Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-15: “Music With Personality” (And don’t cut down 1,000 year old trees)
Looking over the playlist of this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio, I can perceive no consistent theme other than our standard “a mix of great songs representing different musical traditions from different parts of the world” — a thematic failure of the imagination of sorts, but one whose ends still justify its means. But I can see that Bruce nonetheless wants to make this episode about something timely and important, even if that important thing is not actually what the content of the episode is about. Well, you know, we do our important work using the platform that we have. He wants you all to know that our provincial government is inadequately protecting one of the few remaining stands of old growth forest remaining on Vancouver Island, in Fairy Creek, and that the RCMP are treating the environmental activists there very cavalierly. I don’t think that last night’s radio episode is really about that, but absolutely this post is. Anyway, if your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist: (but first, a few more words from Bruce)
🪗 Activism for a Better World 🪗
🌲 The (supposedly “progressive”) government of British Columbia is backing the logging of some of the last old-growth forest in our province. Thousands of people have risked arrest in the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Police have violently and illegally attacked citizens, including press trying to cover the situation. Please follow this story and call for accountability. These thousand year old trees could be lost within weeks.
Please visit for updates:
https://laststandforforests.com
Louisiana is working to recover after two hurricanes. You can help here:
Lost Bayou Ramblers is directly supporting the community Houma, Louisiana: Venmo @lostbayou-ramblers
Another Gulf Is Possible: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/anothergulfispossible
Feed the Second Line (support community musicians in New Orleans): https://www.feedthesecondline.org/donate
LONG TERM GOALS FOR LOUISIANA : Louisiana Solar Fund was created in response to Hurricane Ida, in order to help communities of Louisiana rebuild with sustainable infrastructure, thereby allowing them to continue their work as land stewards. https://www.gofundme.com/f/louisiana-solar-fund
Today’s playlist: (Bruce says this is a great set)
AccNoir-2021-09-15, “Music With Personality” (And don’t cut down 1,000 year old trees)
* François Couture – ‟Terrasse Dufferin” – Ludovica (2011) – Quebec, Canada – www.Boghei.com Andre Bouchard, acc
* Spiers & Boden (Happy Birthday 🎂 John Spiers!) – ‟Fallow Ground” – Fallow Ground (2021) – England – https://spiersandboden.com https://www.johnspiers.co.uk/
* Gotan Project – ‟Panamericana” – Tango 3.0 (2010) – Paris, France – http://www.gotanproject.com/
* The Tom Fun Orchestra – ‟I’m Your Man” – single (2021) – Cape Breton Island, Canada – Press Release: https://mailchi.mp/061b0b02d9b9/the-tom-fun-orchestra-releases-surprise-new-single-im-your-man?e=3f9eba6083
* The Gertrudes – ‟River” – Hard Water (2009) – Kingston, Ontario, Canada – Owen Fernley, acc – Hey look, the Gertrudes have a new record coming out in November! Glad I played this so I saw that: https://thegertrudes.com
* Gali Galó & Gabeu – ‟Na Frente Dos Bois (Clipe Oficial)” – (Video Single) (2021) – Brasil (Brazil) – https://youtu.be/Nmvz4gGQYqE (The title means “Don’t put the wagon before the oxen” meaning “be patient, that’s not how it’s done.”) Thais Andrade, acc
* Lost Bayou Ramblers – ‟French Blues (Live)” – Gasa Gasa Live (2014) – Louisiana, USA – http://lostbayouramblers.com/
* Maria Kalaniemi – ‟Olin Sairas kun Luokseni Saavuit” – Maria Kalaniemi (1992) – Finland –
* Mel Biggs – ‟Mounthills / Coleford Jig” – From Darkness Comes Light (2021) – England, UK – http://www.melbiggsmusic.co.uk/ https://melbiggsmusic.bandcamp.com Interview with Mel about music, mental health, and the power of nature and place: https://darrensmusicblog.com/2021/09/14/this-weeks-featured-artist-folk-musician-mel-biggs-new-album-from-darkness-comes-light/
* Spiers & Boden – ‟Goddesses Red House” – Fallow Ground (2021) – England – https://spiersandboden.com
https://www.johnspiers.co.uk/
* The Gordon Trio [Max Gordon] – ‟Whispering” – Music With Personality [Four disk album, 10-inch shellac, 78 rpm records] (1947) – Pittsburgh? New York? Not sure where they were from. – https://www.discogs.com/The-Gordon-Trio-Music-With-Personality/release/18812983 DJ Radionic Powers saved these. Donate to support their show Seasoned Beats on https://kkfi.org
* Sensorama – ‟Where The Rabbit Sleeps” – Asthmatic Worm (2002) – Germany – https://www.tursa.franken.de/AcidJesus_discog.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorama_(Band)
* The Dixie Playboys – ‟I Think of a Day in September” – Digital Library of Appalachia (194) – Roanoke, Virginia, USA – http://www.aca-dla.org
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2011-08-17: with Scotia Victoria Gilroy of Vladimirska!
