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['Jezy J. Gray']
Boulder Weekly
Follow the coordinates in the title of the spellbinding second cut on Ichiko Aoba’s pristine new album — “24° 3′ 27.0″ N, 123° 47′ 7.5″ E” — and you’ll wind up at a lighthouse on the southernmost inhabited island of Japan.
“People can see these things that others, people like myself or maybe you, wouldn't be able to see.”You don’t need to speak Japanese to be moved by the wide-eyed wonder permeating Ichiko Aoba's finely textured ambient folk songs.
Not everyone can see these spectral beasts, according to Aoba, but their presence is felt all the same.
This new album is more about providing the fragments for listeners to build a story of their own.”Luminescent Creatures, Ichiko Aoba’s second release on her own independent record label, was released Feb. 28.
“It’s really about letting it come to you — and when it comes, being able to give yourself up to it, and letting it flow through you.”ON THE BILL: Ichiko Aoba.
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