Japanese
Sayaka Ikuyama
Light
Irish harp
Irish harp player,Sayaka Ikuyama's Second solo album,"Light"
★Track List
  1. The Sligo Maid/The Flowing Bowl(Reels)
  2. Inisheer
  3. Tonra's/I Ne'er Shall Wean Her/The Lonesome Jig(Jigs)
  4. An Draigheann(Slow Air)
  5. Elizabeth MacDermott Roe(Turlough O'Carolan)
  6. Waltz
  7. Over The Sea To Skye(Scottish Folk Song)
  8. The Funny Mistake/Gort na Mona(Slip Jigs)
  9. Gan Ainm(Untitled Tune)」
  10. The Wild Geese(Slow Air)
  11. Caislean An Oir/Her Golden Hair Hanging Down Her Back(Hornpipes)
  12. The Humours Of Whiskey/Farewell To Whalley Range(Slip Jigs)
  13. Ae Fond Kiss(Scottish Song)


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"Light" finds a musician obviously versed in Irish and Scots means and pyrotechnics.
Charming delicacy and and some delightful turns of stylistic phrase inhabits her playing and makes for sumptuous aural experience.
(British music magazine,fROOTS June 2012)

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Irish Music Magazine November 2012
She has a well chosen selection, played with understanding. She does a fine
job on Peadar O’Riada’s An Droighnean.The whole work is fine proof of just how international our music has become.
(John Brophy。Irish Music Magazine November 2012)

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Sayaka Ikuyama takes us on a spirited journey through the music of Ireland and Scotland,casting a spell on the listener as her enchanting Harp-playing explores the richness and beauty of this wonderful music"(Sean Whelan,Guitarist,Producer,Ireland)


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SAYAKA IKUYAMA Light(TAMCD02)
booklet with English translation
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Sayaka Ikuyama

Irish harp player. Born in Fukuoka City,Japan. This is Sayaka's second solo album. Sayaka started to play the harp at the age of eleven and Irish dancing at thirteen. She learned both by herself. Since twelve years of age, visited various music festivals in Europe and North America every summer with her father, manager of a folk music CD shop. During those days she had short-term private lessons from harp players she adored such as Philip Boulding of Magical Strings(USA),William Jackson of Ossian(Scotland),Patsy Seddon of Sileas(Scotland) and Laoise Kelly of Bumblebees(Ireland). Stayed in Ireland from 2000 to 2002. Learned basic and overall techniques and especially expressive performances in playing the Irish harp from Kathleen Loughnane in Galway, Ireland during this period. Also, she attended musical workshop at Edinburgh Harp Festival, an annual event held in Edinburgh and other workshops of Irish Harp Summer School annually held at Termonfeckin in County Louth, Ireland.After coming back to Japan, she released her first album,"Spirited Harp" in 2006.she invited Irish singer,Andy Irvine from Ireland and hold CD launch concerts in Tokyo,Kyoto and Yufuin in 2006.she plays at many other concerts and has 3 harp schools in Japan.she released her second album,"Light" in 2011.she invited Irish guitarist,Sean Whelan From Ireland and held a CD launch concert in Yufuin in November in 2011.

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SAYAKA IKUYAMA - Light
Tambourine TAMCD002

Released in 2011, this is the second album release by this Japanese harp player following Spirited Harp in 2006. Subtitled Irish Harp, with reference to her chosen instrument, made by Paddy Cafferky from County Galway, it comprises arrangements of sets of Irish and Scottish tunes for solo harp.

Born and now resident in Japan where she teaches harp, Sayaka started her playing before her teens. Its development owes much to visits to festivals in Europe and North America that led to personal tuition from harpers such as Philip Boulding, William Jackson, Patsy Seddon and Laoise Kelly. Kathleen Loughnane’s teaching also contributed to Sayaka’s very evidently accomplished playing during a period of residence in Ireland.

This choice compilation embraces reels, jigs, slow airs, slip jigs, hornpipes, waltzes and instrumental forms of The Skye Boat Song and Ae Fond Kiss. Traditional material is assembled with pieces widely derived from the works of O’Carolan, Junior Crehan, Thomas Walsh, Grainne Hambly, Michael Rooney, June McCormack, Michael McGoldrick, Solas and Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola. The two slow airs An Draigheann (Peadar O Riada) and The Wild Geese (Kathleen Loughnane) are deeply attractive and particularly moving.

Beautifully recorded with clean and clear chiming notes, rich in treble and middle frequencies, the arrangements display amply dynamic interest in their interplay of melodies and bass patterns. Exquisitely paced, with lots of airy space for the delightful ringing and resonant qualities of the instrument, the overall mood is gentle, elegant and sensitive. Unless I’m mistaken some of Sayaka’s own breathing is occasionally audible but somehow even adds to the spellbinding passion and almost palpable pleasure of the music.
Kevin T. Ward(The Living Tradition)注: 文字用の領域がありません！
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