From ten years ago, here’s episode 245 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio 100.5 fm’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, featuring a live, in-studio visit from someone who was even a decade ago an old friend of Accordion Noir from our very earliest wild and crazy MySpace days: Scotia Victoria Gilroy of Vladimirska! At its original online home this episode logged some 5051 listens, but you can continue enjoying listening to it as digital audio going forward courtesy of our friends at the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-08-17, with Scotia Victoria Gilroy of Vladimirska
* Artist – Song
- Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme song
To Ostatnia Niedziela, the “suicide tango”
Vladimirska – Werewolf (about author Jan Potocki)
And then something — but we don’t know what — by the Motion Trio
Czestaw Spiewa – Debiut
Ingrid Gatin – Take These Walls
Another unknown song followed, by Oy Division
Konsonans Retro – Podolian Wedding Song
Vladimirska – The Dancing Bear
Cornelia Catanga – Melody
Vladimirska – Spectacolo- Tonight’s cover illustration is: the cover artwork to Vladismirska’s album Blich Street.
Happy spring-time [some aspects of Bruce’s Accordion Babes calendar get closer scrutiny than others], and please, support Accordion Noir and Co-op Radio (without whom there wouldn’t be an Accordion Noir), by becoming a member. Go to http://www.AccordionNoir.org or http://www.CoopRadio.org and donate online. We really especially supporters who’ve become “sustaining” donors by arranging to donate a little bit every month. Those add up to a lot of support over the year. We love that most of all.
When you’re able to donate, please do add a comment that, “Accordion Noir sent me!” Then we know who loves squeezing.
Thanks much,
Bruce and Rowan
——–
Get all your Vancouver Area accordion information at:
http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.orgSupport Accordion Noir, we love our supporters, and our supporters’ supporters – even our detractors love our supporters.
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-08: Noir Fest Preview, Hurricanes and Earthquakes
Greetings, friends! We’ve been keeping it low-key, to suppress attendance (these are strange times!), but we do want to give everyone a chance to catch… the 14th annual Accordion Noir Festival! In the interest of public health, it’s being conducted outdoors, as part of the Maclean Park Music series, the afternoon of Saturday, September 11th, from 2-5 pm! (The 14th annual Accordion Noir Festival is presented with support from SoundON, Creative BC, and the Province of British Columbia.) And this week’s episode of our radio program celebrates this well-ventilated, socially-distanced by-donation gathering, featuring last year’s fest kicker-off Ana Bon-Bon and what just might be the debut performance of the Hot Water Quintet! (All that, plus a somewhat predictable, if exceptional, unnamed guest.) This episode of our program looks into all that, plus Bruce shares the spotlight on hurricane and earthquake relief fundraising, through music! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to this episode as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
(But first — Earthquake and Hurricane fundraisers:)
Haitian band Lakou Mizik: recommends FOKAL’s efforts because they are distributing funds directly to LOCAL GRASSROOTS organizations – if you can contribute please go to: http://www.ademen.org
https://www.facebook.com/LakouMizik/posts/4358711237505769
Lost Bayou Ramblers is doing fundraising for folks who lost houses in hurricane Ida:
https://www.facebook.com/LostBayouRamblers
Also support their local community organizing: https://anothergulf.com
Here’s the playlist, for real:
- ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) http://thedardanelles.com/
- Geoff Berner – ‟Not The Jew I Had In Mind” – Grand Hotel Cosmopolis (2019) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com
https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com/album/grand-hotel-cosmopolis - Ana Bon-Bon – ‟Ocean Of Tears” – Sister (2004) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.AnaBonBon.com
- Clinker – ‟Mainstreet Stumble” – Clinker (2021) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – https://clinkermusic.bandcamp.com Lucy Lambert, acc.
