O1 (Hiroyuki Sawano album)

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]

o1
Studio album by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]
Released	9 September 2015 (2015-09-09)
Studio	Studio Sound Valley Avaco Creative Studio Studio GreenBird LAB Recorders
Genre	Pop rock
Length	61:04
Label	SME
Producer	Hiroyuki Sawano
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] chronology
UnChild (2014) o1 (2015) 2V-ALK (2017)
Singles from o1
"A/Z" Released: 10 September 2014 (2014-09-10) "aLIEz" Released: 10 September 2014 (2014-09-10) "&Z" Released: 4 February 2015 (2015-02-04) "X.U" Released: 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20) "scaPEGoat" Released: 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20)

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.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Performed by	Length
1.	"[nZk]o1"		SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]	5:31
2.	"Pretenders"	cAnON.	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mica&Gemie	3:42
3.	"X.U."	Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Gemie	4:44
4.	"A/Z"	Hiroyuki Sawano	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki	5:18
5.	"scaPEGoat"	Sawano Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Yosh	5:08
6.	"oI"	Sawano	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki	4:55
7.	"Song of ..<AM>"	cAnON. Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Aimer	4:20
8.	"Saving Us"	Benjamin mpi	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"	Benjamin mpi	SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mica	3:17
12.	"&Z"	Sawano mpi	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

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 [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): 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)