Their fourth album, Pissourin, on the German label Glitterbeat Records, was their big breakthrough that pushed them in a more psychedelic direction. Pissourin, Cypriot dialect for total darkness, is a portrait of the night and a search for the meaning of life, for feeling like a child again: innocent, authentic and honest.

With just three instruments and the help of a looping station and electronic wizardry, Monsieur Doumani creates a tsunami of surreal sounds.

Quite simply “impressive”, as the headline in the Financial Times read.