“**Favorite tracks:** PROLOGUE, PILGRIMAGE, HORO, EASTER LILY, SAGU PALM'S SONG, CHINUHAJI, CHI NO KAZE, HAGUPIT, DAWN IN THE ADAN, OHAYASHI, ADAN NO SHIMA TANJYOSAI **Least favorite track:** PORCELAIN [Watch the review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK29Ry8Zx2I)”
“Released last year, this ambitious album by the Japanese singer-songwriter utilizes lush instrumentation to create a dreamlike soundtrack to an imaginary film.”
“I was sitting on the settee as I had my first listen to Ichiko Aoba’s seventh studio album, Windswept Adan. As the room filled with visceral, omnipotent sound, I half expected the darkened screen of our hand-me-down TV to jerk to life, filled with swaying palm trees and small weather-worn boats bobbing on benign seas. It’s a concept album, set on the fictional Adan Island – an archipelago inhabit”
“The Japanese composer Ichiko Aoba’s seventh record, the first to be released outside her country, offers a timely hidden door to another, quieter world. Drawing on her experience as a soundtracker of theatre productions and video games such as The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Windswept Adan finds Aoba moving beyond the simple voice-and-guitar arrangements of her previous releases to create, ”
