KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Drums glue and stamps

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The Wire Tapper 61: A track by track guide to this issue's free CD

1960s & '70s singer-songwriters

Gelbart has built a distinctive sonic universe—one that defies categorization while maintaining a singular vision

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

KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Drums glue and stampsWhen 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