Accordion Noir radio playlist: 2021-04-14, Zilphia Horton’s 111th Birthday, with author Kim Ruehl
For the latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program, Bruce celebrated the birthday of musical activist and organizer Zilphia Horton, not just with Zilphia’s accordion music but with an interview with author Kim Ruehl, whose book A Singing Army – Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School, was just published! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen to it online courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2021-04-14, Zilphia Horton’s 111th Birthday, with author Kim Ruehl
Zilphia Horton: Labor and Civil Rights 🪗 Icon
(April 14, 1910 – April 11, 1956)
- Zilphia Horton 🪗 – ‟We Will Overcome” – Songs recorded at the Highlander Folk School: disc 5 of 23, Instantaneous Disc FD-20361/750 (1940s?) – Tennessee, USA – http://www.highlandercenter.org Wilson Library, University of North Carolina https://library.unc.edu/wilson/ Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20361/ Highlander Research and Education Center’s Audiovisual Materials, 1937-2008 (The “finding aid” page has links to some songs way down at the bottom.)
- Zilphia Horton 🪗 – ‟When the New World is Revealed” – Songs recorded at the Highlander Folk School: disc 5 of 23, Instantaneous Disc FD-20361/750 (1940s?) – Tennessee, USA
- The Almanac Singers – ‟Round and Round Hitler’s Grave ” – Talking Union: Original 1941-1942 Recordings (1942) – New York City, NY, USA – From “Dear Mr. President,” Keynote Album K-111. Pete Seeger, Millard Lampell, Arthur Stern, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham 🪗 , Bess Lomax Hawes, Baldwin ‘Butch’ Hawes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanac_Singers
- Maria Dunn 🪗 – ‟Can you blame the poor miner?” – We were good people (2004) – Alberta, Canada – http://mariadunn.com
- Emit Valentine 🪗 – ‟Sweet Bye and Bye” – Centerville, Franklin County, North Carolina, USA – Collected by Thomas Carter in 1971 – Southern Folklife Collection – Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/wilson/ Joe hill parodied this song in his “Preacher and the Slave” (1911), “There’ll be Pie in the Sky, by and by, that’s a lie.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave - Zilphia Horton 🪗 – ‟We’re Gonna Roll the Union On” – Songs recorded at the Highlander Folk School: disc 5 of 23, Instantaneous Disc FD-20361/750 (1940s?) – Tennessee, USA
- Zilphia Horton 🪗 – ‟We Shall Not Be Moved” – Songs recorded at the Highlander Folk School: disc 7 of 23, Instantaneous Disc FD-20361/752 (1940s?) – Tennessee, USA – I presume the singers refer to Philip Murray, one-time child coal-miner who grew to be president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He died in 1952 so the recording probably predates that? https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/philip-murray
- Rhiannon Giddens (with Francesco Turristi 🪗) – ‟I Shall Not Be Moved” – They’re Calling Me Home (2018) – Nashville, Tennessee, USA / Ireland – https://rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com http://www.rhiannongiddens.com
Zilphia Horton Links:
Highlander Center, New Market, Tennessee
http://www.highlandercenter.org
A Singing Army author: Kim Ruehl
Kim Ruehl’s Zilphia Horton “Singing Army” playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Gm1rekX3fQJgJBXlXuoch?si=5fj0Nnu9QPayQ8vL3bKr8g
Link to Kim’s Zilphia Horton crowdfunder from ten years ago, with its swell video teaser where Bruce first heard of Zilphia:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1639044940/kim-ruehl-is-writing-a-book-about-zilphia-horton?ref=search
Historical Zilphia Horton Highlander recordings:
Southern Folklife Collection
Wilson Library, University of North Carolina
https://library.unc.edu/wilson/
Highlander Research and Education Center’s Audiovisual Materials, 1937-2008
Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20361 (This has song links way down at the bottom.)
Special thanks to Kim: I’d never heard these recordings of Zilphia leading songs with her accordion.
