Flaer - Preludes - pastoral instrumentals
Artist and multi-instrumentalist Flaer looks to the landscape to explore pastoral melancholy on debut release, Preludes.
Ensconced in his family home in rural Leicestershire in the early months of 2020, painter and musician Realf Heygate (b. 1994) picked up his childhood cello for the first time in several years and began to play.
Setting himself parameters to only record onto 4-track tape with acoustic instruments – cello, piano and acoustic guitar – he assembled a suite of instrumental compositions that form the basis of Preludes, his debut album as Flaer and the inaugural release on Odda Recordings.
Channelling the tension and unease between the pastoral idyll of the English countryside and the darkness which lurks beneath the surface, the mini-album draws inspiration from the analogue aesthetic of 1970s folk horror films, weaving field recordings of birdsong, church bells and the natural environment into chimerical melodies that reflect on Heygate’s childhood experiences of rural England.
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July
Brigid Mae Power : Dream From The Deep Well
Bobby Lee : Endless Skyways
Yussef Dayes : Black Classical Music
Guided By Voices : Welshpool Frillies
Creep Show : Yawning Abyss
Anthony Naples : Orbs
Flaer : Preludes
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin : Dolphin
Teenage Fanclub : Nothing Lasts Forever
Rrose : Please Touch
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The Binding Blade bracket qualifier! Starts November 4th at 3pm EDT!
Here’s how it’s going to work:
There are going to be nine qualifying polls (six for the men, three for the women)
Pick your most bangable favorite from each poll
Polls will run for one week (I’d prefer 3 days but alas Tumblr doesn’t offer the option yet)
The top 32 male characters and the top 16 female characters will qualify for the men’s and women’s brackets
Polls:**
Qualifier 1 (Marcus, Alen, Lance, Bors, Merlinus, Dieck, Wade, Lot)
Qualifier 2 (Rutger, Saul, Zelot, Trec, Noah, Astolfo, Barthe, Ogier, Sin)
Qualifier 3 (Gonzalez, Geese, Klein, Elffin, Bartre, Perceval, Garret, Hugh, Zeiss)
Qualifier 4 (Douglas, Dayan, Yoder, Karel, Narcian, Galle, DILF Hector, DILF Eliwood, Murdock)
Qualifier 5 (Zephiel, Mordred, Jahn, Flaer, Arcard, Roartz, Damas, Rude)
Qualifier 6 (Slater, Dory, Devias, Zinc, Scouran, Ain, Gel)
Qualifier 7 (Elen, Shanna, Dorothy, Sue, Gwendolyn, Fir)
Qualifier 8 (Thea, Larum, Echidna, Cath, Melady, Cecilia, Igrene)
Qualifier 9 (Niime, Juno, Brunnya, Guinivere, Idunn, Sigune)
I am also adding a Google Form to submit characters for an enby bracket so Limstella, Kyza, and Bramimond don’t get left out. These can be characters from any game as long as there is canon basis for them being nonbinary.
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Characters who are excluded from voting:
Anyone who obviously both looks and acts like a literal child. Some characters are borderline so discretion may be used*
Roy, Lilina, Raigh, and Lugh because they're all Confirmed Babies(TM)
Generics and palette swaps (e.g. Scott and Gelero)
Anyone who lacks either a portrait or a unique name in this game (e.g. Athos)
Elimine. She's a weird one because she doesn't have a portrait in this game, but she was given a unique look in later spinoff content (e.g. FEH). I'm excluding her from this bracket and putting her in with Blazing Blade instead. I think it makes more sense to run her and Athos at the same time
*I have not actually played Binding Blade. I know, I know, it's on my list. I'm doing my best here. If there's a character on here who you think should be excluded just shoot me an ask or something with your reasoning and we can DQ them if necessary
**I'm using the localized names because I think after 6 years of FEH they're the more commonly known ones now? Idk. The old games are gonna get weird like that, strap in
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"Flaer is out there trying to find him now, Azus...if any one can find Satan, we know its Flaer...but that's probably as good as its going to get right now."
"I know...you have to know how appreciative I am of this. Considering everything that is going on...I know you need to worry about the children too."
Lilith sighed, patting Azus' cheek gently. "You are family too, Azus. I know how worried you are right now, with Pythius and Satan...the family is almost all accounted for, even the Corrupted ones. They are contained for now on Gaea and there is not much we can do to help them."
The demon prince runs his hands through his hair with a slow exhale. "How is Zaz...? Is the compound completely shut down now...?"
Lili winces. "Honestly...it was only a matter of time. Once one of the great grandchildren came back with the Corruption, it spread everywhere...the last contact we had from him was the day after Pythius."
"We're containing the spread to parts of Pythius' domain as much as possible...let us hope it does not get worse."
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