Aoi Teshima

[CloisteredFlame]

I believe it's OK to launch a page for Aoi Teshima since we already know she's recorded with Kajiura and gotten a snippet of it as well!

 

[CloisteredFlame]

Of course, first of all we have her voice in https://youtu.be/raGGkWkCAPY?si=TtNld7Y6uyHGuDRO&t=35 for the “Once Upon a Witch’s Death” Official Trailer 3.

I appreciate this soft, breathy, almost whisper-like quality she has to her voice in that recording. It got me checking out her YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSfN3DN9POc This is a video of her speaking about visiting the Studio Ghibli museum. That soft, gentle quality seems to be part of her speaking voice, at least for these kinds of videos. It's very ASMR.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

https://web.archive.org/web/20071022033234/http://www.toho.co.jp/movienews/0606/01gedo_kk.html

This is an old, archived interview for her debut with Hayao Miyazaki's son's first directorial role (her first singing and acting ever!).

 

[CloisteredFlame]

This is also a cute (as least vocally) song showing her skill, enunciating and pleasant tone (possibly what we will be expecting from her full song with Kajiura. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGGd2NKwtI

It reminds me of Yuriko Kaida's children's song.

 

[Saber]

I'm not a big fan of how overused Mori no Chiisana Restaurant is in like every Japanese food reel. It's come to point where I will scroll past any reel with that song now (like APT, cos good god can that song die already).

That said the song is cute. I'm not a fan of the breathy, quiet, barely audible style she uses (and especially in every song too) but it's like Aimer's voice in that her vocal style is love it or hate it.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

It reminded me of ReoNA actually, but I actually hear a stable and good vocal technique under that whisper/breathy effect. It's more of a whisper though.

I think she's made it a signature sound of sorts. I don't think she's incapable of singing in full voice, even if only quietly. Not from what I'm hearing. And she has a head voice too, which I've heard a little bit of in another song.

Aoi's not a young edgy artist like ReoNa, and she dresses conservatively like a traditional diva/singer, so I wonder how she decided on that vocal style.

 

[george1234]

Most of her videos on YT have this kind of quiet singing.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

is in like every Japanese food reel.

That's hilarious! How did she get to be involved with so much food stuff???

The culinary whisperer.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

Wow, she has only 16 videos and over 200K subs on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/@TeshimaAoi0621/videos

 

[Lorde-Kowz]

This is also a cute (as least vocally) song showing her skill, enunciating and pleasant tone (possibly what we will be expecting from her full song with Kajiura. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGGd2NKwtI

It reminds me of Yuriko Kaida's children's song.

Oooooooooh that's why she sounded familiar.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

Oooooooooh that's why she sounded familiar.

You've heard the song before?

 

[Lorde-Kowz]

Yeah. Like Saber said, it's used in a ton of instagram Japanese cuisine reels.

 

[grunty]

Funny how that might be her legacy and not her Ghibli movie songs.

 

[genesiƨ]

This is also a cute (as least vocally) song showing her skill, enunciating and pleasant tone (possibly what we will be expecting from her full song with Kajiura. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGGd2NKwtI

It reminds me of Yuriko Kaida's children's song.

This is a song that I come across almost every time I see Japanese food videos. Is she the one who sang this song

 

[CloisteredFlame]

This is a song that I come across almost every time I see Japanese food videos. Is she the one who sang this song

Yes!

I haven’t heard Japanese food videos so I was oblivious to her fame (or is it infamy).

 

[CloisteredFlame]

Funny how that might be her legacy and not her Ghibli movie songs.

I really wonder how she sang at the beginning of her career with the Studio Ghibli stuff, and if it's always been like this.

Did the food stuff and children's music cement her role as the perpetual soothing whispery singer?

 

[CloisteredFlame]

https://youtu.be/z5qprnLRop8?si=WmQ2znV6oDmqPeXA

This sounds like an early rendition of "Tehru's Song", her first release.

 

[grunty]

I really wonder how she sang at the beginning of her career with the Studio Ghibli stuff, and if it's always been like this.

tales of earthsea (2006) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fekckH8uI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFOz_jgcic
from up on poppy hill (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA-cfz9P3gY

so I guess she got to her whispery singing rather fast.

 

[Decretum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGdMY2yaro

This was my first exposure to her; I love how warm and crisp her voice sounds in this recording.