CD

Our first, eponymous, CD. Recorded over two days in April 2005 at St Ann's Well in the Malvern Hills and then mixed at Paul White's place in Malvern. It features our previous line-up with Jonathan Penley and Peter Stone, and an accordion-led sound.

• Eric Aston — djembe, percussion
• Jonathan Penley — accordion, whistle
• Neil Poulter — guitar, laúd, mandolin, vocal
• Peter Stone — double bass
• Kimberly Turnbull — violin

Purchase

Flatworld costs £7. You can buy it from us at gigs or order it on-line below, paying by credit card via PayPal.

Track Listing Click on each title for an excerpt from the track: Sun Les Poules Huppées Ajde Jano Son Maseltov Sétalós Kopogós Flatbush Waltz Sorry, we've sold out!

The Tracks

Sun

Jerzy Bawol, Kroke's accordionist, played this to Neil on the car stereo one evening as the band were packing up after performing at the Courtyard in Hereford. "Collected in a car park", as Neil likes to announce at Flatworld gigs. We had to make a small change so it could be played on mandolin and violin (composer Tomasz Kukurba plays viola in Kroke).

Les Poules Huppées

Jonathan collected this and the other tune we've put with it, Mazurka Limosin, on the circle dance scene in England. They don't play it like this for dancing, though.

Ajde Jano

A Balkan standard, this is a song from Serbia. The title means "Come on, Jane" and apparently Belgrade football supporters chant "Ajde Belgrade" at matches. Apparently.

Son

When we played on BBC Shropshire's Folk Programme (in the "almost legendry" middle studio), presenter Genevieve Tudor rather generously compared us to a klezmer version of The Ukrainians. That band are known for their fast lively songs, so to be contrary we picked a slow instrumental to cover — probably the only one they do.

Maseltov

An Israeli standard. It has words but we haven't learnt them yet.

Sétalós Kopogós

Neil learnt this Hungarian tune at a Folkworks workshop run by Jo Freya. There were 15 fiddles, a dozen flutes, an ample sufficiency of accordions — and one guitar. We top and tail it with a couple of short Breton tunes Jonathan collected: l'Allouette and Dans Verietais. We refer to the latter as "TV" because it was once the theme tune to a French television programme.

Flatbush Waltz

A klezmer standard, written by Andy Statman. We learnt it from a CD by classical violinist Itzhak Perlman (of whom Kimberly is a big fan).