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Where to Order A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School
Start perhaps at Bookshop.org in the US, and Wordery.com internationally
I’ve collected a long list of other (mostly not Amazon) book ordering links for my own book. All would be good places to order Kim’s.
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/accordion-revolution-buying-the-book/
And if you like a book, ask your local library to acquire a copy! Here’s instructions, again for my book, but applicable to any: https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/requesting-accordion-revolution-at-your-library/
And finally:
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There’s not a lot exceptional I can tell you about episode 225 of our weekly broadcast ten years ago other than that it was more of the great stuff, twice as much of it as usual to be exact, a two-hour program on no particular theme on the occasion of our parent radio station CFRO’s spring member drive (which, it’s worth noting, still takes place this time of year a decade on, starting this Thursday — if you like you can get an early start on your station membership!) … anyhow, at its original online home it tracked some 9735 listens, and we just know it will continue pulling in those ridiculous numbers at its new forever home courtesy of the Internet Archive, where you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio until the heat death of the universe. Anyway, here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-04-06, Extra Super Double-Noir Fund-raiser
* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Zeellia – Oj Ne Khody Hrytzju = Don’t Go Hrytz – Zeellía (1998) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.zeellia.com
* SqueezePlay – Rubber Horn – SqueezePlay (200) – Vancouver, BC, Canada / Germany – Douglas Schmidt, acc. Shauna Rolston, Cello. Adrienne Park, Piano. David Carlisle, Percussion.
* Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski – Les Yeux Parlent Plus Que La Couleur Des Cheveux – Cinéma Novo (2008) – Belgium – http://www.homerecords.be/anglais/en_MFH/en_cinema.php
* Sarakina – Sarakina´s Tale – Junctions – Sarakina (2004) – Poland, Balkan – http://sarakina.fm.interia.pl/
* Turab – Jenin – Hada Leil (2006) – Palestine – http://www.turab.ps/ http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/art/turab.html Mohamed Quttati- Accordion
* Jorgen Sundeqvist & Hakan Dahlen – Anthony Galla-Rini Concerto – I Allegro Moderato Con Passione – Bellows & Pipes (2005) – –
* Ellery Eskelin with Adreas Parkins, Jim Black – We See – The Secret Museum (2000) – –
* Joanna Moon – Vagabunda – Vagabunda (2008) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.joanna-moon.com
* Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Kosminen – Uniko (2007) for accordion/voice, electronics, and string quartet: 1. Utu – Pohjonen/Kosminen: Uniko (2011) – Finland / USA – http://kronosquartet.org/ http://www.kimmopohjonen.com/
* The Unsettlers – Jonny Boy – Blood (2010) – Montreal, QC, Canada – http://www.theunsettlers.ca/
* Bruce Triggs’ Phone – Squeezebox Circle Amelie 10/10/07 21:12 – Voice Memos (0) – Vancouver, BC, Canada –
* Those Darn Accordions – Hippie With A Banjo – Clownhead (0) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com/index.htm
* Jason Webley – Coda – Only Just Beginning (2004) – Seattle, Washington, USA – http://www.jasonwebley.com/index.html
* Wendy McNeill – Carnation – The Wonder Show (2006) – Edmonton, Toronto, Canada/Sweden? – http://www.wendymcneill.com/
* Miss Murgatroid – Below The Bellows – Myoclyonic Melodies (1996) – Portland, Oregon, USA – http://www.missmurgatroid.com/And for the cover image? Two squirrels for our double episode, from a Valentine’s Day card from Juliette Daum: http://www.juliettedaum.com/
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Woman with an Accordion, daguerreotype 1840s: Is this the first picture of an accordion?
We know without a doubt that the first movie of an accordion was made in 1888, because it was about the sixth second of film that Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince shot.
