Accordion Noir radio playlist 2020-09-23: Is it 2016 yet?

AccNoir 2020-09-23

The Diana Lachiondo campaign for County Commissioner in Boise Idaho has this Basque immigrant accordion T-Shirt available, which I will support! (Rowan notes however: that’s no trikitixa!)
https://www.lachiondo4ada.com/store

As is often the case, Bruce’s choice of title for this week’s episode of CFRO’s Accordion Noir radio program is simply too clever for me. Is he suggesting that the past four years have simply been some bad fever dream? If you read between the lines you can make out current headlines in his song selections, with this week’s batch of music churning beneath the surface with undercurrents of social unrest at the police brutality and the failure of the criminal justice system. (And people used to dismiss accordions as fit only for frivolous and upbeat champagne music!) In any case, if you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscription you can listen to it here, courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

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• Ratas En Zelo – Policia – R.E.Z. Batera (I think that’s the title of the EP) (2015) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – https://www.facebook.com/ratasenzelo https://soundcloud.com/r-e-z-batera
• A.E. Bridger – Middle of the Night – Museum (2015) – St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.aebridger.com
• Olla Vogala – Mijn hoofd is nog te klein – Marcel (2008) – Belgium – Anne niepold: Diatonic Accordion http://www.anneniepold.be
• Alanna Gurr – Take Me Out – Oh, Horsefeathers (2011) – Guelph, Ontario, Canada – http://alannagurr.bandcamp.com
• Sam Reider – The Murder – Too Hot To Sleep – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://www.samreidermusic.com
• Dave Specter – Rumba & Tonic – Spectified (2010) – East Los Angeles, California, USA – With David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, acc. http://www.DaveSpecter.com
• The Jerry Cans – Ilatiit – Nunavuttitut (2013) – Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada – http://thejerrycans.com/
• Tomás San Miguel + Txalaparta – Noche De San Juán – Dan_Txa (2005) – Madrid, Spain / Basque / Berlin – http://www.tomassanmiguel.com
• The Negro Problem – If You Would Have Traveled On The 93 North Today – Post Minstrel Syndrome (2009) – Los Angeles, California, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_(musician) Jill Meschke, electric acc.
• Clifton Chenier – Instrumental – Squeezebox Boogie (live) (1978) – Rising Sun Club, Montreal, Canada –
• Vilda – Skállovárri – Vildaluodda (2019) – Finland – http://www.bafesfactory.fi/vilda Watch Vildá’s videos! http://www.saurabooking.com/en/artist/vilda/
• Baby Dee – My Very Own Police Force (just like Rudy’s) – Rudolph the Disgruntled Reindeer (2000) – Cleveland, Ohio, USA – http://www.babydee.org

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-09-15: Accordion Noir Fest III!

Ten years ago we were hyping up the third instalment of our annual accordion festival.  (This year’s is coming up, in a couple of months, and we should have some announcements for you within the next couple of weeks.)  It was a week-long affair — basically Rowan saw a number of consecutive nights available at a series of free venues and resolved, if he had to go out in a blaze of glory, to tap all the local squeezebox talent available to fill them all.  We weren’t quite sure what we were going to get, even after we had announced the shows, but we were able to at least promote the known unknowns here on episode 196 of our radio program.  At its original online home it was clocked at having been listened to 7140 times — surely more exposure to the music than to all the live audience members in all the rooms! — but due to their overall merit, we’re sure that that massive number will only continue to swell over time through listens to its new online home at the Internet Archive, where you can hear it today!  Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2010-09-15, Accordion Noir Festival III with foul language episode!

(That’s just the kind of accordionists we know I guess. Not for the faint of ear. I’m not sure why all our swearing songs got played tonight, maybe it’s our later noir-er time-slot? You can broadcast these in Canada if you warn people and it’s late-night, and artistically valid or something. Be warned, only listen at night. Also, come to our festival, it’s gonna be fun!)

