Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-01-20: Shanties a’Trending?

AccNoir 2021-01-20

“Home Sweet Home“, Norman Rockwell, 1923.

No one had “sea shanty revival” on their 2020 bingo card. But because the ducks and swerves of popular culture stubbornly can’t be predicted or dictated, that improbable eventuality came to pass, with “the Wellerman” taking youth video service TikTok by storm and introducing an entire generation to a musical tradition they had likely never imagined, let alone encountered, before. Meanwhile, here we are on the sidelines, observing how if the least hip thing (I can make that claim, for over a decade I fronted a band called The Creaking Planks) sits on the shelf long enough, sometimes the odometer eventually ticks over and it suddenly becomes the most hip thing. (Maybe in 2021 it’ll be the Morrismen’s turn.) “Hey Bruce,” I says, “looks like Hell has frozen over and sea shanties are trending this week. You must have a couple dozen hours of them in your audio collection, if we jump on it we just might be accidentally relevant before the bubble pops!” Which brings us to the present — always striving for relevance, but only rarely actually having the extraordinary conditions in place to make actually achieving it remotely possible. In any case, our Nautical By Nature sea shanty episode went out over the airwaves this week — 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-2021-01-20, Shanties a’Trending?

• Leveret – A Hornpipe – The Sailor’s Delight – Diversions (2019) – Stroud, UK – http://www.leveretband.com https://leveretband.bandcamp.com Andy Cutting (melodeon), Sam Sweeney (fiddle) and Rob Harbron (concertina)
• The Gertrudes – Sailor – Dawn Time Riot (2010) – Kingston, Ontario, Canada – http://thegertrudes.com/
• Wellington Sea Shanty Society + Croche Dedans – The Wellerman – AHOY! (2018) – France / New Zealand – http://wssscrochededans.bandcamp.com
• The McNulty Family – I Sailed Away From Dublin Bay – Unknown Album (19/01/2010 12:12:37 AM) (1939) – USA / Ireland – Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/McnultyFamily_344 Discography: http://www.honkingduck.com/discography/artist/mcnulty_family
• Great Big Sea – Josephine The Baker – Great Big Sea XX – The Folk Songs (2012) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.greatbigsea.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_(Great_Big_Sea_album) The tune at the end may be “Old Man and the Old Woman” reel. https://thesession.org/tunes/4382
• Eliza Carthy – Rolling Sea – Rogue’s Gallery, Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (disk 1) (2006) – Yorkshire, England, UK – http://www.eliza-carthy.com
• Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – Rats – Partisans & Parasites (2009) – Detroit, Michigan, USA / Berlin, Germany – http://www.paintedbird.net/
• Peter Knight’s Gigspanner Big Band – Haul on the Bowline – Natural Invention (2020) – Uk – http://www.johnspiers.co.uk http://www.gigspanner.com John Spiers (Bellowhead), melodeon acc.
• The Tiger Lillies – Sleep With The Fishes – Circus Songs (2000) – United Kingdom – http://www.tigerlillies.com/
• The Bad Things – Death of the Inferno – After The Inferno (2014) – Seattle, Washington, USA – http://www.thebadthings.com/
• Salty Dick (Richard Docker, PhD) – The Fireship – Salty Dick’s Uncensored Sailor Songs (2004) – Rhode Island, USA – http://www.saltydick.com/contents.htm http://www.horntip.com/mp3/2000s/2004_salty_dicks_uncensored_sailor_songs_(CD)/
• The Once – Three Fishers – The Once (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://theonce.ca

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 (Zoom song circles the first Friday of every month, next up Feb 5, 7-9 pm PST!) Cheers & squeeze on!

