”她唱道。往生是否存在无人知晓，但在《Echo》的声波里，父亲的灵魂从未消逝。
演奏者名单：
- Emi Makabe — 人声、三味线、长笛
- Thomas Morgan — 低音提琴、伴唱
- Vitor Gonçalves — 钢琴、手风琴、沃利策电钢琴
- Kenny Wollesen — 鼓、打击乐、颤音琴、电子乐
- Meshell Ndegeocello — MC（第2、9首）
- Jason Moran — 钢琴（第2首）
- Bill Frisell — 木吉他（第1首）
文化与音乐融合亮点：
- **三味线的爵士化**：在《Morisan》等曲目中，传统日本弦乐与爵士即兴碰撞，既有《古事记》般的幽玄，又具比尔·埃文斯式的即兴哲思。
- **多语言人声实验**：日语歌词的留白美学（如《Echo》的单词语句）与英语、说唱元素（恩吉奥塞洛的MC段落）形成跨文化对话。
- **电子音效的禅意**：沃利策电钢琴的复古音色与电子音效（如《Text》的机械节奏）交织，恰似枯山水庭院中的砾石与流水。
- **死亡主题的诗意解构**：以“回声”为隐喻，将丧亲之痛转化为声波的永恒共振，如同日本物哀美学中“瞬间即永恒”的哲思。
Artist: Emi Makabe
Title: Echo
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Sunnyside
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/96 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:45:58
Total Size: 107; 254; 950 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Across cultures the world over, the word echo, well, echoes. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the mountain nymph Echo’s voice was cursed so that she could only repeat the words of others. In Arabic, صَدَى (ṣadā) — meaning “echo,” “ring,” “resonance” — deeply connotes longing, memory. Given her Japanese heritage, the revered, Brooklyn-based composer, vocalist, shamisen player, and educator Emi Makabe was drawn to her native language’s unique iteration: ekō.
“It shares the English pronunciation, but it means praying for people who have passed away,” Makabe explains. Which resonated deeply with her, as her father passed away in 2021. “It was during the pandemic, so nobody could visit,” Makabe says. “I watched him as he was taken to the hospital in a wheelchair, and I was praying that he might turn around just once. He didn’t turn back — and that was the last time I saw him.”
Yet a soul refraction still transpired — one poignantly documented on Echo, Makabe’s second album, due May 16 via Sunnyside. Featuring a masterful band in bassist and backing vocalist Thomas Morgan; pianist, accordionist and Wurlitzer organist Vitor Gonçalves; and drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist, and electronicist Kenny Wollesen, Echo also features the estimable talents of guitarist Bill Frisell, MC Meshell Ndegeocello, and pianist Jason Moran.
Echo follows Makabe’s 2020 debut album, Anniversary, which also featured her trio of Morgan, Gonçalves and Wollesen. JazzTimes noted her ingenuity in bringing the shamisen — a fretless, three-stringed lute — into a jazz context, praising her “light, clear soprano… agile and accurate” and her writing, which has “only deepened… without losing its tuneful brio.” Elsewhere, New York Music Daily hailed her “rapturous, adventurous Japanese folk-influenced jazz,” and PostGenre called it “understated and refined… a very happy anniversary indeed.”
The album begins with “The Birthday Song,” featuring the one and only Bill Frisell. “Music-wise, it’s fairly simple,” Makabe describes. “But during the recording, I couldn’t stop crying at the beauty of Bill’s guitar — so warm, and so touching.” Naturally, Makabe’s lyrics reflect her profound loss: “I'll never forget that moment/ When I came to know how fast the end comes,” she sings, profoundly altered by this seismic, nigh-universal experience.
Moran helped elevate “Morisan,” a track demonstrative of Makabe’s fusion of traditional Japanese music with jazz: “The combination of shamisen, accordion, and Jason’s groove creates something special,” she says. The Japanese word “mu” means nothingness, null, nonexistence: accordingly, Makabe’s shattered yet ascendant “Mu,” meticulously arranged with flutes and vocal harmonies, viscerally reflects “that emptiness — experiencing the pain.”
“Dignity” carries further gravity: “That song directly reflects my memories with my dad,” Makabe relates. “It starts as a simple, standard tune and becomes an anthem for my father.” “Snow” — featuring Ndegeocello, a three-time Grammy winner — stems from an impressionistic poem Makabe wrote, on a frosty day at an artist’s residency.
The Paul Motian-inspired “Scape” is suggestive of a funeral march. As for the experimental “Text,” its origin lies in assigning pitches to the alphabet; Makabe mapped those pitches to text. “Letter” actually isn’t for Makabe’s father, but her cousin — “almost like a best friend; we played as babies, and grew up together. But as we grew older, we went down different paths. This is a letter to her expressing how much I still care, and how I want to say ‘I still love you.’”
The title track, “Echo” — also featuring Ndgegeocello — “is the most honest and straightforward message to my dad,” Makabe continues. Ndegeocello’s lyrics deal in a visceral economy of language: “The voice is for you / Please, reach to you / Everyday I tell you / ‘I am sorry’/ Can you hear me? / ‘I miss you.’ And what Makabe sings is even more economical: just the words yukoue, telling her father to go on, or go ahead, and furikaete, which asks him to look back at us as he goes.
While “Overture” marks Echo’s conclusion, “It carries the meaning that an ending is also the beginning,” Makabe stresses. For her, it invokes nostalgic memories of her and her father — including him as a child, threading a river embankment on his way to school. “Let’s talk, if we meet again,” Makabe sings. Whether that will happen for any of us is anyone’s guess — but by the sound of Echo, his essence hasn’t gone anywhere.
Emi Makabe - voice, shamisen, flute
Thomas Morgan - double bass, backing vocals
Vitor Gonçalves - piano, accordion, Wurlitzer electric piano
Kenny Wollesen - drums, percussion, vibraphone, electronics
Meshell Ndegeocello - MC (2 & 9)
Jason Moran - piano (2)
Bill Frisell - acoustic guitar (1)
Tracklist:
1 The Birthday Song
2 Morisan
3 Mu
4 Dignity
5 Snow
6 Scape
7 Text
8 Letter
9 Echo
10 Overture
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发表于 2025-5-19 07:35:08