KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Drums 1973 saw Ramon take the

1973 saw Ramon take the step into solo territory

Full color jackets and lyric sheets

the dreaminess of Grouper

one man’s response to listening through forgotten and discarded tapes

KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Drums 1973 saw Ramon take theWhen 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