Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The last we heard from the Japanese singer and sometime video game composer Ichiko Aoba was on 2020\u2019s album Windswept Adan, a science-fiction tale set on a far-future version of the Ryukyu archipelago, the chain of islands that stretch from Kyushu in the south-west of Japan towards Taiwan. Luminescent Creatures takes its title from the English version of the last track on the previous album, \u201cAdan no Shima no Tanj\u014dsai\u201d. Now, the narrative has extended further: all human life has left and the archipelago has been returned to wildlife.For a fictional story, Luminescent Creatures has some surprisingly strong elements of documentary \u2014 Aoba visited the archipelago repeatedly during its composition, free diving in rough seas and immersing herself in the shifting patterns of the seasons.The brief fragment \u201c24\u00b0 03\u2019 27.0\u201d N, 123\u00b0 47\u2019 7.5\u201d E\u201d is a traditional folk melody from the southernmost island, Hateruma. The co-ordinates are the location of its lighthouse, and the theme of communicating through light runs throughout the album. \u201cLet a raft of light float upon the roars of the sea,\u201d she sings over the pretty melody of \u201cMazamun\u201d, amid tiny droplets of keyboard. On \u201cAurora\u201d she can only faintly be heard, like a transmission from deep space, under the charango arpeggios.The spectral whisper of \u201cFlag\u201d talks of the \u201cfootprints left on retinas\u201d and sees reincarnation through a \u201cfulgor of light\u201d (the closest English translation of the Japanese, signifying a dazzling splendour). And on the splendid \u201cLucif\u00e9rine\u201d, the album\u2019s centrepiece, amid strings and distorted synthesised twinkles, she has \u201cknown always, a light deep within the soul.\u201d The music drifts and sways. Taro Umebayashi\u2019s piano rises like a pearl diver heading for the surface, then darts away like a shoal of tiny fish. \u201cInside each of us there is a place for our stars to sleep.\u201d\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Luminescent Creatures\u2019 is released by Hermine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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