- Lakou Mizik – ‟Belong, from Lakou Mizik stinger (short)” – Vancouver Folk Festival 2016 Interview (2016) – Haiti / New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – http://www.lakoumizik.com/
- Lakou Mizik – ‟Pistach Griye (feat. Trombone Shorty)” – HaitiaNola (2019) – Haiti / New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – http://www.lakoumizik.com/
- Zotobre – ‟Lagen” – Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz, & Electric Folklore from Haiti (2016) – Haiti – https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com
https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/tanbou-toujou-lou-meringue-kompa-kreyol-vodou-jazz-electric-folklore-from-haiti - Lost Bayou Ramblers – ‟Le Temps Après Fini” – Bayou Perdu (2005) – Louisiana, USA – http://lostbayouramblers.bandcamp.com
- Soul Creole – ‟Trois Rangs (single)” – Trois Rangs (single & dub mix) (2020) – Louisiana, USA – https://soulcreole.bandcamp.com Ashlee Wilson Michot on ‘tit-fer (triangle), Corey Ledet on accordion, Louis Michot on fiddle
- Goldman Thibodeaux and the Lawtell Playboys – ‟J’ai plus de place pour aller” – La Danse à St. Ann’s (2020) – Lawtell, Louisiana, USA – http://nouveauelectricrecords.com/
https://goldmanthibodeaux.bandcamp.com - Geoff Berner – ‟The Drummer Requests” – Grand Hotel Cosmopolis (2019) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com
https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com/album/grand-hotel-cosmopolis - Ana Bon-Bon – ‟Love Me No More” – Sister (2004) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.AnaBonBon.com
- Clinker – ‟Wrongfoot in Dallas” – Clinker (2021) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – https://clinkermusic.bandcamp.com Lucy Lambert, acc.
- Geoff Berner – ‟Prairie Wind” – Canadiana Grotesquica (2017) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
- Lost Bayou Ramblers – ‟Pine Grove Blues (Live)” – Gasa Gasa Live (2014) – Louisiana, USA – http://lostbayouramblers.com/
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival (taking place this Saturday, Sept 11th, at Maclean Park!), and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle (on this Friday night at Strathcona Park!) Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2011-08-24: Reggae Summer
We have fallen out of synch with our back archives, episodes churned back up and re-shared approximately ten years following their original air date. Nonetheless, we plunge boldly onward regardless! The only way out is through! While my suspicion that the title “Reggae Summer” for this archival episode, number 246, may be somewhat of an overstatement… we don’t lack for boldness of vision! At its original online home, this recording tracked some 5614 listens. Intrepid accordion and reggae fans can continue enjoying it today as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-08-24, Reggae Summer
Accordion Hallucinations!
Please come to our first event this week [only, y’know, ten years ago] as a preview for our September Accordion Noir festival: Tuesday, September 6 at 8:30pm Nyala African/Ethiopian Cuisine 4148 Main Street Vancouver, BC https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161035460639379* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* The Bedouin – Cruel Justice – Gun Crazy (1991) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – From Highlife Records, http://www.highlifeworld.com/index2.html
* Blackberry Wood – Wayfaring Stranger – Travelling Horse Opry (2008) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/blackberrywood
* Adham Shaikh – Water Prayer (Featuring Jornick) (Rastaman Vibration, Rasta Dub Mix) – Universal Frequencies (2010) – Nelson, British Columbia, Canada – http://www.sonicturtle.com
* Hinkala – Seul, Oui Mais Bien Accompagne – Sans Interdit (2007) – France – http://hinkala.com/default.aspx
* Play, Bayan! – Drugs – †íöèêëîïåäèÿ íà›îäíîé ìåäèöèíû [that’s supposed to be Cyrillic] (2006) – Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation – http://www.myspace.com/playbayan
http://www.igraigarmon.ru/music/index.htm
* Heart Beat Band and others – Beacon Of Hope – The Dawn Of Peeni Waali (1991) – Switzerland, etc. – (with Linton Kwesi Johnson) – http://www.mensch3000.ch/default.htm
* Linton Kwesi Johnson (and The Dennis Bovell Dub Band) – Dubbing for Life (Ian Hill, acc at 2:55 – end) – Tings an’ Times (1991) – London, England – http://www.lintonkwesijohnson.com/
* Babylon Circus – Sailor’s Wife – Dances of Resistance (2005) – Lyon, France – http://www.babyloncircus.com/blog/en/
* Donna Zoe – Mellow Mood – Accordion Noir Festival, 2009
* Turlu Tursu – Oriental Klezmer Dub – Accordion ‘n Drum ‘n Bass (2005) – Belgium – http://www.turlutursu.be/ http://www.homerecords.be
* Disappear Fear – Play The Music – Disappear Fear – http://www.soniadf.com/home.php
* Pistolera – Guerra – En Este Camino (2008) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – http://www.pistolera.net/
* Rowan – Computer Love (Kraftwerk/Reggae Version) – live in the studio, Bruce Played his keychain with a pen.
