o1 (Hiroyuki Sawano album) - Misplaced Pages

o1 is the first studio album by Hiroyuki Sawano's vocal project SawanoHiroyuki. 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

All music is composed by Hiroyuki Sawano

No.	Title	Lyrics	Performed by	Length
1.	"o1"		SawanoHiroyuki	5:31
2.	"Pretenders"	cAnON.	SawanoHiroyuki:mica&Gemie	3:42
3.	"X.U."	Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki:Gemie	4:44
4.	"A/Z"	Hiroyuki Sawano	SawanoHiroyuki:mizuki	5:18
5.	"scaPEGoat"	Sawano Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki:Yosh	5:08
6.	"oI"	Sawano	SawanoHiroyuki:mizuki	4:55
7.	"Song of ..<AM>"	cAnON. Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki:Aimer	4:20
8.	"Saving Us"	Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki:Gemie	4:43
9.	"aLIEz"	Sawano	SawanoHiroyuki:mizuki	4:28
10.	"Rise Above"	Yosh	SawanoHiroyuki:Yosh	3:32
11.	"Summer Tears"	Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki:mica	3:17
12.	"&Z"	Sawano mpi	SawanoHiroyuki:mizuki	4:41
13.	"s-AVE"	Hiroyuki Sawano	SawanoHiroyuki:Aimer	4:35
14.	"out01nzk"		SawanoHiroyuki	2:10
Total length:				61:04

DVD - Only in the limited edition
No.	Title	Director	Length
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 002.5)		5:51
7.	"BRE@TH//LESS" (from STUDIO LIVE 002.5)		4:06
8.	"&Z" (from STUDIO LIVE 002.5)		4:39
9.	"Keep on keeping on" (from STUDIO LIVE 002.5)		3:56
Total length:			41:16

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

vv – 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)

References

"SECL-1762 | o1 / SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] - VGMdb". vgmdb.net. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
^ "SECL-1760~1 | o1 / SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] [Limited Edition] - VGMdb". vgmdb.net. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
"o1 | SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]". ORICON NEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved April 21, 2018.
^ "SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] | Sony Music | ソニーミュージックオフィシャルサイト". www.sh-nzk.net. Retrieved November 6, 2016.

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