* Geoff Berner – In the Year 2020 – We Shall Not Flag Or Fail, We Shall Go On To The End (2003) – Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com
* Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (short version, 1:06) – Accordion Noir (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – recorded special just for our show! More, http://www.andyfielding.com/temp/visigoth.pdf
* Ursula – Seawitch – Ursula (2007) – British Columbia, Canada – ursula.tk http://www.myspace.com/ursulaofthesea
* Creaking Planks – I Want You But I Don’t Need You – Accordion Noir: first early (9:30 pm) show (2007) – Canada – With added Rowan!http://ca.geocities.com/creakingplanks/ http://www.myspace.com/creakingplanks
* Accordion Noir – Maria in the Shower stinger – Maria in the Shower with Jeff and Martin (2010)
* Maria in the Shower – Amazing Grace  – Vancouver, BC, Canada –
* Something About Reptiles – Biz Camlicanin Ug Guluyuz – From Instanbul To Orangeville (2000) – Canada – http://www.myspace.com/reptilesband
* Mezamazing – Mezamazing Kidney song AccNoir-2008-06-13 – Mezamazing! Live on Accordion Noir, June 13, 2008 (2008) – – http://myspace.com/mezamazing
* Creaking Planks – Interlude – TBA: VIVO Sessions (2008) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Unreleased tracks, from upcoming album?
* Geoff Berner – Shut In – Klezmer Mongrels (2009) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
* Geoff Berner – And Promises To Break Before I Sleep – Whiskey Rabbi (2005) – Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com
* Geoff Berner – Fukher – Klezmer Mongrels (2009) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
* Mark Berube – War Without An End – What The River Gave The Boat (2007) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada –
* Fugitives – Microphone – In Streetlight Communication (2007) – Vancouver, Canada – http://www.fugitives.ca/
* Ursula – Old Rub – Ursula (2007) – British Columbia, Canada – ursula.tk http://www.myspace.com/ursulaofthesea

This episode’s cover is: The swell Accordion Noir Festival banner, with no swearing on it.

(Oh, and yeah, I’m a few weeks behind on posting episodes. I’ll try to catch up now that the Festival preparation is winding down.)

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It’s the 2010 Accordion Noir Festival!
September 19-26!

Events all week! Kick-off Parade on Sunday the 19th!
Bring Your Accordion!

More information and complete schedules: http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.org

See you there!

CFRO’s weekly Wednesday night Accordion Noir radio show / podcast, in conjunction with local accordion rebel Geoff Berner (Klezmer Mongrels, 2009) presents the 3rd annual Accordion Noir Festival, eight days of varied programming trying its darnedest to redeem the reputation of the long-dismissed squeezebox.

A schedule follows; for full details, please visit the website at http://bit.ly/ANfest , or see descriptions below.

Sun Sept 19: 7 pm Kick-off Accordion Parade! from Napier and Commercial to the 9 pm festival launch party at Cafe Deux Soleils (2096 Commercial Drive at 5th) — with discounted admission if you turn up with the parade wearing a squeezebox!

Mon Sept 20: 8-10 pm intimate solo sets (by donation) at Trees in Yaletown (1391 Richards Street at Pacific)

Tues Sept 21: 8-10 pm more fab solo sets, at Trees in Yaletown (1391 Richards Street at Pacific)

Wed Sept 22: 9 pm Accordion super heros the Fugitives with Mark Berube (returning to our squeezey city from the evil East.) at the WISE Hall (1882 Adanac at Victoria)

Thurs Sept 23: 8-10 pm short films, a CD launch, and multimedia performances at Spartacus Books everyone’s favorite radical bookstore, and home of our Vancouver’s monthly Squeezebox Circle (684 E. Hastings at Heatley)

Fri Sept 24: 8 pm Squeezebox Dance Party at the Grandview Legion featuring sets from: the “jug band of the damned” the Creaking Planks; the Orkestar Slivovica; Maria in the Shower; and Mezamazing – the Balkan dance band that inspired the cops to visit last year’s festival. In accordion-bicycle solidarity (the two profoundest mechanical inventions of the 1800s), Critical Mass riders wearing their helmets will have a discount on admission. (2205 Commercial Drive, upstairs)

Sat Sept 25: 8 pm The Festival’s Mainstage performances pull out all the stops with: siren songs from Vancouver Island’s Ursula, raving Turkish insanity from Something About Reptiles, and booze-fuelled wisdom from the whisky rabbi Geoff Berner. Strathcona Ukrainian Hall (805 E. Pender Street at Hawks)

Sun Sept 26: 8 pm “Intimate Blowout” festival closing party at Cafe Montmartre with friends from last year’s fest and a few new faces chiming in, by donation. (4362 Main Street at 28th)

* BONUS! Monday, Sept 27th, accordionist and one-man-band par excellence Scotty Dunbar launches his double CD at the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir at Seymour,) upstairs) with T. Nile and friends. 8:30, $8/6 for Railway members.