* AbbA – Tropical Loveland – (1976) – Sweden – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5vxfXDpB0
* Poolside Tricks – Wine and Grine – Shedlockz (2007) – Welshpool, UK – http://www.myspace.com/poolsidetricksTonight’s cover illustration is: the “lightning bug” cover of “The Eve of Peeni Waali”
Happy spring-time, and please, support Accordion Noir and Co-op Radio (without whom there wouldn’t be an Accordion Noir), by becoming a member. Go to http://www.AccordionNoir.org or http://www.CoopRadio.org and donate online. We really especially supporters who’ve become “sustaining” donors by arranging to donate a little bit every month. Those add up to a lot of support over the year. We love that most of all.
When you’re able to donate, please do add a comment that, “Accordion Noir sent me!” Then we know who loves squeezing.
Thanks much,
Bruce and Rowan
——–
Get all your Vancouver Area accordion information at:
http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.orgSupport Accordion Noir, we love our supporters, and our supporters’ supporters – even our detractors love our supporters.
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival (taking place this Saturday, Sept 11th, at Maclean Park!), and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle (on this Friday night at Strathcona Park!) Cheers & squeeze on!
Here we are again, friends — it’s a new month, and with it the first Friday of that month, and with it… well, you already know how we like to celebrate Bandcamp Friday over in these parts. Here’s a chance for us to share music with you available for sale to benefit inadequately gigging squeezebox stars during this interminable disruption to “normalcy”. This week’s playlist is again, a selection of great accordion music avaliable for sale on that site — and if you buy some of it this Friday, it’s just about the best deal going for composers and performers depending on revenues from online commerce to justify their ongoing involvement in the arts. Since the pandemic tightened up access to our parent radio station, all of our episodes have been pre-recorded, but this one a little bit more so than the rest of them — Accordion Noir’s host Bruce Triggs is taking a little time off at a getaway, but he looks forward to enjoying litsening to his own voice broadcasting Wednesday night from 10-11 pm at 100.5 fm. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2021-09-01, Bandcamp Friday Doesn’t Go On Vacation!
* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) http://thedardanelles.com/
* Gogol Bordello – ‟Avenue B” – Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (2005) – Romany / USA, etc. – http://www.gogolbordello.com/
https://sideonedummy.bandcamp.com/album/gypsy-punks-underdog-world-strike
* La Strada – ‟The Traveler” – New Home (2010) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – https://lastradaband.bandcamp.com/album/new-home-2
* Oktopus – ‟Danse Hongroise No 5” – Hapax (2017) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.oktopus.ca/
https://oktopus1.bandcamp.com
* Gubbish – ‟Fake Glossalalia” – Notations in Tonation (2004) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.aaronnovik.com/
https://aaronnovik.bandcamp.com/album/notations-in-tonations
* Erin Brown & Barry Watson – ‟Hopping Down In Kent” – Fatea Showcase Session Summer 2021:Halcyon (2021) – UK – http://www.fatea-showcase-sessions.co.uk
https://erinbrownmusic.co.uk/
https://erinbrownbarrywatson.bandcamp.com/releases
* Happy Johnny And Family – ‟Father Put the Cow Away” – Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland [Disc 3]: Some Summer Day (1963) – http://www.dust-digital.com
https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/fonotone-records-frederick-maryland-1956-1969
* Charles Figueroa, August Rodrigues, Virginia Rodrigues, and Wayne Rodrigues – ‟Bomba Negra” – Puerto Rican Music in Hawaii (1989) – Puerto Rico / Hawaii – http://folkways.si.eduhttp://smithsonianfolkways.bandcamp.com
* Geoff Berner With Diona Davies And Wayne Adams – ‟Weep, Bride, Weep” – The Wedding Dance Of The Widow Bride (2007) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com
* Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys – ‟Soft Time Traveler” – Soft Time Traveler (2013) – Boston, Massachusetts, USA – http://www.armyoftoys.com/
https://armyoftoys.bandcamp.com/album/soft-time-traveler
* Rachel Bell, Alex Cumming, and Jeremiah McLane – ‟Kinda Hanter/Dancing with Annemieke” – Virtual Accordion Camp: Live From A Quarry! (2021) – Vermont, USA – https://virtualaccordioncamp.bandcamp.com/
http://www.virtualaccordioncamp.com/
* Guy Klucevsek – ‟Citrus, My Love: Scene 2” – Citrus, My Love (1993) – New York State, USA – (Finally being reissued in 2021!)
