Craobh Haven

A very limited edition of Craobh Haven cut to vinyl. With hand stamped labels and folding sleeve designed by Loz.

“Everything about the work by London-based musician and visual artist Loz Keystone and Glaswegian synth explorer and jazz trumpeter Christos Stylianides feels in the right place. Its warm and fuzzy but vast and windswept. It’s avant garde and abstract, but rounded and complete. It’s incredibly inviting and slowly hypnotic.” -Juno

“Craobh Haven” is the dreamlike product of a week’s residency in a little cabin in the Scottish village of the same name. After driving around the surrounding countryside each day to gather field recordings, evenings were spent by the duo assembling their findings into tape loops. These little rotating sculptures – containing stones and the rushing waters of the Craignish peninsula, the voices of locals and ping of the cabin’s oven timer – formed the basis for one track per night.

While KeyStone’s whirling touches of Moog, guitar and space echo suggest the murky, placid vastness of the record’s setting, the pitch-shifted, probing trumpet of Stylianides soars and stacks countermelodies like vapour trails braided in the Hebridean atmosphere.

For a record made out of loch water, basalt pinnacles and mud – it is surprisingly tuneful and sometimes almost groovy. Recommended if you like Jon Hassell, Roméo Poirier, Spillage Fete.