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Accordion Noir Global Video Tour: 2020-09-16

Last Week on Accordion Noir Radio we played a bunch of tunes with videos. I figured I’d gather them together to share here. (Subscribe to the Apple or Android podcast so you won’t miss future action-packed episodes!)

FRENCH DUO LES ZÉOLES

I just heard of Les Zéoles this week. Amélie Denarié (diatonic acc) and Anne Guinot (piano acc) play a modern traditional style that reminds me of the Belgian groups I love so much. Les Zéoles have several great live videos, and the dramatized one we played on the show was Mary Poppins, Urban Rhapsodie 

COLOMBIAN SUPERHERO SHAKIRA

Can’t recall how I stumbled on Rob Weinert-Kendt’s Train My Ear blog, but his page about international rockstar Shakira let me in on her amazing Te Aviso, Te Anunico (Tango) from her Laundry Service (2001) record. There’s an English version of the video, but this is the Spanish cut. Who else has the range to go from Tango dancing, to surf-rock watusi, to cartoon super-hero bar-fight? Crash! Bam! Pow!

“NOITE QUENTE,” ALICE MARCONE

The great Country Queer website introduced me to Brazil’s incredibly popular sertanejo country style, which sometimes includes accordion and has several popular queer artists. It’s a great day when I learn of a whole new accordion genre! (Brazil alone is so vast that it has at least two other rich accordion styles in forró from the Northeast and chamamé from the Southern Argentine, Paraguayan, Uruguayan border region (I think).

Anyways, this week Country Queer covered trans sertanejo artist Alice Marcone, and her romantic-werewolf-accordion tune “Noite Quente” (torrid night). The video is not to be missed, so read CQ’s great review and the video we couldn’t show on the radio.

SIMEONIE KEENAINAK AND UKALIQ & KALLA from Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic

Going from Brazil to the Canadian Arctic, Simeonie Keenainak is probably the most famous Inuit accordionist. His version of the Liberty Polka opens every episode of Ukaliq & Kalla / ᐅᑲᓕᖅ ᑲᓪᓚᓗ, the Inuktitut language children’s TV show on IsumaTV (Nunavut Independent Inuit Broadcasting).

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I don’t know how to show this video 📺🤷🏻‍♂️, so click this link to watch episodes of the cartoon. The opening sequence with the quick polka has Ukaliq the rabbit and Kalla (a lemming) dancing Inuit-style with a shifting background. They keep going out on the snow, at home, in a summer hunting-camp site, and with a mountain view under the golden Arctic sky with the sun below the horizon.

The animation reminds me of the Inuit square dance tradition where musicians might play a single tune for hours, until the dancers can’t dance any more. Like Ukaliq and Kalla, the same song and dance plays inside, outside, day and night, carrying tradition wherever they go.

This cool project supports young (and grown up) speakers and learners of one of the principle Inuit languages. Inuktitut is well known as tricky to pick up. The Jerry Cans, from Iqaluit, Nunavut, have a funny song Qanuinngittug about learning Inuktitut while constantly making mistakes. Meaningful cartoons, songs, and lessons for life.

PAULINE OLIVEROS AND CECIL TAYLOR!

The last track on the show was a terrific long performance of avant-garde electronic music pioneer / accordionist Pauline Oliveros, with free-jazz icon Cecil Taylor! Wonderful that this took place and that a recording exists! It’s from the 2008 opening celebration at EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

They also have a Pauline Oliveros solo performance from the same event that we didn’t play on the show. Bonus for Accordion Uprising readers!