http://www.guyklucevsek.com/
https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/guy-klucevsek-citrus-my-love-with-bonus-videos
* Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko – ‟Politious Syrtos” – Klezmer from the New World (2020) – UK – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org
https://www.shades-of-folk.com
www.szilviacsaranko.de
https://shades-of-folk.bandcamp.com
* Teija Niku – ‟Tuntu” – Hetkessä (2019) – Finland – www.teijaniku.com
https://teijaniku.bandcamp.com
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle — taking place live for only the second time this year in the Strathcona Park pergola from 7-9 pm this Friday night! We’re all about Fridays here. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2011-08-10: Jen curates the crates
From ten years ago, here’s episode 244 of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio progam. This episode was derived from cream skimmed from the coincidentally accordionic music collection of a great supporter of our activities, Rowan’s wonderful wife Jennifer, who makes a lot of what we do possible. At its original online home, this episode logged some 5403 listens, and you can continue enjoying it today as digital streaming audio via the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-08-10, Jen Curates the Crates!
- Artist – Song
- Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme
- Robin Archer (Brecht/Weill) – the Solomon Song
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Easy Does It
- Fred Eaglesmith – Maggie and Me
- Steve Earle – the Boy Who Never Cried
- Ani DiFranco – Face Up and Sing
- Lucinda Williams – Jackson
- Rufus Wainwright (after Leonard Cohen) – Everybody Knows
- Perla Batalla (after Leonard Cohen) – Bird On a * Wire
- Josh Ritter – Snow is Gone
- John Prine – Six O’Clock News
- Corbin Murdoch – Accidentals, Exotics, and Escapes
Tonight’s cover illustration is: The picture you get if you search for “Jen does not play accordion.” From this fabulous post by the “last girl on earth” who did learn accordion. http://www.lastgirlonearth.com/2005/04/ [Ed. Still at it under a new website today, https://denibonet.com/home%5D
Happy spring-time, and please, support Accordion Noir and Co-op Radio (without whom there wouldn’t be an Accordion Noir), by becoming a member. Go to http://www.AccordionNoir.org or http://www.CoopRadio.org and donate online. We really especially supporters who’ve become “sustaining” donors by arranging to donate a little bit every month. Those add up to a lot of support over the year. We love that most of all.
When you’re able to donate, please do add a comment that, “Accordion Noir sent me!” Then we know who loves squeezing.
Thanks much,
Bruce and Rowan
Get all your Vancouver Area accordion information at:
http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.org
Support Accordion Noir, we love our supporters, and our supporters’ supporters – even our detractors love our supporters.
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle — taking place live for only the second time this year in the Strathcona Park pergola from 7-9 pm this Friday night! Cheers & squeeze on!
From the article But is it Klezmer? Rock, Jazz, Punk, Hip-hop, and Techno Bring New Sounds to the Jewish Mix
The week of KlezKanada workshops is still underway, and the subject of last week’s episode of our weekly broadcast is, again, the subject of this week’s also! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital streaming audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s the playlist:
AccNoir-2021-08-25, KlezKanada and Then Some
Again: https://klezkanada.org/
Summer Retreat basics:
https://klezkanada.org/summer-retreat/
Online Workshop and Virtual Performance Schedule: Mon-Fri, Aug 23-27
https://klezkanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-Brochure-Complete_715.pdf
In Person Events (Toronto, New York, Montreal / Sat-Sun, Aug 28-29)
https://klezkanada.org/featuredprogramming/in-person-programming-2021/
Faculty, including many of tonight’s Accordion Noir musicians:
https://klezkanada.org/summer-retreat/faculty/
- The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – (2015) – – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) http://thedardanelles.com/
- “Weird Al” Yankovic – ‟The Hot Rocks Polka” – UHF (1989) – USA – http://www.weirdal.com/
- Rolling Stones – ‟Sweethearts Together” – Voodoo Lounge (1993) – England / Texas – Flaco Jimenez, acc; Charlie Watts, drums. (Benmont Tench plays “Accordion Air Woosh” on the song “Moon is Up” from this album 🪗.)
- Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – ‟Yesterday Is Buried” – The Broken Tongue/Dos Tsebrokhene Loshn (2006) – Detroit-New York, USA / Berlin, Germany – paintedbird.net
- Mjwb & Michael Ward-Bergeman – ‟Bourbon Street Parade (Featuring Ionita Manole, Cristinel Turturica, Mielu Bibescu, Lucian Stoica & Marius Gore)” – Gig 365 (2012) – – http://www.mjwb.co.uk/
- Lankum – ‟Bad Luck To The Rolling Water” – Between The Earth And Sky (2017) – Dublin, Ireland – http://lankumdublin.com
Ian Lynch’s Fire Draw Near Podcast: https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear - Ballyhoo – ‟With Apologies To Dan” – From Trees and Mud (1995) – Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada – (With Derrick Stacey Denholm 🪗) https://dsd-dronetsuga.bandcamp.com
https://ballyhoobc.bandcamp.com - DSD – ‟Desculpe Qualquer Coisa” – Death of the Rodeo Preacher (2004) – Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada – https://dsd-dronetsuga.bandcamp.com
- Walt McClements – ‟Thresholds (through a hole in the fence)” – A Hole in the Fence (2021) – Los Angeles, California, USA – https://waltmcclements.bandcamp.com/
http://lonesomeleash.com/ - Bona Fide Scoundrels – ‟4 Lil Wonder” – Bone Fidelity (2021) – Canada / USA – http://mediamjwb.blogspot.com Michael Ward-Bergeman, acc
- Frank London – ‟O Dolcezz_amarissime” – Ghetto Songs (2020) – Latvia – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org Ilya Shneyveys, acc?
- Anthony Russell And Veretski Pass (w/Joshua Horowitz) – ‟Horses” – Convergence (2018) – – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org
- Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – ‟Tzivkever Nign” – The Butcher’s Share (2017) – Michigan, USA / Berlin, Germany – http://www.paintedbird.net/
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
From ten years ago, here’s episode 243 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program. At its original online home, it logged some 5947 listens, but you can continue enjoying it as digital streaming audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-08-03, MusicFest Vancouver Hayloft Kickstart
Go to the Music Fest Vancouver this weekend [ten years ago]!
“Accordion Day,” with three international classical accordion acts!
Saturday, August 6th. [The three acts included the charming Dutch TOEAC, pictured, and Steve Normandin, then of Quebec. Rowan introduced himself after the concert and we hit it off, ultimately relocating to a downtown cafe where we were eventually asked to leave due to Steve’s excessive animation in his enthusiastic advocacy for accordion. This led to multiple visits by Steve to our festival and our radio program. Rounding off the program was the late Alexander Sevastian, of the Quartetto Gelato. This all is reflected in this episode’s playlist.]Regina Carter with her Reverse Thread Project (Will Holshouser, acc.)
Monday August 8th. Amazing opportunities! [Bruce doesn’t lie; this was also an incredible concert.]http://www.MusicFestVancouver.ca
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* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Regina Carter – Kothbiro (Intro) – Regina Carter – Reverse Thread (2010) – New York, New York, USA – http://www.reginacarter.com/ Will Holshouser, acc.
* Regina Carter – Kothbiro – Regina Carter – Reverse Thread (2010) – New York, New York, USA – http://www.reginacarter.com/ Will Holshouser, acc.
