why we love this

A Moog muses in a cabin on a remote cliff. Layers of dissonance and harmony form crags and peaks, like erosion in reverse. Isolation can also hold space for a home.

about the record

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 Christos Stylianides and Loz KeyStone 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 the 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 vapor 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.