Flaer - Translations *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 12th September 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

In 2023, Realf Heygate - who makes music as Flaer - released his debut mini-album Preludes, composed on
his mother’s piano and his childhood cello. Returning to ODDA for his debut full-length album, Heygate is
now looking in another direction.A record that embraces transition and movement, Translations is in many
ways more internal, less rooted to a single place and reflective of the process of laying new foundations in
Cornwall.
Like Preludes, Translations is coloured with found sounds and field recordings, from the starlings which can
be heard singing through the open window of his studio, to the brittle recordings of his mother, who was a
linguist, learning Spanish on a set of language tapes. In both cases, Heygate embraced the translations and
memories inherent to the sounds.
“When I digitised my mother’s tapes, they warped and stuttered in a very similar way to the starling’s song,”
he explains. “They had this uncanny rhythm and pulse that I couldn’t quite decode, but was saying
something." These decayed transmissions hint at loss, resisting clarity in favour of the ineffable.
Translations is also a record of ambiguities and in-betweens, suggested by the double meaning of the
album’s opening track ‘Entre’. At once intricate and expansive, threaded with birdsong and acoustic guitar
motifs, this and ‘Starling Descends’ (a reference to Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’) act as a bridge
away from the pastoral themes of Preludes towards a more assertive sound. At times intimate in its textured
instrumentation and at others more overtly grand in orchestration, reflecting a wider palette of influences.
Recorded between 2023 and 2025 – what Heygate calls “A gradual process of sowing and harvesting ideas
rather than a single intense creative period” - each track follows a rhythm similar to the small maquettes and
sculptures he has been working on in his visual practice, whereby structures and melodies form intuitively in
moments that are as rare as they are fleeting.

A1. 1. Entre (3.17) A2. 2. Starling Descends (2.59) A3. 3. Souvenir (2.52 A4. 4. Our Hands (3.14) A5. 5. Air Loom (2.47) A6. 6. Anagram (4.20) B1. 7. America (3.11) B2. 8. Translation (4.56) B3. 9. Land Ends (3.13)
B4. 10. You and I Are Earth (3.11) B5. 11. Farewell Sweet Pea (4.51)

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