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Restored by Ben Surman
Remastered by Gilles Laujol (Nimagi)
Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur
Heavyweight 180gr LP
425gsm brown board outer sleeve w/ UV spot finish
300gsm board printed inner sleeve w/ Nagaoka antistatic inner
Licensed from John Surman
Includes unlimited streaming of Diriaou
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€27EURor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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Souffle Continu Exclusive - Ltd. to 100 copies
Restored by Ben Surman
Remastered by Gilles Laujol (Nimagi)
Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur
Heavyweight 180gr LP
425gsm brown board outer sleeve w/ UV spot finish
300gsm board printed inner sleeve w/ Nagaoka antistatic inner
Licensed from John Surman
Includes unlimited streaming of Diriaou
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
ships out within 4 days
Purchasable with gift card
€29EURor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Warning, US shipments are suspended until further notice. Due to new US import rules effective August 29th, we must temporarily suspend all shipments to the U.S.A until a new solution is proposed by our couriers. Sorry about that.
Restored by Ben Surman
Remastered by Gilles Laujol (Nimagi)
Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur
Tri-fold Digipak
Licensed from John Surman
Includes unlimited streaming of Diriaou
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
ships out within 4 days
Purchasable with gift card
€14EURor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Warning, US shipments are suspended until further notice. Due to new US import rules effective August 29th, we must temporarily suspend all shipments to the U.S.A until a new solution is proposed by our couriers. Sorry about that.
Includes unlimited streaming of Diriaou
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
When they performed a handful of concerts as a duo in the summer of 1998, Kristen Noguès and John Surman had already worked a lot on the interweaving of genres: Noguès 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 ambient, modal ‘fest-noz’ … it is difficult to label, because the duo Noguès / Surman is one of a kind.
Diriaou, means “Thursday” in Breton. It is also the title of the first piece that Kristen Noguès and John Surman played together in 1991. Noguès learned the Breton language as a child, at the same time as the Celtic harp, – taking lessons with Denise Mégevand, who would go on to teach others, notably Alan Stivell. At the beginning of the 1970s, Noguès discovered Breton singing (soniou and gwerziou) At the beginning of the 1970s, she discovered the Breton song tradition (soniou and gwerziou) and became involved in Névénoé, a cooperative of traditional expression founded by Gérard Delahaye and Patrick Ewen. She recorded a single with the two musicians in 1974, then her first album, two years later.
Everyone who has listened to Kristen Noguès debut Marc’h Gouez, is now aware of her mysterious plucked strings. Her art, leaving Brittany, would go on to take in all landscapes and folklores, in the same as that of John Surman, conceived a little further north including vernacular jazz, international fusion with Chris McGregor or Miroslav Vitouš, and exploring more personal territory. Remember the Cornish landscapes in one of the best albums on the ECM label : Road To Saint Ives.
Kristen Noguès and John Surman thus shared an ‘extra-Celtic’ inspiration infused with free improvisation. On this recording, made in 1998 by Tanguy Le Doré at the Dre Ar Wenojenn festival, the duo uses original compositions which refer back to traditional songs (Maro Pontkalek, Le Scorff). The musicians then create fantastic impressions: Baz Valan, on which Noguès and Surman have a heavenly exchange; Kernow, on which the shared theme slowing disappears into the mist; Maro Pontkalek and Diriaou which move from the storm to the calm. Elsewhere, there is singing, first with Surman (Kleier) and then moving on to Noguès (Kerzhadenn and her signature song Berceuse). On a canvas of traditional music, the two musicians weave countless memorable landscapes.
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