Rec | WINDSWEPT ADAN BY ICHIKO AOBA

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this is one of my favorite albums ever — very lush and vivid, yet also sparse and delicate at the same time in keeping with aoba’s usual style. lots of gorgeous field recordings (yay ocean sounds!) and sweeping orchestral arrangements
if i recall correctly it was conceived of by aoba as a soundtrack of sorts for a (fictional, non-existent) film about a girl with psychic powers who gets exiled to the island Adan. the wildlife welcome her but then die because they have such short lives. she also soon dies but gets reincarnated as multiple different creatures. very interesting and beautiful stuff

@darice

Jan 24, 2025

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@beangirl94

What an interesting album concept! I’m not familiar with the artist I don’t think but adding it to my list to check out :)

Jan 24, 2025

@darice

bean_boy94 yess check it out!! her older stuff is actually much more minimalistic — mostly just her voice and a classical guitar — so this album was a bit of a departure for her. she has a new album coming out in february too though, called Luminescent Creatures, and it’s supposed to have a similar orchestral sound :-)

Jan 24, 2025

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