ITAKIRY

Biography

The music of the young Swiss jazz quartet ITAKIRY tells a mystical-human story. From dim depths, an essence makes its way to the surface, where it emerges clear and powerful.

Itakiry is the third first name of singer & bandleader Chiara (Nolwenn Itakiry) Schönfeld and means "water flowing from the rock". Like spring water through the mountain, her clear voice makes its way through the music - gently and yet with irrepressible power. In interplay with the band, meandering spheres of sound emerge, with composition and improvisation flowing effortlessly together. Between fragility and urgency, a peaceful-melancholic world opens up, where it is allowed to pause and simply be.

After ITAKIRY released the single "Unknown Desire" and the EP "Shadows of Ourselves" in early 2021, their debut album "ITAKIRY" was released in September 2022 on the Dutch label SONNA Records.