* Toeac – Tango – I. Stravinsky – The Netherlands – http://www.musicfestvancouver.ca http://www.toeac.nl/
* Steve Normandin – Almost like being in love – Swing Road (2009) – Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/stevenormandin
* Alexander Sevastian – D. Scarlatti. Sonata In E – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005) – Thornhill, Ontario, Canada – http://www.accordions.com/sevastian/
* Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Saxon – Canada –
* Geoff Berner – I Call it Dead Horse – Arts Wells festival 2011
* Raghu Lokanathen – Let Me Make It Home – Arts Wells festival 2011
* Anna Bon-Bon – True Story – Arts Wells festival 2011
* The Dinning Sisters – Down in the Divin’ Bell – Sweethearts of Sun Bonnet Swing (0) – Oklahoma/Chicago, USA – http://www.dagmar-anita-binge.de/ Featured on the WLS National Barn Dance
* The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters – My Horses Ain’t Hungry – Checkerboard Squares Radio Show Recordings (194) – – All tracks are sourced from 16″ transcription discs for the Checkerboard Time Radio Show (circa 1940s?). http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/365-days-214—.html WLS National Barn Dance-ers
* Alexander Sevastian – Rachmaninoff – Scherzo from a Midsommer Night’s Dream Suite – Accordion Accordionist (radio demo) (2010) – Thornhill, Ontario, Canada – http://www.stationbleue.com
* Steve Normandin – Mon Cœur au Portugal – Swing Road (2009) – Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/stevenormandinHappy spring-time, and please, support Accordion Noir and Co-op Radio (without whom there wouldn’t be an Accordion Noir), by becoming a member. Go to http://www.AccordionNoir.org or http://www.CoopRadio.org and donate online. We really especially supporters who’ve become “sustaining” donors by arranging to donate a little bit every month. Those add up to a lot of support over the year. We love that most of all.
When you’re able to donate, please do add a comment that, “Accordion Noir sent me!” Then we know who loves squeezing.
Thanks much,
Bruce and Rowan
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Get all your Vancouver Area accordion information at:
http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.org——–
Support Accordion Noir, we love our supporters, and our supporters’ supporters – even our detractors love our supporters.
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-08-18: KlezKanada preview
The theme to this week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is klezmer music, in honour of the upcoming virtual KlezKanada workshops and festivities ahead Aug 23-29. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as streaming digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2021-08-18, KlezKanada Preview
KlezKanada.org
Summer Retreat basics:
https://klezkanada.org/summer-retreat/
Online Workshop and Virtual Performance Schedule: Mon-Fri, Aug 23-27
https://klezkanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-Brochure-Complete_715.pdf
In Person Events (Toronto, New York, Montreal / Sat-Sun, Aug 28-29)
https://klezkanada.org/featuredprogramming/in-person-programming-2021/
Faculty, including many of tonight’s Accordion Noir musicians:
https://klezkanada.org/summer-retreat/faculty/
Playlist:
* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) http://thedardanelles.com/
* Budowitz – ‟Shapiros Korohod” – The Rough Guide To Klezmer – A global diaspora kinda group from all over, you know? – http://www.budowitz.com/ Josh Horowitz, acc
* Ben Holmes & Patrick Farrell – ‟Honga” – Gold Dust (2014) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://benholmespatrickfarrell.bandcamp.com
https://www.pattysounds.com
* Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All Stars – ‟Who Knows One?” – Carnival Conspiracy (2005) – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org http://www.franklondon.com (Sanne Moericke, or Rob Curto on acc I think)
* Socalled (aka Josh Dolgin) – ‟Sleepover” – Instrumentals (A Bandcamp Bootleg) (2021) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – www.socalledmusic.comhttps://socalledmtl.bandcamp.com/album/socalled-instrumentals-bandcamp-bootleg
* Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – ‟March of the jobless corps” (at first I thought this said, “March of the Jobless Cops”, which would be an interestingly different song) – Lost Causes (2010) – Detroit, Michigan, USA / Berlin, Germany – http://www.paintedbird.net/
* Daniel Kahn – ‟To Friends” – Bulat Blues (Featuring Vanya Zhuk) (2019) – Michigan, USA / Berlin, Germany / Russia – www.DanielKahn.org
* Taraf Syriana – ‟Abdul-Kareem’s Tango” – Syria / Canada – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org
https://www.facebook.com/TarafSyriana/ Sergiu Popa, acc
* Veretski Pass – ‟Zogekhts tsum tish (Wedding Table Homily)” – The Magid Chronicles (2019) –http://www.veretskipass.com/ Joshua Horowitz, acc.
* Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko – ‟Der Cholum Fun Yid” – Klezmer from the New World (2020) – UK – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org
https://www.shades-of-folk.comwww.szilviacsaranko.de
https://shades-of-folk.bandcamp.com
* Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko – ‟Tish Nign” – Klezmer from the New World (2020)
* Anthony Russell And Veretski Pass – ‟Rosie” – Convergence (2018) – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org
https://www.anthonyrussellbass.comhttp://www.veretskipass.com/ Joshua Horowitz, acc.
