Turkish multi-instrumentalist and producer Berke Can Özcan apparently spent two years preparing this album. The six tracks are inspired by arduous treks to the Twin Rocks, a spectacular volcanic outcrop on Türkiye’s Anatolyan coast, and Özcan offers sonic snapshots from his journeys, complete with field recordings and transcriptions of birdsong heard on the way.

Two tracks feature trumpeter Arve Henriksen, perhaps more associated with frosted fjordscapes than a sun-baked Mediterranean coastline, yet clearly at home with Özcan’s music. His distinctively strangled sound rises easily above the loping beat of 'Buried Palm Garden', coaxing a quiet triumph from the tune before its dissolution. Jonah Parzen-Johnson is the album’s other prominent guest, opening 'Hidden Village' with a bluesy baritone statement before leading it to something more urgent, underpinned by carefully layered backing loops of bells, gongs and electronica.

There’s a lot of musicianship in the project, possibly too much at times: what must have begun as something ambient has been overlaid with other ideas, resulting in a heavily laden sound without clear musical direction. That almost pays off in 'Snake Behind Valley', where Henriksen’s busy trumpet voluntarily yields to a more assertive piano riff and an atmospheric payout, but by contrast 'Sea Of B' is left floundering in an unresolved multi-layered confusion.