But when was the first still-photo of a squeezebox taken? Good Question. The above photo makes its home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was put forth as an option for “oldest 🪗 pic” on #AccordionTwitter the other day by David Nessle in Sweden:
Looking closely, the photo raises additional questions. Specifically, it’s a really weird accordion. John Spiers and others noted the unusual arrangement of pallets and rods, and what may be a strap across the middle. I don’t recognize that design at all. Is that an early German type? It doesn’t look like a more common French “flutina” often seen in 1840s daguerreotypes.
Topics to consider to help date this photo:
- Did they stop making daguerreotypes at some point — so the pic would be older than that?
- The photo looks hand tinted. Does that help date it?
- What the heck kind of squeezebox is that?
- Any idea where or when that kind of instrument was made?
- Where might the picture have been taken?
- Any idea who the person holding the instrument might be? They look pretty cool. 😎
- Also, that’s a nice outfit, when was that style trending?
- And, what other images might be contenders for “oldest photo of an accordion”?
Historical Hints:
The earliest instrument called an “accordion” was patented in 1829. They spread widely, first as higher-class bourgeois parlor instruments, then, after about 1860, becoming more affordable to all classes, and traveling rapidly around the world. By 1939 early high-class accordions would have been available across Europe, and filtering out to the rest of the world.
Photography developed 🙄 in stages with various processes. The daguerreotype was invented around 1839. They were expensive to start with, so that fits early accordions’s class status, and they seem to have been fairly popular in old portraits. Accordions were a step ahead of photography wherever it spread, so there’s no telling where the two would have first met.
Obligatory plug for my Accordion Revolution book, which covers the early spread of the instrument with many stories about its arrival in North America. James Bazin was making his (weird) accordions in New England by 1835, only six years after the original patent in Vienna. The first known professional in N. America was Moody Stanwood, who took it up in 1839 and played in the early minstrel group the Boston (later “Ethiopian”) Serenaders. Stanwood also published one of the first American primers The New and Complete Preceptor for the French Accordion in 1840. Meanwhile, we know accordions had arrived in Canada by 1843 because the nuns at the Ursulain convent in Quebec kept the receipts.
So, this picture could have been taken almost anywhere in the world. Whenever photography finally met up with the accordion. But when was their first date?
Leave comments below, along with suggestions of alternative contenders for Premier 🪗 Pix!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-04-07: Kaddish for Bernie Madoff with Alicia J Rose and Alicia Jo Rabins
This week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio sees host Bruce reunited with one of the guiding lights of his alt-accordion obsession, Alicia J. “Miss Murgatroid” Rose, who has pivoted over the course of our beat toward a greater orientation toward film and photography. She has a very interesting work out (in conjunction with Alicia Jo Rabins from klezmer punk band Golem which, well, I can tell you how far we go back by asserting that they were our very first MySpace friend!) and, well, they tell you all about it. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen to this episode as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2021-04-07, Kaddish for Bernie Madoff with Alicia Jo Rabins and Alicia J. Rose
- Alicia Jo Rabins – “Jar Song” (Opening Theme) – Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (soundtrack clip, Alicia J. Rose, dir. 2020) – Portland, Oregon, USA – https://aliciajo.com/film/ http://www.aliciajrose.com http://www.AKaddishForBernieMadoff.com
- Socalled – PPP – Kadish #3 – Pickles – Kaddish Song (2007) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.socalledmusic.com
- Alicia Jo Rabins – “Due Diligence (Evelyn)” / “Apology Song” – Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (soundtrack clip, Alicia J. Rose, dir. 2020) – http://www.AKaddishForBernieMadoff.com
- Miss Murgatroid – No Noise – Through Alien Empires (1997, recorded 1995) – Portland, Oregon, USA – http://www.missmurgatroid.com
- Golem – Grine Kuzine – Homesick Songs (2004) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://www.golemrocks.com Annette Ezekiel Kogen, acc.
- Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden – Chill in the Air – Bella Neurox (1999) – Portland, Oregon / Los Angeles, California, USA – http://www.missmurgatroid.com www.petrahaden.com
- Alicia Jo Rabins – “No Such Thing as a Straight Line (Quant)” – Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (soundtrack clip, Alicia J. Rose, dir. 2020) – http://www.AKaddishForBernieMadoff.com
- Alicia Jo Rabins – “Confronting Bernie was confronting myself” – Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (soundtrack clip, Alicia J. Rose, dir. 2020) – http://www.AKaddishForBernieMadoff.com
- Alicia Jo Rabins – Madoff Medley (excerpt from the closing credits) – Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (soundtrack clip, Alicia J. Rose, dir. 2020) – http://www.AKaddishForBernieMadoff.com
- Geoff Berner – Why Don’t We Just Take The Billionaire’s Money Away – Grand Hotel Cosmopolis (2019) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/
- Bill Davis Trio – “Bring the Money In” (1954) – Co-op Radio Member Drive Announcement – http://www.globaldogproductions.info/o/okeh-45s.html
Kaddish for Bernie Madoff Links:
http://www.AKaddishForBernieMadoff.com
Ashland Independent Film Festival
Showing April 24-25, 2021
AshlandFilm.org
Stream on demand from anywhere in the US, $10
https://watch.eventive.org/aiff2021festival/play/60443380ee9d8e0663f08c46?fbclid=IwAR11NthgJ6ENwyDETIGuLFoD3TD76KqUQ1ujdXKsBd9Cqa5inlIJYhMbePk
Writer, musician, poet Alicia Joe Rabins 🎻
https://aliciajo.com/film/
Director, Accordionist Alicia J. Rose 🪗
https://www.aliciajrose.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Murgatroid
A Kaddish For Bernie Madoff Feature Film
Official Trailer 2021
Great reviews of the film:
In ‘A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff,’ a Surprisingly Relevant — and Very Jewish — Story Unfolds
By Chloe Sarbib March 5, 2021
https://www.heyalma.com/in-a-kaddish-for-bernie-madoff-a-surprisingly-relevant-and-very-jewish-story-unfolds/
What A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff Taught Me About Mourning
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner March 18, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/03/what-kaddish-bernie-madoff-teaches-about-mourning/618315/
Press kit for Kaddish for Bernie Madoff:
https://www.positivejampr.com/clients/kaddishforberniemadoff
Socials:
http://www.twitter.com/kaddish4madoff
http://instagram.com/akaddishforberniemadoff
http://facebook.com/kaddishformadoff
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From ten years ago, here’s episode 224 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir radio broadcast, anticipating the goofy occasion of April Fool’s Day taking place the following day. At its original online home, it was tracked as having achieved some 5937 listens, but you can continue enjoying it today as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-03-30, Accordion Fools Day
* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* The Bordens – Theme From Star Wars – Good Times (1980) – Dryden, Ontario, Canada – blog.wfmu.org father George Borden (accordion), mom Jeanette (Electrovox organ), sons Roger (saxophone and guitar) and Gary (drums), and nephew Bill Dombradi (guitar)
* Amy Cervini – Lovefool – Lovefool (2009) – Canada, New York – http://www.AmyCervini.com
* Those Darn Accordions – Glass of Beer Polka – Squeeze Machine (2007) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com/index.htm
* Lawrence Welk Show – “Hippie Welk” – 15th Season Opener (1969) – Squaresville, California, USA – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmSv2WFDrs&feature=player_embedded
* Los Fabulocos Feat. Kid Ramos – Educated Fool – Los Fabulocos (2008) – Whittier, California, USA – http://www.myspace.com/losfabulocos
* The Roughriders – Ukrainian Music and Comedy Songs featuring the Roughriders – Ukrainian Music and Comedy Songs – Vegreville, Alberta, Canada
