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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Devil Arcana belonging to Ichiko Ohya is one of the unlockable Confidants, as well as being a romanceable character option in Persona 5 Royal. Progressing your social link with Ohya is done ...
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 ...
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 ...
Japanese ambient folk singer/songwriter Ichiko Aoba is finding music in everything from the ocean to the stars and giving voice to the unseen, she tells Alan Pedder. Years ago, while staying in a ...
Japanese folk singer Ichiko Aoba released her eighth studio album, “Luminescent Creatures,” on Friday. Produced under Psychic Hotline and Aoba’s hermine labels, the album is a hypnotic wash of sound ...
Like Vandermeer’s series, Ichiko Aoba’s Luminescent Creatures contains a lighthouse, the coordinates of which – 24° 03' 27.0" N, 123° 47' 7.5" E – provide the name for a short rendition of a folk tune ...
As my favourite album of the decade, Ichiko Aoba’s 2020 album Windswept Adan moves like a novella. With pages turning over like the opening of an animated fairytale, slowly unravelling into a ...