KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Hip-Hop these seven tracks feel as

these seven tracks feel as much part of their original setting as connected pieces from this never ending and puzzling netherworld

Steve Gunn

PHARAOH OVERLORD 5 marks the arrival of the band’s brave new duo lineup

I found myself completely enveloped by something almost unbelievable

Blame this on schizophrenia or an urge to not run in circles but it's how things have always been for the loose group

KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Hip-Hop these seven tracks feel asWhen they performed a handful of concerts as a duo in the summer of 1998, Kristen Nogus and John Surman had already worked a lot on the interweaving of genres: Nogus had confronted traditional Breton music with contemporary music and Surman had changed his jazz into atmospheric numbers that would be amongst the finest recording on the ECM label. As a duo, the harpist and the saxophonist would go on to invent something different: free folk, traditional