Japanese folk singer Ichiko Aoba released her eighth studio album, “Luminescent Creatures,” on Friday. Produced under Psychic Hotline and Aoba’s hermine labels, the album is a hypnotic wash of sound ...

Japanese ambient folk singer/songwriter Ichiko Aoba is finding music in everything from the ocean to the stars and giving voice to the unseen, she tells Alan Pedder. Years ago, while staying in a ...

The music of Ichiko Aoba traces the blurred borders between apparent opposites. On the Japanese guitarist and singer-songwriter’s new album, Luminescent Creatures, she sings often of dissolved ...

For Ichiko Aoba, music remains a powerful way to breathe life into the ethereal. Whether she sings about the tiny petals of a flower or the edges of the infinite universe, Aoba’s ability to convey the ...

It’s easy to be swept up by the sublime beauty of an Ichiko Aoba song: Her crystalline voice and classical guitar are arresting, exuding a quiet patience that seems to lower the volume of everything ...

Ichiko Aoba walks onto the blue-lit stage clutching her classical guitar and is met with rapturous applause and cheers. “Hello everyone” she sings sweetly. “If you see tired people, say hi hi.” ...