Ichiko Aoba - piano (Bootleg, 2023)

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ichiko aoba sometimes streams herself playing piano/keyboard on her instagram, and a significant amount of it is improvised. using whatever archived videos i could get my hands on, i compiled a whooooooole bunch.

i've been chipping away at this since like january. i knew it was gonna be long but i did not foresee 7 hours to be honest. nonetheless, it was pretty enjoyable, even if im now terribly sick of piano. hope you all enjoy.

these streams span all the way from may 2019 to july 2022. the majority are from 2020. its mostly acoustic piano, but theres a decent amount of keyboard in there too. when march 2020 rolled around, she started performing luminescent creatures and seabed eden in her streams regularly. i decided to cut out most of em since it'd get very repetitive otherwise. ~4 versions of luminescent creatures were kept in, although 3 of them are pretty distinct.

after i realized this compilation was gonna be very long, i decided to also put together an abridged version for people who have lives. that one is 80 minutes long, and available in the drive folder linked below.

DOWNLOAD (full and abridged): https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

(im only uploading the 7 hour version in mp3, but the abridged version is in both flac and mp3)

since there are so many different tracks present here, i made a spreadsheet listing all of them, including ones i cut out. i started to mark each track that had vocals (there are a lot), but i havent gotten around to finishing that

heres the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

there are songs present here that i'm pretty sure aren't improvised, but nonetheless i havent been able to identify. shout em out in the comments if you know em.

the photos i used for the thumbnail and video itself are both from choe: https://andpremium.jp/column/tabi-nikki/

also, they are completely unedited aside from cropping, fyi

ALSO ALSO, i decided to put the livestream from 5/23/19 first since i think its a much better first impression than 5/1/23.

special thanks to whoever runs https://yume.red/archives/ as usual

i think that covers everything, drop a comment if anythings unclear.

this is almost certainly going to be the last ichiko aoba bootleg i compile, this is about as much scouring as i can possibly stomach. one thing ive learned about her though is that theres always more out there to find. even the day i write this, someone posted even more piano improv from a cassette shes selling on her current tour. she really does keep us fed, and im very excited for whatever she does next.

there's a few flag radio performances on keyboard that i'll post in the drive eventually

timestamps (only doing stream dates rn, might add some highlights later):
0:00 2019-05-23
18:34 2019-05-01
45:17 2019-07-09
1:02:15 2019-12-09
1:11:37 2019-12-12
1:31:42 2019-12-19
1:47:28 2020-01-01
2:10:02 2020-01-27
2:34:49 2020-02-25
2:41:04 2020-03-17
2:48:50 2020-03-23
3:05:10 2020-06-01
3:19:52 2020-06-17
3:21:47 2020-07-13
3:38:59 2020-07-22
3:53:44 2020-08-20
4:04:07 2020-08-31
4:10:41 2020-09-27
4:37:29 2020-10-13
4:45:52 2020-12-06
5:01:41 2020-12-19
5:07:20 2021-04-06
5:26:30 2021-05-12
5:36:19 2021-07-12
6:02:44 2022-04-15
6:49:16 2022-07-01