Taku Sugimoto, Wakana Ikeda, Pere Xirau

Taku Sugimoto is a Tokyo-based guitarist and composer known worldwide for his highly restrained minimalistic compositions and performances. Wakana Ikeda, also based in Tokyo, is a flute player who also composes music. Sugimoto and Ikeda pursue similar musical directions and often perform together. Pere Xirau is a drummer/percussionist from Barcelona.

Xirau came to Japan in the summer of 2023, and on July 16 he performed at Ftarri, Tokyo, in a trio with Sugimoto and Ikeda. This CD contains two pieces performed at that concert: “Light of July,” a composition by Pere Xirau, and “Glory Skies,” an improvisation. Xirau played the glockenspiel in this concert. In both pieces, the three musicians’ sounds are produced in a quiet way, comfortably overlapping as they flow along.