Aoba, Ichiko - Luminescent Creatures (Vinyl)

To listen to Ichiko Aoba is to be drawn into a world as intimateas a warmly lit home, but cosmic in scale. The Japanese artisthas taken a dedicated online fanbase built from viral TikToksound clips and critically acclaimed albums and translated itinto international tours spanning more than 20 countries.Aoba's latest album, Luminescent Creatures is the culminationof her 15-year long career - during which she's collaboratedwith Japanese luminaries such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, HaruomiHosono, Cornelius, and more - and finds her deftly melding thejazz-infused folk of her early albums with the orchestral worldbuilding of her 2020 opus Windswept Adan.While conducting field research on Ryukyu Archipelago, Ichikowas enamored by the boundless beauty, and occasional terrorof the ocean. She'd go freediving, submitting herself to thewhims of the tides. ""I feel unable to resist the pull of the ocean,""Ichiko says, ""and know how easy it would be for my small bodyto be swallowed by the sea."" That cont