* Stevens & Grdnic – Token Jazz Hour – Somewhere Over the Radio (1979)
* Motion Trio – Game Over – Play-Station (2005) – Poland – http://www.motion-trio.art.pl/a2Home.html
* My Unborn Children – This Fool – Foolish (2007) – Athens, Georgia, USA – http://www.flockofgoose.com/music.html
* Grupo Dominicano – Buen Humor – Global Accordion – Early Recordings (1929) – Republica Dominicana
* Rhoda Kakee ( Kah-key) – Jambalaya – Pangnirtung Music Festival 1999 disk 1 (1999) – Nunavut, Canada – From David Idoris Boileau (who made the recordings). Rhoda Kakee, a local elderly lady, well known for her “funny renditions of white mans songs” 8-)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangnirtung,_Nunavut
* Stevens & Grdnic – Today’s Weather – Somewhere Over the Radio (1979)
* Dan Propp – Give Me Garage Sales – Comedy, etc. Accordion to Dan (20) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.danpropp.com/
* Flogging Molly – You Won’t Make A Fool Out Of Me – Float (2007) – LA California, USA – http://www.floggingmolly.com/
* The Magnetic Fields – Old Fools – Distortion (2008) – Boston, Massachusetts, USA – http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/
* The Klaxons – Funny Bird – The Best Of The Klaxons (2008) – Belgium (not the UK rock band) – http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Blanca
* Brave Combo – Bumble Bee polka – Let’s Kiss (2004) – Denton, Texas, USA – http://www.brave.com/bo/
* Arthur Osmond – I played my concertina – Edison Standard Record: 10209 (formerly “Gold Moulded Records”) (1909) – Part of the UCSB Cylinder Digitization Project: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/.
* Lonzo & Oscar – I’m My Own Grandpa (August 1947) – Flashbacks #2 -1914-1946 – Novelty Songs – Crazy & Obscure (1947) – http://www.trikont.com/
* Stevens & Grdnic – Rock & Roll Toy (bumper sticker station id) – Somewhere Over the Radio (1979)
* Myron Floren – Laughing Polka – Legends of the Accordion
* The Burning Hell – Last Will and Testament – Tick Tock (2006) – Peterborough, Ontario, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/mathiaskomAnd for the cover image? Those good-time Bordens! Happy April Fools!
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-03-31: Bandcamp Lady Day
This week sees the first Friday of a new month — making April 2nd the next #BandcampFriday — meaning that you once again have the opportunity to support gig-starved #AccordionBandcamp musicians directly with your entertainment dollars! That is half the theme of this week’s episode, the other half being that wrapping up March as we are, the month of International Women’s Day (and today’s Trans Visibility Day 🏳️⚧️), the playlist reflects mostly women accordion players all selling music on Bandcamp. If you enjoy the appetizer you hear on our program, do please go out and buy the full main course! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2021-03-31, Bandcamp Lady Day
- Gali Galó – ‟Fluxo (Mulher do Futuro)” – single (2021) – Sao Paulo, Brazil – https://galigalo.bandcamp.com 🏳️⚧️ Country Queer story: https://countryqueer.com/stories/feature/insert-headline-here/
- Ratas En Zelo – ‟Mi país es mi planeta” – Despertar (2018) – New York City, NY, USA – http://ratasenzelo.bandcamp.com
- Miss Natasha Enquist – ‟Just Started” – MNE (2015) – Victoria, BC, Canada (and now Berlin, Germany) – http://www.natashaenquist.com https://missnatashaenquist.bandcamp.com
- Yiddish Glory – ‟Chuvasher Tekhter (Daughters of Chuvashia)” – The Lost Songs Of World War II (2018) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://yiddishglory.bandcamp.com http://www.yiddishglory.com Alexander Sevastian, acc 😢 “women served in the Red Army in medical units, as spies, pilots & infantry members to fight against the Nazis”
- Elfen – ‟Bwlch Llanberis” – March Glas (2016) – Cardiff, Wales – http://elfen.bandcamp.com Stacey Blythe, acc.