We don’t always have video accompaniment for our show, but it seemed worthwhile to share it here. You can listen to the whole episode, and we’ll see you next week!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2020-09-16: Is it the Apocalypse Yet?

AccNoir 2020-09-16

It’s the End of the World Accordion to Garp

Addendum: Bruce put together all the videos we played on this episode (with commentary) for you to watch over here 📺 👀!

“I didn’t do a show on the fire and smoke, Didn’t we do that last year? Instead we’ve got a video special, with many audio-visual options.” We didn’t explicitly dip into the doom and gloom enveloping us — the miasma of social unrest as well as the choking clouds of forest fire smoke lovingly layered on top of the pandemic panic — but rather allowed the collective subconscious to express it, by taking programming suggestions from our extensive surveillance of the use of the word “accordion” on Twitter. In a sense, large portions of this episode were thus crowd-sourced, even if unintentionally on the part of the sources. (Hey, they wanted people to hear these songs — well, they got more than they asked for!) Anyhow, if you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscription you can enjoy listening to it courtesy of the Internet Archive.

Here’s its playlist:

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• Les Zéoles – Mary Poppins – Urban Rhapsodie (2015) – Montpellier, France – http://leszeoles.net Amélie Denarié, diatonic acc; Anne Guinot, piano acc
• Roddie Romero & The Hub City All-Stars – One Trick Pony – Gulfstream (2016) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – http://www.RoddieRomero.com
• H’Sao – Sao – Vol 235 (2009) – Chad, Central Africa / Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.hsao.ca/en
  Israel Rimtobaye, acc. (or piano)
• Shakira – Te Aviso, Te Anunico (Tango) – Laundry Service (2001) – Barranquilla, Colombia – http://trainmyear.blogspot.com/2020/09/three-by-shakira.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundry_Service http://www.Shakira.com
• Alice Marcone – Noite Quente – (2020) – Brazil – https://countryqueer.com/video-review/noite-quente-alice-marcone/ http://www.facebook.com/alicemarconecantora
• Simeonie Keenainak – Liberty Polka (Ukaliq & Kalla opening tune) – Ukaliq & Kalla / ᐅᑲᓕᖅ ᑲᓪᓚᓗ, IsumaTV, Nunavut Independent Inuit Broadcasting (0) – Nunavut, Canada – From the very cool children’s cartoon in the Inuit language Inuktitut. http://www.isuma.tv http://www.isuma.tv/taqqutproductions/ukaliq-kalla-s01e01-egg-picking-ᐅᑲᓕᖅ-ᑲᓪᓚᓗ-s01e01
• Geoff Berner – Slouching Towards Bremen – We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians (2015) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
• Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros – Live Duet at EMPAC – At the opening of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. (2008) – New York / California, USA – https://opening.empac.rpi.edu/gala/tayloroliveros.html https://vimeo.com/193425308 http://www.deeplistening.org

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-09-08: Smoothly Shaven

When Rowan picked up the accordion, he had a lush, Samsonian beard that unrolled luxuriously somewhere south of his navel.  After he started squeezing that box, it thinned out considerably.  Now he keeps his facial coiffure closely cropped.  Why are we discussing his personal grooming in relation to his musical practice?  I guess both the mega barbe and the accordion became iconically associated with him, but due to the epilatory effects of the bellows-pumping action, something had to give.  Ten years ago, Rowan was ritually shorn in front of the entire village of Wells, as part of a fundraiser for its annual ArtsWells festival.  I suppose upon his return, Bruce was sufficiently shocked that he named this episode, number 195, of our weekly radio program in honour of the milestone.  At its original online home it clocked some 6345 listens, and you can enjoy listening to it online today courtesy of the Internet Archive.  Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2010-09-08, Smoothly Shaven

* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (medium version, 1:47) – Accordion Noir (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – recorded special just for our show! More, http://www.andyfielding.com/temp/visigoth.pdf
* Jacques Pellarin Trio – L’Ephemère – Sound of Philadelphia (200) – St. Genix sur Guiers, France – http://www.jacquespellarin.fr
* Dave Specter – Rumba & Tonic – Spectified (2010) – Chicago, Illinois, USA – (With David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, acc.) – http://www.DaveSpecter.com
* La Strada – The Mountain Song – New Home (2010) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – http://www.myspace.com/lastradanyc
* Billy Bragg – The marching song of the covert battalions – The Internationale (2006) – United Kingdom – http://www.billybragg.co.uk/
* Humphery Bogart and Jennifer Jones – “It made you seem less dead.” – Beat the Devil (1954)
* Hill of Beans – Satan Lend Me a Dollar – (1990) – Los Angeles, California, USA – http://www.abelincolnstory.com/hillofbeans.htm
* Accordion Crimes – So This Accordion Walks Into A Bar… – Accordion Crimes (2005) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.accordioncrimes.ca/
* Kate Maki – Crossfire – Two Song Wedding (2010) – Sudbury, Ontario, Canada – http://www.katemaki.com
* The Mad Maggies – Morning Star – Skull & Magpies (2009) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.theMadMaggies.com
* One Ring Zero – Malthsuian Picnic – Live At Barbès (2008) – Virgina / Brooklyn, New York, USA – http://www.oneringzero.com/
* Chicha Libre – Sonido Amazonico – Sonido Amazonico final Master – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – Josh Camp (One Ring Zero), Hohner Electrovox accordion http://www.barbesrecords.com/chicha.html http://www.barbesrecords.com/chicha.html
* Carson Sisters – saxophone accordion 1930s – Wish I knew where this was from?
* Mark Berube & the Patriotic Few – Tailored To Fit – Tailored To Fit [EP] (2010) – Vancouver / Toronto, Canada – http://www.markberube.com/

This episode is named for the fact that Rowan auctioned off his beard to raise funds for the Arts Wells festival > after our provincial government spent our children’s inheritance and (also) cut all provincial arts funding after giving six billion dollars to Olympic profiteers. (Don’t let your economy be next.) Our cover is in honour of Rowan’s own sacrifice for all that olympic “glory.”

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2020-09-09: Niner-Niner

Two weeks ago, Bruce prepared this pre-recorded episode for airplay, in case he wasn’t feeling up to hosting a show live on the air following his recent scheduled medical business. Well, I don’t know if he wasn’t feeling well enough, or if he just didn’t want to allow it to cut into his Twitter mania, but either way the pre-recorded episode aired this week at our usual 10 pm PST Wednesday time slot. (Its announcement online was delayed because the co-host Rowan went in for an unplanned root canal! It’s just a highly medicalized time of year, I guess!) It’s a great mix of different styles of squeezebox music in wildly different genres from very different parts of the world. If you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscription (and further podcast directory listing is on its way!), you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

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• Ksenija Sidorova – Romance – Ad libitum… (0) – Latvia, London, England
• Something About Reptiles – Yildizlarin Altinda – From Instanbul To Orangeville (2000) – Canada – http://www.myspace.com/reptilesband
• Lost Bayou Ramblers – Vermillionaire – Rodents of Unusual Size (Music from the Motion Picture) (2019) – Louisiana, USA – Visit http://lostbayouramblers.bandcamp.com
• Chango Family – Crapet Soleil – Babylon Bypass – Cd Live (2005) – Montréal, Québec, Canada / Paris, France – http://www.lachangofamily.com/
• This Way To The Egress – Lucy, a story about your mother. – Great balancing act (2014) – Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA – http://thiswaytotheegress.com
• Eloise & Co. – Barracuda / Turtles In The Sinkhole – More, Please! (2018) – Pennsylvania, USA – http://www.RachelBellMusic.com
• Tango Paradiso – Tanga de Gaia – (2005) – Argentina? Canada –
• Guy Klucevsek – Birthday Waltz Elegy – Vignettes (Short Pieces for Accordion): Bonus Recordings + PDF Book of Scores (2020) – New York, USA – http://www.guyklucevsek.com/ https://www.starkland.com/GKM110/index.htm
• Leon Sash – Meant For Brent – Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport (1957) – Chicago, Illinois, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_and_Leon_Sash_at_Newport Leon Sash acc, Ted Robinson sax/clr, Lee Morgan bs, Roger Price dr
• KV Express – Polska Des Pineau – Zafon (2016) – Belgium – http://www.homerecords.be https://homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com/album/zafon Sophie Cavez, acc., Didier Francois, Nyckleharpa
• Lau – I Don’t Want To Die Here – Live Series 1.0 (2020) – UK – https://revealrecords.bandcamp.com/music?filter_band=2156348365 http://www.lau-music.co.uk
• The Tiger Lillies – Second Wave – COVID-19 vol.II (2020) – London, England, UK – http://www.tigerlillies.com http://thetigerlillies.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. Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-09-01: Raise the Titano!

