KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Poster jabbering nursery rhymes over bass

jabbering nursery rhymes over bass rhythms

"The Smudjas are a punk band from the Italian city of Milan

and modern composition

Nina's voice is at once delicate and intense

KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Poster jabbering nursery rhymes over bassWhen 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