o1 is the first studio album by
Hiroyuki Sawano
is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and Music Producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, television dramas, and movies. His works include the musical scores for ''Attack on Titan'', '' The Seven Dead ...
's vocal project SawanoHiroyuki
Zk It was released on September 9, 2015 on SME Records. o1 was preceded by the singles "A/Z", "aLIEz", "&Z", "X.U." and "scaPEGoat".
The album charted #7 daily rank for first week. It charted so far 11 weeks in the Oricon charts.
Background
"A/Z" was used in the anime television series "
Aldnoah.Zero" as the first ending theme, while "aLIEz" was used as the second ending theme. "&Z" was used in Aldnoah Zero's second season as the opening theme.
"X.U." was used as the opening theme for the anime television series "
Seraph of the End
is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto with storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. The series is set in a world that allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a "human-made" virus, ...
", while "scaPEGoat" was used as the ending theme.
Track listing
Credits
Adapted from Booklet.
Production
*Hiroyuki Sawano – arranger, producer, programming
*Yasushi Horiguchi – director, executive producer
*Daisuke Katsurada – executive producer
*Mitsunori Aizawa – recording, mixing engineer & Pro Tools operator
*Sho Suzuki – assistant engineer
*Seiya Kawagoe – assistant engineer
*Eriko Ijima – assistant engineer
*Sora Tamiya – assistant engineer
*Yuji Chinone – mastering
*Giottographica – art direction & design
*Michito Goto – photographer
*Aya Murakami – hair & make-up
*Tatsuhiko Marumoto – styling
*Yuko Mori – products coordination
*Toru Takeuchi – a&r
*Takeshi Tomaru – a&r
*Harumi Okuma – a&r assistant
*SME Records Promotion Room – media promotion
*Yu Tsuzuki – sales promotion
*Mitsuki Hirabayashi – digital promotion
*Keiichi Tonomura – supervise
Management Staff
Hiroyuki Sawano:
*Akiko Shimodoi
*Hajime Sakai
Aimer:
*Yasuhisa Ichikawa
*Mami Fujino
Yosh (Survive Said the Prophet):
*Hayato Taguchi
mizuki:
*Yoshiki Konno
;Vocals
*v
Zk – vocals (track 1)
*Mica Caldito – vocals (tracks 2, 11)
*Gemie – vocals (tracks 2,3, 8)
*mizuki – vocals (tracks 4, 6, 9, 12)
*Yosh Morita – vocals (tracks 5, 10)
*
Aimer
is a Japanese pop singer and lyricist signed to SACRA MUSIC and managed by agehasprings. Her name comes from the verb "Aimer" in French, which means "to love". Aimer uses the name aimerrhythm for lyrics credits.
Debuted in 2011, she has relea ...
– vocals (tracks 7, 13)
Instruments
*Hiroyuki Sawano – piano (#1-5, 7-14), keyboards (#1-6, 8-13), all other instruments (all tracks)
*Yu "masshoi" Yamauchi – drums (tracks 1-5, 7-13)
*Hiroshi Iimuro – guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12)
*Masayoshi Furukawa – guitar (tracks 3, 5)
*Tetsuro Toyama – guitar (track 4)
*Toshino Tanabe – bass (tracks 1-13)
*Daisensei Muroya Strings – strings (tracks 7, 8)
*Koichiro Muroya – violin (track 1)
*Harutoshi Ito – cello (tracks 1, 7, 14), guitar (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13)
References
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Hiroyuki Sawano albums
2015 albums