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".
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", 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[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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