Followers of ethereal, cinematic songs, rejoice. Banished Music and Unusual Information Touring are elated to announce a really particular one-off efficiency from Japanese folks singer, composer, and dream weaver Ichiko Aoba, Tuesday 3 June at Auckland’s Bruce Mason Centre.
For fifteen years, Ichiko has been honing her light craft, steadily constructing an adoring fan base the world over with a collection of more and more lush and transportive albums. Her 2020 album Windswept Adan was Ichiko’s first to be launched exterior of Japan, and gained her a brand new legion of devoted followers. Now, with the discharge of her extraordinary new album Luminescent Creatures, extra folks than ever are immersing themselves within the diaphanous dream world Ichiko Aoba creates together with her music.
Ichiko’s music evokes a devotion seldom seen in fashionable music. Whether or not by means of her collaborations with the likes of Haruomi Hosono, Mac DeMarco, Weyes Blood, or the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, through her outstanding presence on the soundtrack to the Nintendo Change remake of The Legend Of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening, and even by means of her enchanting clips on Instagram and Tik Tok, those that uncover Ichiko Aoba inevitably take her songs to coronary heart.
Audiences are in for an intimate, really magical expertise when Ichiko Aoba descends upon Tāmaki Makaurau this June. That is the present we’ve been ready for.
ICHIKO AOBA
LUMINESCENT CREATURES WORLD TOUR
TUESDAY 3 JUNE
BRUCE MASON CENTRE, AUCKLAND
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