Faros is an ensemble of two people. A journey of colour and rhythm consisting of cello, saxophone,voice, flutes, guitar, percussion and electric bass. These two unique musicians travel from sweet emotive lyricism to body-moving grooves, much of this made evident by impressive, multi-layered, on-the-spot loops, played and recorded live in front of your eyes. The magnetism of their energy leaves audiences feeling warm and optimistic.

Faros is:
David Lynch - saxophones, flutes, voice, percussion, plumbing, balloons (and whatever else may be within reach).
Yiorgos Kaloudis - acoustic & electric cellos, guitar, bass, percussion, voice, loop station (and anything else his limbs can get a hold of).

Faros literally means,"light-house" in Greek (and, I think, in some other languages too) and is literally that. It's our guiding light, it's vision, direction, and it's protection. Yiorgos and I are lucky to be part of Faros. We stumbled upon its concept and character by accident but I guess that's how concepts come about.

I met Yiorgos when his cello teacher recommended him as a sub for my "Wandering Home" concerts (she was subbing for someone else). He already knew 10 years of my music and was the most enthusiastic presence I had ever come across. He was, of course, perfect for the gig but there was much more to come.

We'd often run into each other on people's projects and would always say, "when are we gonna do that duet?" We recorded a few original tracks and then he got a Fulbright scholarship (son of a bitch!), went to L.A. and I lost him for a while. He, of course, blossomed. When he came back it was time to move on the duet.

Yiorgos had been putzing around practicing with this Loop-station machine which records you and loops you as you play, then you can play along with it, record over that and so on and so forth, creating a whole layered mess. He wanted to try fooling around with it on the duet. I, on the other hand, figured, "man we can play around so much without that sucker, what's the point?" 2's company, 3's a crowd, especially when you're used to being an only child. So he brought it to rehearsal! I brought a bunch of plumbing.

The first thing I did was to rap on this heating pipe, which happened to be in the key of "B". He looped it. Then there was sewage pipe, some vocal percussion and whatever else was in the room. It was wonderfully musical!! We had a great loop, then a great melody, then and a great tune. This is fucking great!