- Youssra El Hawary – ‟La Tesmaa’ Kalami” – No’oum Nasyeen (2017) – Cairo, Egypt, North Africa – http://youssraelhawary.bandcamp.com
- Anna Atkinson – ‟Intermission” – Mooniture (2011) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://annaatkinson.bandcamp.com http://www.AnnaAtkinson.com
- Amy Thatcher – ‟The Laburnum Tree” – Solo (2019) – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – https://amythatcheraccordion.bandcamp.com
- Ključo Tadić Aritmia – ‟Kraj Potoka Bistre Vode” – ARITMIA (2016) – Bosnia / Netherlands / Los Angeles, California, USA – Merima Ključo, acc; Miroslav Tadić, gtr https://kljucotadicaritmia.bandcamp.com https://merimakljuco.com
- Inge Thomson – ‟Marie Celeste” – Shipwrecks & Static (2010) – Scotland – https://ingethomson1.bandcamp.com http://www.ingethomson.com
- Jackie Oates and John Spiers – ‟Traveller’s Joy” – Needle Pin, Needle Pin (2020) – Uk – http://www.johnspiers.co.uk/ http://jackieoatesandjohnspiers.bandcamp.com
- Mairearad Green – ‟Passing Places” – Passing Places (2013) – Ullapool, Scotland – http://mairearadgreen.bandcamp.com
- Balún – ‟La Luna” – La Luna (2012) – Brooklyn, New York / Puerto Rico – http://balun.bandcamp.com
- angel corpus christi – ‟Dream Baby Dream” – I Love New York (1985) – New York / California – http://www.angelcorpuschristi.com http://angelcorpuschristi.bandcamp.com
- N0rth – ‟Humanity” – The Rusty Queendom (2018) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – https://n0rth.bandcamp.com
Gali Galó feat. Aíla – FLUXO 🏳️⚧️
https://youtu.be/rtdSSmDC2ls
https://galigalo.bandcamp.com
Country Queer story: https://countryqueer.com/stories/feature/insert-headline-here/
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 (our next Zoom session coming up 7 pm PST April 1st, no foolin’!) Cheers & squeeze on!
From ten years ago, here’s episode 223 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program. The episodes leading up to this one had all been saddled with various seasonal themes, so a cursory glance at the playlist suggests that Bruce was taking a break from being topical to just enjoy sharing some music he had enjoyed and flagged in his “play on next available episode” file. At its original online home it logged some 5621 listens, but you can continue enjoying it today as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-03-23, One Week’s Accordion
* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Phyllis Sinclair – Morning Laughter – Dreams of the Washerwomen (2011) – –
* 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
* Corpus Callosum – The Ogre And The Elephant – Corpus Callosum (2010) – Daly City, California, USA – http://www.norestforthewicked.biz/ http://www.corpus.cc/
* Kal Cahoone – It Takes a Carpenter – Saints and Stars (2011) – Denver, Colorado, USA – http://www.myspace.com/kalcahoone
* DeVotchKa – Contrabanda – 100 Lovers (2011) – Maybe “Earth,” maybe “Denver, Colorado, USA” – http://www.devotchka.net/
* Peter Katz And The Curious – Acadian Driftwood – Garth Hudson Presents A Canadian Celebration Of The Band (2010) – Canada and stuff – http://www.garthhudson.com/
* Basia Bulat – Gold Rush – Heart Of My Own (2010) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.basiabulat.com/
* The Acorn – Kindling To Cremation – No Ghost (2010) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.theacorn.ca/
* Panic! At The Disco – Sarah Smiles – Vices & Virtues (2011) – Las Vegas, Nevada, USA – http://www.panicatthedisco.com
* Servais Haanen – Benoit – Cataract (2007) – Germany – http://www.klangwelten.com
* Turlu Tursu – Nanigo Girls – The All Weathers Country (2010) – Belgium – http://www.homerecords.be
* R.E.M. – Oh My Heart – Collapse Into Now (2011) – ‘merica – (Never heard of them.)
* The Burnettes – Wasted – A Boy And A Girl (2011) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.theburnettes.ca (Geoff Berner, acc.)
* Abigail Lapell – Yellow Rose – Great Survivor (2011) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.abigaillapell.com
* Misty River – Gan Lan Shu (The Olive Tree) – Stories (2007) – Eugene, Oregon, USA – http://www.mistyriverband.comAnd for the cover image? The lovely Corpus Callosum record sleeve, which is lovely.
