CHRISTOS STYLIANIDES & LOZ KEYSTONE - CRAOBH HAVEN

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For their tenth release, London-based ambient imprint Swims Records called upon the duo of Christos Stylianides and Loz Keystone who offered up their album 'Craobh Haven', a reflective e.p. comprised mainly of field recordings and synth0-based experiments. Highly recommended!

Notes from the label - 

"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.

If you like this, why not check out other releases on Swims Records, as well as browsing our recent ambient music releases.