近乎失傳的台灣歌聲，你所沒聽過的傳統韻味。新穎動人的旋律，承襲自台灣音樂的DNA，每首歌曲背後就是一段當年雋永的愛情故事。 相褒歌(Sio-Po-Kua)可稱為台語「山歌」，這項台灣早期文青必備的吟唱才能，現今能信手拈來唱出幾段的只剩少數老一輩的人，長笛家蔡佳芬在與坪林居民互動過程中，聽到阿嬤們哼唱的曲調極為震撼，這正是一種結合地區文化內涵的特有音樂，僅以三個音為音階的曲調，卻蘊藏坪林茶鄉悠遠的歷史故事。

Redolent with a traditional flair foreign to many ears, these songs were almost lost in the flotsam and jetsam of history. The Sio-po-kua banter songs were sung as a heritage music form to the early-generation Taiwanese literati. Yet now, only a handful of silver-haired singers are able to recite a few verses and a few tunes. These songs, created on a musical scale of just three notes, are a vessel of many wistful tales from the tea gardens in Pinglin.

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延續《荻生笛聲—蔡佳芬長笛雋永集：東西謠想新臺風》的精神，尋回茶園相褒的經典記憶，搭起現代與傳統的情感橋樑，透過作曲家黃俊達的重新詮釋，以長期從事相褒歌採集文化工作者-林金城先生《坪林相褒歌》一書為藍本，為創作的靈感來源。是世界首度以台灣相褒歌為音樂主軸，融和在地聲景與西方器樂的古典作品。由數度合作，默契十足的長笛家蔡佳芬與古典吉他家Rene Izquierdo攜手演出，為茶鄉傳唱『相褒歌』賦予新生命的古典作品。 

This album is a continuation of "The Sound of Antigua: Classic Taiwanese Folk Songs for Flute", a collection distinctively characterized by Taiwan’s musical genes, that seeks to recover deep-buried memories of banter songs from Taiwan’s tea farms, for a bridge that connects the present, and the past. " With “Pinglin’s Sio-po-kua" by Mr. Lîm Kim-siânn, a field researcher devoted to documenting banter folk songs, as the blueprint, composer Chun-Da Huang reinterprets the songs accordingly. This is the first album in the world that devotes to the timeless beauty of Taiwanese banter folk songs: it fuses Taiwan’s local soundscape with western musical instruments. The internationally-renowned classical guitaristm Rene Izquierdo, who has graced other musical collaboration efforts in the past, joined the recording with the Tabernacle's Women Choir to produce this milestone collection.

 

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圓潤細膩而悠揚的長笛，

遇見行雲流水的古典吉他，

經過樹林和茶園，倘佯在相褒歌含蓄卻又浪漫的聲景。 

The melodious, silvery, and undulating flute music

dances with the full-bodied, smoky key of classical guitar.

The songs travel through the woods, the tea plantations, luxuriating in the atmospheric yet romantic soundscape of a Sio-Po-Kua.

 

摘一片葉，傳統歌謠泡進古典樂章，

喝一杯茶，品一口新枝嫩綠的茶香，

時間，停滯在氣與弦的揉捻裡，

土地上裊裊嶄新的氣味，一切都發生在那清香的茶園中。 

In picking a tea leaf, the musical heritage of the folk ballads soaks up the spirit of the classical;

In making a deliberate sip, the tea drinker treats his taste buds to the fragrance of freshly harvested tea.

Time stands still in the caresses of air and strings; the earthy aroma of the tea garden beckons the listeners, like a siren’s song.