KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Hip-Hop Blame this on schizophrenia or

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

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

was some of the most exciting music in the world

Hailing from Tel Aviv

one in which a heightened emotionality pulses through physical jams

KRISTEN NOGUES & JOHN SURMAN - Diriaou LP Hip-Hop Blame this on schizophrenia orWhen 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