Here's a quick plug for Fifty-Two Folk Songs: the Green Album, my latest collection of songs.

1 Searching for lambs (3:24)
2 Master Kilby (2:54)
3 The banks of the Mossom (3:01)
4 The streams of lovely Nancy (2:04)
5 Come all you little streamers (2:15)
6 One night as I lay on my bed (2:35)
7 When a man's in love (4:16)
8 Out of the window (3:02)
9 Cupid's Garden (2:45)
10 On board the 'Kangaroo' (3:38)
11 The outlandish dream (2:18)
12 I live not where I love (4:35)
13 As I was a-wandering (3:27)
14 Once I had a sweetheart (3:28)
15 My bonny boy (4:36)
16 When I was in my prime (3:48)
17 Let no man steal your thyme (1:55)
18 Blackwaterside (3:46)
19 Rosemary Lane (3:20)
20 Box 25/4 Lid (Ratledge/Hopper) (0:51)

Six songs sung unaccompanied – after Tony Rose and John Kelly, among others – plus thirteen with accompaniment and one contemporary jazz piece(!). They're all love songs – or, at worst, heartbreak and unwanted pregnancy songs – and nobody dies. There's flute (My bonny boy) and recorder (I live not where I love), as well as melodica (On board the 'Kangaroo') and a surprisingly loud zither (Once I had a sweetheart). Then there are melodica drones (all over the place) as well as a flute drone (The banks of the Mossom), a recorder drone (When I was in my prime) and a vocal drone (Master Kilby). There's an arrangement that's heavily indebted to Jon Hopkins (Blackwaterside), another arrangement which I liked so much that I used it twice, and another that features the sound of a zither being simultaneously plucked and dropped onto a hard surface. (It survived.) And there's an old Soft Machine number arranged for melodica, whistle and zither. There's even a bit of concertina (Rosemary Lane).

Yours to download for a nominal (Paypal) charge, from here - and there's more information here.

Coming soon: the Yellow album (lots of senseless violence and lots of concertina). And, starting tomorrow, the Orange album: it'll be big on Bellamy and big on Kipling, and it'll almost certainly be big on concertina too.

52 Folk Songs is, comme d'habitude, at http://52folksongs.com.