Wakana Ikeda is a flute player based in Tokyo. Her activities range widely, from performances of composed works to improvised music to pop. In spring 2016 she formed the Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble together with Yoko Ikeda (viola), Aya Naito (bassoon), Masahiko Okura (clarinet, bass clarinet), and Taku Sugimoto (guitar). That year the album "Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble," featuring their performances of works by Wandelweiser composers, was released on the Meenna label.
Stefan Thut is a composer and cellist residing in Solothurn, Switzerland. While touring Europe in autumn 2017, Wakana Ikeda, Yoko Ikeda, Taku Sugimoto and Minami Saeki (voice) made a recording in Solothurn with Stefan Thut and another Swiss composer, Manfred Werner. That recording became the CD "Sextet," which was released on Meenna the following year.
Stefan Thut visited Japan in autumn 2019 and performed a number of concerts. On October 3, he appeared with Wakana Ikeda at Nanahari in Tokyo. This CD's only track documents the 35-minute performance of "afar" presented at that concert by Ikeda on flute and Thut on cello. Composed by Thut in 2019, "afar" has as its underlying foundation of the composition "O Padua sidus praeclarum," by the medieval Italian composer Johannes Ciconia.
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