Luminescent Creatures
by Ichiko Aoba
- Type: Album
- Released: February 28, 2025
- Label: Hermine, Psychic Hotline
- Country: Japan
- Length: 35:39
- Community rating: 4.04/5 from 16 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
As a thematic continuation of 2020's 'Windswept Adan', Ichiko Aoba's 'Luminescent Creatures' synthesizes the distinct stylistic periods of her discography. The album juxtaposes her foundational sound, centered on intricate classical guitar and ethereal vocals, with grander, orchestral arrangements developed in collaboration with composer Taro Umebayashi. This dynamic production, featuring delicate layers of strings, piano, and woodwinds, serves to explore themes of the natural world through a sound that is both intimately detailed and cinematically expansive.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, folk, japanese, acoustic, ambient, minimal
Tracklist
- COLORATURA (04:07)
- 24° 3′ 27.0″ N, 123° 47′ 7.5″ E (01:07)
- mazamun (03:27)
- tower (04:03)
- aurora (02:03)
- FLAG (04:36)
- Cochlea (00:54)
- Luciférine (05:01)
- pirsomnia (03:39)
- SONAR (03:17)
- 惑星の泪 (03:25)
Credits
- Ichiko Aoba - all vocals, classical guitar, steiner chime, shell, field recordings, electric piano, additional vocal arrangements (tracks 1 & 9), production
- Taro Umebayashi - acoustic piano, celesta, synthesizer, electric guitar, orchestration, production
- Junichiro Taku - flute (tracks 1 & 8)
- Tomoyuki Asakawa - harp (tracks 1, 2, & 8)
- Manami Kakudo - percussion (tracks 1, 7, & 8)
- Yuko Kajitani - first violin
- Asano Mekaru - second violin
- Anzu Suhara - viola
- Orie Hirayama - cello
- Hiroaki Mizutani - contrabass
- Toshihiko Kasai - recording and mixing
- Takuma Kase - additional editing
- Arou Yamauchi - assistant engineers
- Ryota Koshimitsu - assistant engineers
- Minori Ishikawa - assistant engineers
- Seigen Ono - mastering
- Kodai Kobayashi - art direction, photography
- Hikari Machiguchi - design