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As if to add insult to injury, after the horrific events of last week, shortly before airtime Bruce learned that Oakland’s Mills College, home to the Center for Contemporary Music, had announced its sunsetting. Deep Listening innovator Pauline Oliveros launched the Centre and ran it during its first year, and returned to the facility to conduct her work during the last two decades of her life. Pulling the plug on it seemed like a cruel blow against women in music in a week that had already seen too much cruelty against women, and he desperately strove (unsuccessfully) to shoehorn an acknowledgement of it into his pre-recorded episode at the last minute, resulting in his missing his scheduled radio broadcast start time for the first time in fifteen years! No matter: he has devoted this entire episode to this pressing business. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its (uncharacteristically brief — Pauline tracks skew on the long side) playlist:
AccNoir-2021-03-24, Pauline Oliveros, Wake the Butterfly
- Deep Listening Band & the Long String Instrument – ‟TexasTravelTexture” – Suspended Music (1997) – Born and raised in Houston, Texas, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros http://www.deeplistening.org http://paulineoliveros.us
- LaSaM – Tina Pearson – ‟Tectonach” – Sonic Whisper concert – Victoria, BC, Canada – Chris Reiche (Yamaha DX7), Kristy Farkas (grand piano) and Tina Pearson (accordion, voice) in concert November, 2008 in Victoria, BC. Recorded by Mario Milat. https://tina-pearson.com/
- Pauline Oliveros – ‟Lear On the Road” – Crone Music (1990)
- Pauline Oliveros – ‟Primordial” – Primordial Lift (1999)
- Guy Klucevsek – ‟Pauline, Pauline (for Pauline Oliveros): 2. Quietly, So As Not to Wake the Butterfly (after Haruki Murakami)” – Carousel of Dreams (2018) – Staton Island, NY, USA – http://www.guyklucevsek.com
“I lied about the last tune,” concedes Bruce. “The Oliveros / Klucevsek record that is available on #AccordionBandcamp is Sounding / Way by Pauline Oliveros & Guy Klucevsek, originally released on cassette in 1986. Go buy it on Bandcamp Friday next week”: https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/sounding-way
More on:
Pauline Oliveros
May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016
http://www.deeplistening.org http://paulineoliveros.us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros
Mills College, Hub for Electronic and Experimental Music Study, Is Closing
Its Center for Contemporary Music was a professional and creative home to Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, Holly Herndon, and more
By Allison Hussey
https://pitchfork.com/news/mills-college-hub-for-electronic-and-experimental-music-study-is-closing/
Mills College Mourns the Loss of Composer Pauline Oliveros
Oakland, CA—November 28, 2016
https://www.mills.edu/news/news-stories/mills-mourns-pauline-oliveros.php
“Thirty Years of Non-Stop Flight: A Brief History of the Center for Contemporary Music”
—David W. Bernstein
https://www.mills.edu/academics/graduate-programs/music/center-contemporary-music/archives.php
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From ten years ago (give or take a few weeks, we switched it around to make 2011’s IWD archival selection match up with IWD 2021), here’s episode 220 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir radio program, with a then-timely Mardi Gras special featuring a live visit by the band Mojo Zydeco (whose torch is now carried by Nuvo Zydeco). At its original online home, it logged some 6172 listens, but thanks to the Internet Archive you can continue enjoying this broadcast today and on into the future! Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2011-03-02, Mojo Zydeco in the Studio!
* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Interview with Mary Beth Carty of Bette & Wallet, appearing at the Festival du Bois this weekend. Thanks Mary Beth!