From ten years ago, here’s episode 194 of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program.  At its original online home, it was tracked at having been listened to (and surely enjoyed!) 4820 times over the better part of a decade.  As per our usual, it features a wide variety of musical styles from all parts — this time around, including musical selections from four continents.  You can continue enjoying its distinctive sound courtesy of the Internet Archive.  Here’s its playlist: 

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* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Polkacide – Frailichs 1 & 2 – Hardcore 2/4 (1999) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.polkacide.com/
* Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (medium version, 1:47) – Accordion Noir (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – recorded special just for our show! More, http://www.andyfielding.com/temp/visigoth.pdf
* Tony O’Leary – Cooley’s Reel/Merry Blacksmith – Pump The Box (2006) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.tonyolearymusic.ca/
* La Bottine Souriante – Dans nos vieilles maisons – Quebec, Canada – http://www.bottinesouriante.com/
* Le Vent Du Nord – L’heure Bleue – Dans Les Airs (2007) – Québec, Canada – leventdunard.com
* Gloria Deluxe – Ballad Of The Cherry Blossoms – Devotionals (Songs For Shunkin) (2001) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – Cynthia Hopkins, acc. http://www.gloriadeluxe.com/home/index.html
* Rosapaeda – O Re Re – Miele Remix – Mater (2007) – Italy – http://www.rosapaeda.it/ http://www.felmay.it/main.php?ricerca=accordion
* Fernando Otero – Siempre Amor — Las Ruedas Siguen Girando – Pagina De Buenos Aires (2007) – Argentina – http://www.fernandootero.com/
* Mie Miki, accordion / Nobuko Imai, viola – Duo – Into the Depth of Time (1998) – Japan – http://www.geocities.jp/miemiki_classical_accordion/
* Einmal Kommt Die Liebe – Sorgen En Vintermorgen – Røversanger (2006) – Oslo, Norway – http://www.myspace.com/einmalkommtdieliebe
* Tin Hat Trio – Things That Might Have Been – Book Of Silk (2004) – San Francisco, California, USA – http://www.tinhattrio.com
* Groanbox Boys – Beneath A Dark Veil Of Needles – Gran Bwa (2008) – London, England – http://www.groanboxboys.com/

This episode’s cover is: a Titano Combo-Cordion! The last best-hope of the accordion to catch the wave of Rock and Roll Wipe out! They’re pretty cool though. (Related to the Tiger Combo-Cordion model, and similarly unsuccessful.)
http://acclab.com/index.htm

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Get all your Vancouver Area accordion-festival information at:
http://www.SqueezeboxCircle.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 2020-09-02: Post-op Pre-Record

AccNoir 2020-09-02

Once and future Accordion Babe pin-up calendar girl Skyler Fell of Accordion Apocalypse. In fact, she is this month’s calendar girl in the 2020 calendar!

Yesterday Accordion Noir host “Accordion” Bruce Triggs went in for a minor scheduled surgical procedure, and was out of commission (by which I mean, madly Tweeting) during our usual broadcast hours. He put together this pre-recorded episode to air during his recuperation, and it went out over the airwaves last night! It is also available online — if you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscription (and further podcast directory listing is on its way!), you can listen to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2020-09-02, 100th Birthday Greetings for Leonid Shvartsman from Crocodile Gena

