Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-06-05: Cycling and Squeezebox Season Opener!

Because every DJ lives, to some extent, in the world, every week’s episode of Accordion Noir tells you a bit about what is going on in its host’s life that week. One thing going on is klezmer music, which is directly portable to music radio! Also in Bruce’s present zeitgeist is cycling, which … is more challenging to find a musical setting for — but as the onetime music programmer for CiTR (and then CFRO)’s “Pedal Revolutionary” bicycle affairs program, I can testify that it’s not impossible! (The overlap of the sets of bicycle music and accordion music, however, may be too small a slice of the Venn diagram to hear.) And then of course sometimes the host makes his life the theme of the show’s title, but the actual theme (and hence, the life) remains totally indiscernible in the actual music selection. In any event, if your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to availability of this week’s episode of Accordion Noir yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist

AccNoir–2024–06–04, Cycling and Squeezebox, Spring Season Opener!

In the Northern Hemisphere in this particular week the weather isn’t too bad here and we’re having a celebration of bikes in town. And we’re having a klezmer festival and I found a klezmer song that isn’t about bicycles at all, so feel free to laugh at me for that while riding your bike or playing your accordion outside maybe.

If you’re near Vancouver you can find more information about Go By Bike Week activities at:
https://bikehub.ca/bike-events/go-by-bike-week

Here’s this week’s vaguely spring/bike/celebration playlist

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Lorenzo Martinez And Ramon “Rabbit” Sanchez – ‟Huapango (Live)” – Old School Polkas Del Ghost Town (2017) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – www.springfedrecords.com
* Rawlins Cross – ‟Pedestrian Again” – Reel ‘n’ Roll (1993) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://rawlinscross.com/
* Mairearad Green – ‟Pedal No More” – Passing Places (2013) – Ullapool, Scotland – http://mairearadgreen.bandcamp.com
* The Chattering Class – ‟Paradise” – Something Weird in the Garden (2006) – Salt Spring Island/Victoria, British Colombia, Canada –
* Farnakht – ‟Dos Eybiker Yidene” – Ultraviolet (2018) – New York, USA – Mattias Kaufmann, button acc. – https://www.zoeaqua.com – https://farnakht.bandcamp.com (Not about bicycling, more like, “My Eternal Wife”? But if anybody wrote a song about “My Yiddish eBike Girl” that would be a big crossover hit I’m sure.)
* Evalyn Parry – ‟Oh Come On, Come On” – Spin (2011) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.evalynparry.com/ – https://evalynparry.bandcamp.com/album/spin
* Anne Niepold – ‟SPRING” – single (2020) – Belgium – Visit https://anneniepold.bandcamp.com
* À Qui Avec Gabriel – ‟Haru To Shura/Mental Sketch Modified (Spring And Ashura)” – Utsuho (2001) – Japan – https://aquiavecgabriel.bandcamp.com/album/utsuho
* Jessica C. Errico & Tony Errico – ‟Les Bicyclettes de Belsize” – Grandpa’s Magical Accordion (2007) – Detona, Florida, USA – Text by Jessica Errico, Illustrations by Brenda Star, Musical Performances by Tony Errico  http://www.3partharmony.org/index.html
* Polka Dogs – ‟Love Is Like A Bicycle” – Songs From Ratbag (1992) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://thepolkadogs.com  Tiina Kiik, acc
* boom bike bourree – ‟Manchester Day Parade 2016” –  (2016) – Machester, UK – https://www.boombikebourree.com/videos/

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social (we’re even trying out BlueSky to limited effect at accordionnoir.bsky.social) , Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!