Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The last we heard from the Japanese singer and sometime video game composer Ichiko Aoba was on 2020’s ...
beautiful album explores liminal worlds through softly textured ambient folk It’s easy to be swept up by the sublime beauty of an Ichiko Aoba song: Her crystalline voice and classical guitar are ...
On Feb. 28, Japanese folk artist Ichiko Aoba released the highly anticipated “Luminescent Creatures.” This effort comes after her lauded 2020 album “Windswept Adan” and the soundtrack to the film ...
Singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba still remembers a dream where she broke into pieces. “I was experiencing sleep paralysis. My mind was moving, but I couldn’t move my body,” she tells The Japan ...
Ichiko Aoba at Into The Great Wide Open. Credit: Vrije Geluiden Aoba found herself shifting from attentive observer to active participant. The second track of her new album ‘Luminescent ...