美国国家公共电台 NPR 2022年音乐新专辑推荐

A preview of 2 albums debuting¹ in 2022

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What new music is coming out in 2022 that's worth looking into? It turns out there is plenty of great new music coming out this year. Here's a preview of two albums.

A MARTINEZ, HOST:

There's plenty of great new music coming in 2022, so we asked one of the people behind the show Jazz Night In America what he's heard so far. And he played us something quite stunning³.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GHOST SONG")

CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT: (Singing) I tried to keep our love going strong.

NATE CHINEN, BYLINE⁴: Hi, I'm Nate Chinen, editorial director at WBGO, and one of the albums I'm most excited about in 2022 is by the singer Cecile McLorin Salvant. It's titled "Ghost Song," and it releases on Nonesuch Records on March 4.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GHOST SONG")

SALVANT: (Singing) I'd like to keep our love going long.

CHINEN: Cecile McLorin Salvant has been one of the most exciting vocalists, in jazz and out of jazz, that we've seen in the last decade. She has increasingly upped the ante in her work, branching out from a foundation of jazz standards into more original material. But what really makes her a distinctive⁵ artist is the imagination that she brings to this enterprise. She's always interrogating⁶ her material, whether it's a songbook standard from the 1930s or something that she composed herself. And in the case of "Ghost Song," she's playing with this idea of ghosts and apparitions⁷, and the ghost in question here is actually the memory of a love affair.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GHOST SONG")

SALVANT: (Singing) I'll dance with the ghost of our love. I will dance with the ghost of our long lost love.

CHINEN: She marshals all of the musicians around her into this style that feels connected to old blues⁸ and rhythm and blues, but also has this kind of very contemporary feeling. So there's something really fascinating happening on every track of this album.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GHOST SONG")

SALVANT: (Singing) Love.

CHINEN: Another album I'm really excited about in 2022 is by the alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins, and his album is called "The 7th Hand." It releases on Blue Note Records on January 28.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

CHINEN: Immanuel has in the last several years emerged as one of the most compelling instrumentalists in improvised⁹ music. There is a lot that he works with on this album that has to do with the sort of African American, diasporic, rhythmic¹⁰ and even spiritual message. But the thing that I think will speak to anyone who hears it is just this incredible aliveness that he brings to the interactions with his band and with his material. And on "The 7th Hand," I think everything comes together. This is the sound of the state of the art right now in 2022.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

MARTINEZ: That's Nate Chinen of WBGO and Jazz Night In America. He recommends the albums "The 7th Hand" by Immanuel Wilkins and "Ghost Song" by Cecile McLorin Salvant.

(SOUNDBITE OF IMMANUEL WILKINS' "EMANATION")

1 debuting   

初次表演，初次登台（debut的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• New debuting analog thermostat welding machine, easy to operate. 新登场模拟式调温电焊台，操作简单。
• With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. 苹果公司的新型平板电脑将于下周发布。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 stunning   

adj.极好的；使人晕倒的

参考例句：

• His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
• The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 distinctive   

adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的

参考例句：

• She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
• This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。

6 interrogating   

n.询问技术v.询问( interrogate的现在分词 )；审问；（在计算机或其他机器上）查询

参考例句：

• She was no longer interrogating but lecturing. 她已经不是在审问而是在教训人了。 来自辞典例句
• His face remained blank, interrogating, slightly helpless. 他的面部仍然没有表情，只带有询问的意思，还有点无可奈何。 来自辞典例句

7 apparitions   

n.特异景象( apparition的名词复数 )；幽灵；鬼；（特异景象等的）出现

参考例句：

• And this year occurs the 90th anniversary of these apparitions. 今年是她显现的九十周年纪念。 来自互联网
• True love is like ghostly apparitions: everybody talks about them but few have ever seen one. 真爱就如同幽灵显现：所有人都谈论它们，但很少有人见到过一个。 来自互联网

8 blues   

n.抑郁，沮丧；布鲁斯音乐

参考例句：

• She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
• He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。

9 improvised   

a.即席而作的,即兴的

参考例句：

• He improvised a song about the football team's victory. 他即席创作了一首足球队胜利之歌。
• We improvised a tent out of two blankets and some long poles. 我们用两条毛毯和几根长竿搭成一个临时帐蓬。

10 rhythmic   

adj.有节奏的，有韵律的

参考例句：

• Her breathing became more rhythmic.她的呼吸变得更有规律了。
• Good breathing is slow,rhythmic and deep.健康的呼吸方式缓慢深沉而有节奏。