[That interview included snippets from]:
* Bette Et Wallet – Minister’s Daughter – Voici… Bette & Wallet (2008) – Quebec / Nova Scotia Canada – http://www.bette-wallet.com
* La Bottine Souriante – Arin Quebec (Arin Quebec) – Rock & Reel (1998) – Montreal, Québec, Canada – Denis Fréchette, accordeon piano, Yves Lambert, accordeon 3 rangees http://bottinesouriante.com/
* Bette Et Wallet – Squeegees – Voici… Bette & Wallet (2008) – Quebec / Nova Scotia Canada – http://www.bette-wallet.com
[Then we had Mojo Zydeco with us live! And they played some from their new album too.]
* Mojo Zydeco – Accordion Noir Theme (by Andy Fielding) – live tonight!
* Mojo Zydeco – Do You Zydeco? – Doin’ It (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.mojozydeco.com/
* Mojo Zydeco – Iko Iko – in the Mardi Gras spirit!
* Mojo Zydeco – A Brighter Day – Doin’ It (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.mojozydeco.com/
* Mojo Zydeco – Louisian’ – live in the studio
* Mojo Zydeco – “Put Your Mardi Gras Beads On.” – Live improv Mojo.
* Mojo Zydeco – Waterline – Doin’ It (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.mojozydeco.com/And for the cover image? Mojo Zydeco! (The trio version. Thank you so much for joining us!)
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-03-17: ♀ 🪗
Here is this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast. In keeping with world events today, barring a closing concession to St. Patrick’s, it’s International Women’s Day part 2. No further commentary needed, let’s stay in the backseat and allow them to speak for themselves, with their music. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2021-03-17, ♀ 🪗
- Maria Kalaniemi & Sven Ahlbäck – ‟Miete (Thought)” – Airbow = Luftstråk = Ilmajousi (2000) – Finland, Sweden – http://www.mariakalaniemi.com/
- Wendy McNeill – ‟Lutetia” – A Dreamer’s Guide to Hardcore Loving (2008) – Sweden, Canada – http://www.wendymcneill.com/
- Talisk – ‟Beyond” – Beyond (2018) – Scotland – http://www.talisk.co.uk Hayley Keenan, fiddle, Graeme Armstrong, gtr; Mohsen Amini, Anglo-German concertina
- Tannis Slimmon – ‟These Wheels” – Truck Songs: Volume 1 (1996) – Canada – https://tannis.ca (With Lewis Melville playing, “other stuff” which I think was the accordion part.)
- Inge Thomson – ‟Here We’ve Landed” – Da Fishing Hands (2014) – Scotland – https://ingethomson1.bandcamp.com http://www.ingethomson.com
- Anna Atkinson with David Occhipinti – ‟Silver” – Sky Stacked Full (2016) – Toronto – Halifax, Ontario, Canada – http://www.AnnaAtkinson.com https://annaatkinson.bandcamp.com
- Yiddish Glory – ‟Chuvasher Tekhter (Daughters of Chuvashia)” – The Lost Songs Of World War II (2018) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://yiddishglory.bandcamp.com http://www.yiddishglory.com Alexander Sevastian, acc 😢 “women served in the Red Army in medical units, as spies, pilots & infantry members to fight against the Nazis”
- Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins & Jim Black – ‟Prelude II” – Five Other Pieces (+2) (1998) – USA – http://www.elleryeskelin.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Parkins
- Teija Niku – ‟Hetki” – Hetkessä (2019) – Finland – http://www.teijaniku.com
- Sophe Lux – ‟God Doesn’t Take American Express” – Waking the Mystics (2007) – Portland, Oregon, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophe_Lux Kelly Goodwin, acc.
- Ključo Tadić Aritmia – ‟Nana” – ARITMIA (2016) – Bosnia / Netherlands / Los Angeles, California, USA – Merima Ključo, acc; Miroslav Tadić, gtr https://kljucotadicaritmia.bandcamp.com https://merimakljuco.com
- Lankum – ‟The Old Man From Over The Sea” – Cold Old Fire (2013) – Dublin, Ireland – http://lankumdublin.com/
- Black Prairie – ‟Rabbit Slaughter” – The Storm In The Barn (2012) – Portland, Oregon – http://www.blackprairie.com
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