KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Drums The recordings reflect a period

The recordings reflect a period of exploration and assimilation of the Nord Electro

1973 saw Ramon take the step into solo territory

” making its first recorded appearance

" says Dmitry when explaining the origin of the Pale Swordsman

they manage to wriggle out of any restraints of that and play something wholly unclassifiable

KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Drums The recordings reflect a periodWhen 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