Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent CreaturesTo listen to Ichiko Aoba is to be drawn into a world as intimate as a warmly lit home, but cosmic in scale. The Japanese singer, songwriter, composer and multi instrumentalist has taken a dedicated online fanbase built from TikTok sounds and critically acclaimed and translated that into international tours spanning more than 20 countries. She was well known in Japan collaborating with artists like Haruomi Hosono, Cornelius and the late Ryuichi

and through that animal we travel into a parallel universe

Fall To Pieces

the addiction epidemic

As a lyricist who writes in response to the instrumental arrangements

SIDE TWO: Two Tribes

possibility and opportunity for reconciliation

and metallophones

wildest and deepest slices of Afro-Funk cut - with raw African rhythms

LP - 180-Gram Red vinyl includes download code

triangulating the encounters that went into any one record with two out of any three others

electronic and sound-art songwriting

smudgings of country-rock and a skedaddling of garage-rock