Ichiko Aoba
Ichiko Aoba is my favorite musician.
Official
- Website
- Personal Twitter account
- Staff Twitter account
- Soundcloud
- Hermine, her new record label
Discography
Studio albums
- 『剃刀乙女』(Kamisori Otome) (2010)
- 『檻髪』(Origami) (2011)
- 『うたびこ』(Utabiko) (2011)
- 0 (2013)
- 『マホロボシヤ』(Mahoroboshiya) (2016)
- qp (2019)
- 『アダンの風』 (Windswept Adan) (2020)
Other albums (live, collaborations, etc.)
- 『かいぞくばん 2010年12月7日』 (Kaizokuban 2010/12/7) (2011)
- 『火のこ』 (Hinoko) (2011), with Uchihashi Kazuhisa
- 「流星』 (Ryuusei) (2012), with Haruka Nakamura
- I can’t find much information about this album; Discogs suggests there were only 100 copies made.
- 『ラヂオ』 (Radio) (2013), with Cornelius, Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and U-Zhaan
- 0% (2014)
- NUAAMM (2014), with Mahito the People under the band name “NUAAMM”
- w/ave (2017), with Mahito the People under the band name “NUAAMM”
- 『プネウマ』 (Pneuma) (2017), with Jun Miyake, Hitoshi Watanabe, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
- “gift” at Sogetsu Hall (2020)
Singles and other one-offs
- 「外は戦場だよ」 (“Soto wa Senjou da yo”) (2013), with Cornelius for the Ghost in the Shell: Arise soundtrack
- “ANGELNOIR” (2017), for the 18if soundtrack
- 「からかひ」 (“Karakai”) (2018) and 「あまねき」 (“Amaneki”) (2019), with Sweet William
- 「鳥人間」 (“Tori Ningen”) (2019), with Albert Karch
- amuletum bouquet (2020), a single consisting of 「守り哥」 (“Mamori Uta”) and “bouquet”
Other appearances
- Disappearance (2013) by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree: vocals and heartbeat (!) on the track “Curl to Me”
- Celestially Light (2019) by Albert Karch: vocals on five tracks
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (2019): vocals on the TV commercial version of 「かぜのさかなのうた」 (“Kaze no Sakana no Uta,” or “Ballad of the Wind Fish”)
Covers
Miscellaneous
- 「よあけ」 (“Yoake”) was a song with Aoki Hayato and Haruka Nakamura, but I can’t find anything about it beyond this post on Nakamura’s Soundcloud. It seems it may just be that one song.
Interviews, etc.
- An interview with Asia Live 365 on February 27, 2020
- An essay from Danish web magazine Seismograf on March 5, 2020
- Some kind of essay/photo series Aoba is doing for &Premium, begun on April 25, 2020
- Bandcamp feature from January 26, 2021
- Ichiko Aoba, Taro Umebayashi, and Kodai Kobayashi discuss Windswept Adan, from February 21, 2021
- Two-part interview with Asahi Shimbun [1, 2], from April 5 and April 13, 2021
Video
Music videos
- 「からかひ」 (“Karakai”) (instrumental)
- 「あまねき」(“Amaneki”) (instrumental)
- 「月の丘」 (“Tsuki no Oka”)
- 「いきのこり●ぼくら」 (“Ikinokori●Bokura”) (an abridged version, at least)
Miscellaneous
- 「外は戦場だよ」 (“Soto wa Senjou da yo”), live in the studio with Cornelius, Yumiko Ohno, and U-zhaan
- The Link’s Awakening commercial featuring a clip of Aoba’s version of “Ballad of the Wind Fish”
- A collection of videos, mainly archived Instagram Live streams, from YouTube user Ichiko Archives
- Live at Fuji Rock 2017 (part 1, part 2)
- Live at Fuji Rock 2019