Ichiko Aoba | Luminescent Creatures Tour
Supporting Artist Owen Pallett
Ichiko Aoba’s delicate voice operates on an emotional frequency that pierces language barriers and cultural divides, creating picturesque dioramas that pull audiences into her private cosmos. Supporting artist Owen Pallett will open the show.
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
tickets
- A: $53.50
- B: $43.50
- C: $33.50
- D: $19.50
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About the Event
Ichiko Aoba has the power to bend space around her, pulling listeners from reality and surrounding them in the comforting fabric of her imagination. She’s been casting these spells since her debut at 19 years old, making picturesque dioramas with only her voice and guitar. In 2020, the Japanese singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist went big with Windswept Adan (2020), crafting a story about her deepening bond with nature. The world took notice; she was well known in Japan, but Windswept Adan connected her with an international audience as she collaborated with or played alongside artists like Japanese Breakfast, Mac DeMarco, Owen Pallett, Pomme, Weyes Blood, and Black Country New Road.
Her Instagram reels, sometimes snippets from shows and sometimes private concerts from her home, attract hundreds of thousands of viewers. Fans create TikToks using her songs as the backdrop to scenes from their lives, letting her music be their soundtrack in the moments they choose to be vulnerable. And no matter where she performs, the entire room looks on in stunned silence, hanging on every breath. She sings in Japanese, but her delicate voice operates on an emotional frequency that pierces through language barriers and cultural divides.
For her new album, Luminescent Creatures, she opens an even wider portal into her mind. Her compositions have become grander, her songwriting more refined, making listeners feel like they’re inside in a private cosmos alongside her.
OWEN PALLETT
Toronto-based Owen Pallett is one of Canada’s most prolific composers and collaborators. As a solo artist, Pallett has released a string of critically praised solo recordings, winning the Polaris Prize in 2006. As a producer and arranger, Pallett has worked with Frank Ocean, The National, Taylor Swift, R.E.M., Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Sigur Rós, Linkin Park. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sharon Van Etten, The Mountain Goats, Beirut, Lana Del Rey, and many more. Owen won an Album of the Year Grammy for their collaborative work on Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. Pallett also works extensively as a film and TV composer. They won an Emmy for their work on Solve Sundsbo’s Fourteen Actors Acting and was nominated for an Academy Award for their work on the original score of Spike Jonze’s Her.