• Jordi Rosen – Monkeys And Monks – Lotus (2005) – Montréal, Québec, Canada –
• Children’s Choir – Crocodile Gena’s Birthday Song – Video of a Russian children’s choir singing to Leonid Shvartsman on his 100th birthday – Russia – The song they sing at every Russian birthday party, sung to the animation icon who brought Crocodile Gena to life – https://twitter.com/AbarasKrysa/status/1300450097482866688
• Jason Webley – Crocodile Gena’s Birthday Song – Only Just Beginning (bonus track?) (0) – Everett, Washington, USA – http://www.jasonwebley.com (rumored to be a bonus track at the beginning of the Only Just Beginning album, but not on the version I have)
• Nathalie Natiembé – Cilaos – Sankèr (2005) – Reunion Island, (East of Madagascar), Africa – Régis Gizavo, acc
• Sister Species – Light Exchanges – Light Exchanges (2020) – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – http://www.sisterspecies.com http://sisterspecies.bandcamp.com
• John Spiers and the Virtually Shrewsbury Folk Festival Big Band – Gallons of Brandy / Fox Tell – #IsolationPubSession (2020) – UK – http://www.johnspiers.co.uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0G83yJnxO0&feature=youtu.be Support the Shrewsbury Folk Festival http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/support-shrewsbury-folk-festival
• Calan – Ryan Jigs – Deg / 10 (compilation) (2018) – Wales – https://www.calan-band.com Bethan Rhiannon, piano acc
• Angel D’‘Agostino Y Su Orquesta Tipica – Madreselva – El Tango: pasión y emoción Vol. 10 (2010) – Argentina – https://www.milonga.co.uk/tango/pasion_y_emocion.shtml
  (The tango I had as “Mas solo que nunca” is actually “Madreselva,” performed by Angel D’Agostino’s orchestra, sung by Angel Vargas in I believe, 1944. Now I have to find a copy of “May solo que nunca,” that’s a good one.)
• Daniel Binelli, Linda Lee Thomas – Metropolis – Tango De Buenos Aires (2010) – Argentina – Vancouver, BC Canada – http://www.cbcrecords.cbc.ca
• Kolessa – A song to the road, like they sing in the temples back home – On earth, as it is (2020) – New Haven, Connecticut, USA – http://kolessa.bandcamp.com Adam Matlock, acc.
• Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra – Sam Ash Tango – Seven Good Years (2009) – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/theyiddishcolumbiastateorchestra

Here’s the Russian children’s choir singing Crocodile Gena’s Birthday Song to animator Leonid Shvartsman on his 100th birthday:
https://twitter.com/AbarasKrysa/status/1300450097482866688

Support the Shrewsbury Folk Festival (who paid artists to perform virtually!)
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/support-shrewsbury-folk-festival

And “Controversy as Tango World Championship moves online due to virus” from the Buenos Aires Times:
https://batimes.com.ar/news/culture/argentinas-tango-world-championships-moves-online-due-to-virus.phtml

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 (coming up in November, we are hammering out details and will have more to announce soon), and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle (this week, one more time at MacLean Park, if weather permits!) Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-08-25: Ticket Giveaway Winner!

From ten years ago, here’s episode 193 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program, sharing the latest and greatest alt-squeezebox music from wildly variant musical traditions situated all over the planet!  At its original online home this episode counted some 6229 listens, and you can continue enjoying it today as part of over 600 hours of our program’s back catalogue over at the Internet Archive, perhaps the single largest concentration of accordion music ever amassed in the world.  Anyway, here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2010-08-25, Bonnie Won our Ticket Giveaway!

* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Terhi Puronaho & Timo Alakotila – Häämarssi – Aatos (2008) – Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland – http://www.myspace.com/terhipuronaho
* Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (medium version, 1:47) – Accordion Noir (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – recorded special just for our show! More, http://www.andyfielding.com/temp/visigoth.pdf
* Monsieur Camembert (after Leonard Cohen) – Who By Fire – Canada? –
* Djin Teeth (Fangs) – Bloodbuxum River – Auntie Eunice’s Unmentionables (2004) – Portland, Oregon, USA – http://www.myspace.com/djinteethfangs http://www.pukekos.org/2008/04/djin-teeth-fangs.html
* Po’ Girl – Maudite Guerre – Follow Your Bliss (2010) – Canada – http://www.pogirl.net/
* Betty White’s How to Dance Course – Heel and Toe, Skater’s Position (Man and Woman) – How to POLKA (1960)
* Poolside Tricks – Monkey Man – Shedlockz (2007) – Welshpool, UK – http://www.myspace.com/poolsidetricks
* They Might Be Giants – Purple Toupee – Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants (Disc 2) (1989) – http://www.theymightbegiants.com/
* Bill Haley – Rovin’ Eyes – From Western Swing To R-O-C-K (1949) – – First Rock and Roll record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_rock_and_roll_record
* Courtney Farquhar – Daydream – Nowhere I’d Rather Be (2009) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Tom Szczensniak, acc. http://www.listentocourtney.com
* Anthony Galla-Rini – Come Back to Sorrento – Galla-Rini, and his Accordion, accompanied by Charlotte Laughton Tinsley at the Harp (0) – From an album of three 78 rpm records. http://stores.shop.ebay.com/The-Classical-Free-Reed-Inc__W0QQ_armrsZ1
* Charanga Cakewalk – Acebo – Loteria de la Cumbia Lounge (2004) – Austin, Texas, USA – http://www.charangacakewalk.com/
* Rob Reich – The Balancing Act – The Balancing Act (2008) – San Francisco, California, USA – http://www.robreich.com/
* Tescoe Value (Czeslaw Spiewa) – Fischikella (crackles/distorition, cool song) – Copenhagen, Netherlands/Kraków, Poland – czeslawspiewa.com http://www.myspace.com/czeslawspiewa
* Terhi Puronaho & Timo Alakotila – Tuomaalan Polskat 1&2 – Aatos (2008) – Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland – http://www.myspace.com/terhipuronaho

This episode’s cover is: from Los Viajes del Viento, one of the most fabulous best movies about accordions (especially with bull horns on). Do go see it!

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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 2020-08-26: More and More and More or Less

AccNoir 2020-08-26

Here it is, this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast! This week there are tunes from, well, all over, but with a little extra emphasis on Wisconsin and Quebec. If you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscription (and further podcast directory listing is on its way!), you can listen to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2020-08-26, More and More and More or Less

• Canailles – Chu Brûlé Featuring Christian Lagueux – Backflips (2017) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – https://canailles.bandcamp.com
• Greg Pagel – It’s Hard Work – Plastic Machine Music (2005) – Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA – http://www.GregPagel.com
• The Scarring Party – Left Hand Tied – Come Away From the Light (2008) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – http://www.scarringparty.com/
• Aurochs – Four – Another Helpful Medicine (2016) – Toronto, Ontario – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.AurochMusic.com Ali Berkok, acc.
• Geoff Berner – What Kind of Bear am I – Geoff Berner Live at Or Shalom, 2020-05-10 (2020) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://youtu.be/DFrQpcqPSJg http://www.geoffberner.com
• Lankum – The Granite Gaze – Between The Earth And Sky (2017) – Dublin, Ireland – http://lankumdublin.com
• The Shee – Down In The Broom – Murmurations (2015) – Scotland (mostly) – http://theshee.bandcamp.com https://theshee.com Amy Thatcher, piano acc.
• ＭＵＭ – I’m 9 Today – Asthmatic Worm (2002) – Iceland? – (You might find copies of this online. Cool record.)
• The Walking Hellos – Dividing Line – (2014) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://walkinghellos.bandcamp.com Rose Thompson (of Babe the Blue Ox), bass; Myla Goldberg, acc
• Muhal Richard Abrams, Mark Feldman, Tony Cedras, Marty Ehrlich, Patience Higgins, Eddie Allen, Anne Lebaron, Lindsay Horner, Bryon Carrott & Reggie Nicholson – One Line, Two Views – Muhal Richard Abrams: One Line, Two Views (1995) – USA / South Africa – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhal_Richard_Abrams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cedras

(The Lankum article Bruce mentioned:

“Get to know Lankum’s sound engineer, John Murphy of Guerrilla Studios” – Orange Amps blog
https://orangeamps.com/articles/get-to-know-lankums-sound-engineer-john-murphy-of-guerrilla-studios/ )

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. Catch our co-host Rowan squeezing tomorrow at this week’s Accordion Friday videostream at 5 pm PST! Cheers & squeeze on!