Flaer - Preludes
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New label, new artist, sounds as old as the wind. Flaer is one Realf Heygate, a painter and multi-instrumentalist from rural Leicestershire, prosaic but nonetheless crucial biographical information that speaks directly to the 21 minutes of music that comprise this debut LP. Cello, piano and acoustic guitar intersect in impressionistic, painterly ways, conjuring a similar sense of wistful English pastoralism as Tara Clerkin Trio's In Spring, though entirely beatless and somehow more remote sounding. Heygate is evidently a skilled composer, layering strings and field recordings with a highly deft hand, but really the true power of Preludes is in the feelings it elicits, a faintly melancholic rendering of rural life that would be idyllic were it not a reminder of just how lonely it can get out there. And with that, like the recent Salenta + Topu LP or Blue Lake's Stikling, Preludes is an exercise in escapist beauty, finding its own private world hidden just beyond the one the rest of us are stuck here in, though generous hearted enough to welcome all in.
