CD — Flatworld Live

Our live CD, of tracks recorded at Colwall Village Hall and Ludlow Festival Fringe, 25 April and 6 July 2008. Featuring the current band line-up with guest Georgina Clarke (violin), it captures the band in full flight, at the top of their game. The next best thing to having been there!

Purchase

Flatworld Live costs £5.00. You can buy it from us at gigs or order it on-line below, paying by credit card via PayPal (with £1 p&p).

Track Listing

Click on each title to hear an excerpt from the track:

Complimentary Copies

If you're a music journalist, radio presenter, festival organiser or venue promoter etc and would like a complimentary copy then please email us at info@flat-world.org.uk.

The Tracks

Kukush: This was written by a friend of Nigel Kennedy's from the Czech Republic. We haven't tried his violin solo yet, though...!
The Man in the Brown Hat: A tune written by hurdy gurdy player Chris Stapleton and most famously recorded and performed by English folk band Blowzabella. Like them, we've put it with the Swedish traditional Schottische från Haverö.
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: Ex- band member Jonathan Penley collected this traditional tune and the other we've put with it, Mazurka Limosin, on the circle dance scene in England. They don't play it like this for dancing, though!
Khosid Dances: A couple of traditional Hungarian Jewish dance tunes, collected by Hungarian folk band Muzsikás from the Máramaros region of Transylvania.
Makedonsko Devojče: A Macedonian folk song, "Macedonian Girl". The chorus translates as, "Is there in this wide world, a more beautiful girl than a Macedonian? There isn't, there isn't, there won't be born a more beautiful girl than a Macedonian!" We suspect it may have been written by a Macedonian.
Nigun Atik: The best-known composition of Israeli accordionist and song writer, Amitai Neeman. We've put it with the traditional wedding dance tune, Sherele.