Cassette
Tantalisingly sweet tape collection of miniatures from Realf Heygate's Flaer project, which further indulge the artist's take on British pastoralism previously explored on the quietly poetic Preludes mini-LP. There's an obvious painterly eye at play here, Heygate constructing tiny intricate scenes from xylophone, various strings and woodwind, piano and found sound that seem to capture their own expressive vistas of the rural world. Like a rabbit spotted on the lawn at dawn, or its figuarative enemy, the fox caught at play in the snow. But in Flaer's vision, never does the consequence of their meeting occur, the horror of the countryside kept at bay. I don't know if this is a world Heygate is inventing or experiencing first hand, but it's no less than idylic, escpaist to the point of being irreal in fact. What a life or what an imagination, but either way, the results are undeniably beautiful, the kind of music that enables the rest of the world to fall away for the short time it plays.
