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Luminescent Creatures

Ichiko Aoba

Ichiko Aoba

Singer-Songwriter Chamber Folk Popular Highly Rated
Album • Feb 28, 2025 • 11 songs, 35m 46s
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Inspired by creatures she encountered diving in the waters off a remote island, the Japanese singer-songwriter’s understated, beautiful album explores liminal worlds through softly textured ambient folk
On her latest album, Luminescent Creatures, Ichiko Aoba's compositions move incrementally, like the limbs of coral on the seabed, flourishing with cultivation and care.
2020’s monumental ‘Windswept Adan’ was really the album on which Japanese folk singer Ichiko Aoba crystallised a vision she had been working on for the
The cult Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album, inspired by the Ryukyu islands, is like a powerfully soothing sound bath