Music for Flem is a quirky, atmospheric and beautiful soundtrack for an imaginary movie by guitar virtuoso Nigel Gavin. The instruments used are guitars, basses, frame drums, 5 and 8 string banjos, sheng, flower pot, mandolin, and loops of various combination of the above, played and recorded by Nigel.

“Over (the) 16 tracks, Gavin conjures up images of dark alleys behind a funky poolhall (the Waitsean Bugnuts and Beefcake), moonrise over a forest (Aspiration), what he appropriately calls a “spaghetti eastern” (the middle eastern cowboy theme on Dodi Li), a hypnotic rippling of repeated guitar figures (Bass Grain), some 80s casino-lounge swing (Sving-ing-ing), a cheerful morning on a warm Pacific beach (Glad Tidings) and much more. Whatever you imagine, in fact.”

The Herald