Ikarus is a Japanese tribal house artist from Japan. The name is also used by several unrelated acts, including a Swiss jazz group, a Viennese beat-based project, a German jazz-rock band, and a London progressive sludge metal band.

Style and related acts

The Swiss group billed as Ikarus is a five-piece jazz ensemble built around drums, bass, piano, and two vocalists, one male and one female. Its line-up is Stefanie Suhner on vocal, Andreas Lareida on vocal, Lucca Fries on piano, Mo Meyer on bass, and Ramón Oliveras on drums. The group combines jazz tunes and pop forms, using wild improvisation and minimal grooves, and describes its music as moving from storm to silence. Its sound is presented as a contemporary blend that crosses genre boundaries, with references to Bartók, James Blake, Arvo Pärt, and Eivind Aarset.

Swiss jazz group line-up

Stefanie Suhner and Andreas Lareida provide the central vocal contrast, while the rhythm section and piano shape the group’s arrangements. The ensemble is associated with recordings and performances under the name Ikarus, including material available through its own website and SoundCloud presence.

Other uses of the name

An Ikarus project from Vienna is described as a “beat scavenger” and musical world traveller. That version of the name is associated with the track “Touched the Sun,” which features Bulgarian throat singing alongside beats and appears on a debut album of the same title. The name also belongs to a German jazz-rock band that releases one album in 1971, a German band, and a progressive sludge metal band from London, England.