2015 studio album by
o1 Released 9 September 2015 (2015-09-09 ) Studio
Studio Sound Valley
Avaco Creative Studio
Studio GreenBird
LAB Recorders Genre Length 61 :04 Label SME Producer Hiroyuki Sawano
"A/Z" (2014-09-10 ) "aLIEz" (2014-09-10 ) "&Z" (2015-02-04 ) "X.U" (2015-05-20 ) "scaPEGoat" (2015-05-20 )
o1 is the first studio album by Hiroyuki Sawano 's vocal project SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]. It was released on September 9, 2015 on SME Records. o1 was preceded by the singles "A/Z", "aLIEz", "&Z", "X.U." and "scaPEGoat".[ 1] [ 2]
The album charted #7 daily rank for first week. It charted so far 11 weeks in the Oricon charts.[ 3]
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.[ 4]
"X.U." was used as the opening theme for the anime television series "Seraph of the End ", while "scaPEGoat" was used as the ending theme.[ 4]
Track listing
All music is composed by Hiroyuki Sawano
Title Lyrics Performed by 1. "[nZk]o1" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] 5:31 2. "Pretenders" cAnON. SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mica&Gemie 3:42 3. "X.U." SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Gemie 4:44 4. "A/Z" Hiroyuki Sawano SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki 5:18 5. "scaPEGoat" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Yosh 5:08 6. "oI" Sawano SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki 4:55 7. "Song of ..<AM>" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Aimer 4:20 8. "Saving Us" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Gemie 4:43 9. "aLIEz" Sawano SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki 4:28 10. "Rise Above" Yosh SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Yosh 3:32 11. "Summer Tears" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mica 3:17 12. "&Z" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki 4:41 13. "s-AVE" Hiroyuki Sawano SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Aimer 4:35 14. "out01nzk" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] 2:10 Total length: 61:04
DVD - Only in the limited edition Title Director 1. "A/Z" (Music Video) TAKCOM 5:16 2. "&Z" (Music Video) Ryohei Shingu 4:44 3. "X.U." (short ver. music video) maxilla 2:33 4. "scaPEGoat" (Music Video) maxilla 5:11 5. "s-AVE" (Music Video) Tatsunori Sato 4:40 6. "βios ～ Before my body is dry" (from STUDIO LIVE [nZk] 002.5) 5:51 7. "BRE@TH//LESS" (from STUDIO LIVE [nZk] 002.5) 4:06 8. "&Z" (from STUDIO LIVE [nZk] 002.5) 4:39 9. "Keep on keeping on" (from STUDIO LIVE [nZk] 002.5) 3:56 Total length: 41:16
Credits
Adapted from Booklet.[ 2]
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):
mizuki:
Vocals v[nZk]v – 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 – 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)
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