* The Groanbox Boys – ‟Juliette Red Dress” – Smokestack Trilogy (2006) – London, England – http://mediamjwb.blogspot.com Michael Ward-Bergeman, acc
* Mjwb & Michael Ward-Bergeman – ‟Look to the Right (Featuring Jamey Haddad, Ryoanne McKnight, Cedrica M. Daniels & Shalita “Shae” Colbert)” – Gig 365 (2012) – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – http://mediamjwb.blogspot.com Michael Ward-Bergeman, acc
* Taraf Syriana – ‟Fog (Syrian Folk)” – Taraf Syriana Demo Fog (0) – Syria / Canada – 2021 Artists and Faculty! KlezKanada.org
https://www.facebook.com/TarafSyriana/ Sergiu Popa, acc
* KlezKanada Orchestra (450 members) – ‟KlezKanada 2017 Backwards March (Part 1)” – (2017) – Camp B’nai B’rith in Lantier, Quebec – https://youtu.be/BYIrnx3G9m4
See you at:
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2011-07-27: Arts Wells and Worlds
From ten years ago, here’s episode 242 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program. This one appears to have been a promotion of the splendid annual ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art, up in Wells/Barkerville in the interior of British Columbia, traditionally taking place during the BC Day long weekend. Like summer camp for musicians, this fest also had a knack for featuring a wide array of accordionic talent from around the province and Western Canada — forming the chewy nougat core of this episode’s programming. At its original online home, this episode logged some 5252 listens, but you can continue enjoying this recording as digital audio any time courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-07-27, Arts Wells and Worlds
* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Frode Haltli – The Letter – Passing Images (2007) – Norway – http://www.haltli.com/
* Markku Lepistö, David Munnelly, Riccardo Tesi, Bruno Le Tron, Didier Laloy – Samurai I – Accordion Samurai (2011) – Belgium, France, Finland, Ireland, Italy – http://wwww.homerecords.be/index.php
* Ana Bon-Bon & Amelia Rose Slobogean – Americano – Bon-Bon & Rose, ep. (2005) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – “The Fiddler” Amelia Rose Slobogean of Ukrainian band Zeellia, and her own group RedBoot Quartet, and cofounder of Yukon’s crazy band FISHEAD STEW.
* Blackberry Wood – Escape the Temple – Travelling Horse Opry (2008) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/blackberrywood
* Jesse Dee & Jacquie B – With Girls – Greenhouse (2009) – Edmonton, Alberta Canada – http://www.jessedeemusic.com
* Joey Only Outlaw Band – Mountain Valley Farm – Fire On Anarchist Mountain (2008) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.joeyonly.com/
* Geoff Berner – King of the Gangsters – Klezmer Mongrels (2009) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
* Nice Verdes – Rhumba Verdes – Vancouver, Canada / South Australia – http://www.musicsa.com.au/artists/niceverdes/
* Raghu Lokanathan – Homeless – Blue Girl – Victoria, BC, Canada – http://www.raghumusic.com/
* Ingrid Gatin – This One’s Easy – Live from Arts Wells 2010 – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – http://ingridgatin.com/index.html
* Geoff Berner With Diona Davies And Wayne Adams – Instrumental Weep Bride Weep – The Wedding Dance Of The Widow Bride (2007) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/index.htm
* Aaron Goodwin – Everybody Dancin’ – Arts Wells again. – Alberta, Canada – http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Aaron-goodwin
* Rusk (Frode Haltli on Accordeon) – Hurt – Denver Squeeze (Rusk II) (2006) – Norway (Oslo?) – http://www.haltli.com/Tonight’s cover illustration is: Ana Bon-Bon! from http://www.myspace.com/anabonbon/photos
Happy spring-time, and please, support Accordion Noir and Co-op Radio (without whom there wouldn’t be an Accordion Noir), by becoming a member. Go to http://www.AccordionNoir.org or http://www.CoopRadio.org and donate online. We really especially supporters who’ve become “sustaining” donors by arranging to donate a little bit every month. Those add up to a lot of support over the year. We love that most of all.
When you’re able to donate, please do add a comment that, “Accordion Noir sent me!” Then we know who loves squeezing.
Thanks much,
Bruce and Rowan
——–
Get all your Vancouver Area accordion information at:
http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.orgSupport Accordion Noir, we love our supporters, and our supporters’ supporters – even our detractors love our supporters.
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 Twitter (@AccordionNoir and @AccordionBruce), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
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