Bonus: co-host Rowan was jumping on the shanty bandwagon (er, dinghy?) this week with his Stupid Accordion Tricks video series, foisting nautical tunes at TikTok as part of his midlife crisis. Enjoy his take on Ewan MacColl’s “The Shoals of Herring”:

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2011-01-05: New Year’s Squeeze

We’re at the point in our back archives where we’ve finally gotten past New Year (thanks a lot, bonus December programming!), so here in our ongoing series of ten-years-back looks is Accordion Noir episode #212, our first January broadcast from the halcyon year of 2011.  (It’s totally tragical, they’ve only got 9 years ahead of them to 2020 and the poor saps haven’t got a clue!)  It’s our house mix of excellent squeezebox musics in various styles and from different cultures around the planet, just the way you like it!  At its original online home it tallied some 6827 listens, but you can enjoy listening to it today, tomorrow and onwards as digital audio at its new forever home courtesy of the Internet Archive.  Here’s its playlist:

2011-01-05, New Year Squeeze (it’s 2011, isn’t it?)

* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* The Hold Steady – Modesto Is Not That Sweet – Misc. – New York City, New York State, USA – Stuff Franz Nicolay played accordion!
* 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
* Richard Buckner – Six Years – Bloomed (1995) – California / New York, USA – http://www.richardbuckner.com/
* Cat Jahnke – Five Straight Days – The Stories Are Taking Their Toll (2010) – Winnipeg, Canada – http://www.catjahnke.com/
* Magnificent Seven – The Killer – The Broken Hearted Show (2010) – Sweden –
* Alex Meixner – Livin’ Groove – Stay All Night – Denton, Texas, USA – http://alexmeixner.com/Welcome.html http://www.polkafreakout.com
* Ultramarine – Softspot – Folk (1989) – http://www.ultramarine.uk.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine_(band)
* The Groanbox Boys – Hobo Heaven – Smokestack Trilogy (2006) – London, England – http://www.groanboxboys.com/
* Terhi Puronaho & Timo Alakotila – Kardiitti – Aatos (2008) – Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland – http://www.myspace.com/terhipuronaho
* Yesterdays Ring – Quebec City Blues – Diamonds In The Ditch (2009) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
* Tony De La Rosa – El Chalaquite – ¡Conjunto! Tex-Mex Border Music, Vol. 3
* Les Cowboys Fringants – Plus Rien – La Grand-Messe (2004) – Montreal, Canada – http://www.cowboysfringants.com/
* Eyerish Heather Collins – The Prettiest Wings [Feat. Molly Petite] – Accordion Babes 2011 (2010) – http://accordionpinupcalendar.com/
* Three Mile Stone – I’ll Mend Your Pots And Kettles • Martin Mulvihill’s Jig [Feat. Marla Fibish] – Accordion Babes 2011 (2010) – http://accordionpinupcalendar.com/
* Meg Hutchinson – At First It Was Fun – The Living Side (2010) – Massachusetts, USA – Steve Sadler, acc. http://www.meghutchinson.com
* Bette Et Wallet – Jeanette – Voici… Bette & Wallet (2008) – Quebec / Nova Scotia Canada – http://www.bette-wallet.com
* Hand – The Getaway [Feat. Luz Gaxiola] – Accordion Babes 2011 (2010) – http://accordionpinupcalendar.com/
* Rebecca Qumarluk – Taanisirutialuk – Nunavik Concert (1993) – Inukjuak, Nunavik, QC, Canada – Inukjuak Artist Association Inc. PO Box 180 Inukjuak, Nunivik, QC, J0M 1M0 Canada. Fax: (819) 254-8113

And for the cover image? A new year’s accordion memory book!
from: http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/kidscraftsactivitiesblog/2010/12/making-a-new-years-memory-accordion-pocket-book-to-hold-precious-memories/

——-

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 2021-01-13: So Canadian (Exceptionalism is a Problem)

AccNoir 2021-01-13

Here it is, just into a new year, and already we’re sequence-breaking and skipping directly to a homegrown celebration of all squeezy things Canadian as if it was July 1st! There are reasons we tend to visit this territory at this time of year, and I promise you: they are boring ones not worth discussing at great length. But it makes for a good show, so if your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen to this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2021-01-13, So Canadian (Exceptionalism is a Problem)

• Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – recorded special just for our show! – Sheet-music to learn it yourself: http://www.zisman.ca/squeezebox/Music/Accordion%20Noir%20%28leadsheet,%2004feb10%29.pdf
• Geoff Berner – Pay People Money to Stay at Home – (2021) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com https://youtu.be/kDXbFeUfCbc
• Maria Dunn – Joyful Banner Blazing – Joyful Banner Blazing (2020) – Edmonton, Alberta Canada – http://www.mariadunn.com
• The Jerry Cans – Iqqaumattiaqtugut – Aakuluk (2014) – Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada – http://thejerrycans.com/
• Boogát – Au revoir México – San Cristóbal Baile Inn (2017) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.BonsoundPromo.com Octavio Macchetto, acc.
• The Dardanelles – Free Payne’s Too/Prosper’s Jig/Free Payne’s – In The Spring, That’s The Time (2020) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ https://thedards.bandcamp.com Aaron Collis, acc.
• Canailles – Breakers – Ronds-Points (2014) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://canailles.bandcamp.com
• Claude Hurtubise – Pour Oublier – Accordion Babes 2021 Pin-up Calendar CD (2021) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – https://accordionpinupcalendar.com/ http://www.claudehurtubise.com
• Abraham Inc – Doina – Together We Stand! – New York, NY, USA / Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.socalledmusic.com https://www.abrahamincmusic.com/media https://abrahaminc.bandcamp.com/album/together-we-stand
• Abraham Inc – Strannik – Together We Stand! – New York, NY, USA / Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.socalledmusic.com https://www.abrahamincmusic.com/media https://abrahaminc.bandcamp.com/album/together-we-stand
• Riit – Uqausissaka – Ataataga (2019) – Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada – http://www.riitmusic.com http://www.aakulukmusic.com
• Mary Beth Carty – Thomas – Les biens-nommés (2017) – Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada – marybethcarty.com
• Alexander Sevastian – A. Repnikov. Capriccio – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005) – Thornhill, Ontario, Canada – http://www.accordions.com/sevastian/
• Amelia Curran – Mad World, Outlive Me – Hunter, Hunter (2009) – St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.ameliacurran.com/
• Wendy McNeill – Flight – A Dreamer’s Guide to Hardcore Loving (2008) – Sweden, Canada – http://www.wendymcneill.com/
• Sapo – Levo Lejos – Accordion Babes 2021 Pin-up Calendar CD (2021) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – https://accordionpinupcalendar.com/ http://www.sapoooo.bandcamp.com Melodona Accordion Repair (Montreal)

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 (we’re going to try another Zoom song circle the first Friday of the month!) Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-12-29: Kate McGarrigle Memorial

This post marks our churning back up to the surface the ten-year-old episode #211 of our weekly Accordion Noir radio program, broadcasting from Vancouver’s CFRO Co-Op Community Radio.  This one acted as a more complete memorial to the late, great Kate McGarrigle, who passed on at the beginning of 2010 (and… it still feels impossible that she’s been gone for ten years now!)  At its original online home, it was enjoyed some 7904 times, and you can revisit her rich musical vein along with us courtesy of the Internet Archive.  As for everything else… I said it pretty well in the below blurb back when we first aired this recording!  Here’s the playlist and everything else.

Greetings from co-host Rowan.  As our last show of the year, I wanted to do a tribute episode to accordion players who left us in 2010, and truly there were titans: Art van Damme, Esteban Jordan, Shirley Evans, and earliest of all, Kate McGarrigle. But as Bruce noted, Art and Esteban already got entire episodes dedicated to them, while we didn’t have enough of Shirley’s work on file to do her justice. Kate McGarrigle however got a bit shortchanged in our initial response to her passing, and so she became the primary subject of our entire tribute episode.  Hats off to all of them, however, along with other renowned accordionists who may have passed on without the news of their passing reaching our ears.

* Kate & Anna McGarrigle w/ Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson, Rod Paterson – The Trans-Atlantic Sessions – Hard Times Come Again No More (from a YouTube clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YrfLnlrquo ) (1996?) … I made this the first track of the first show after she died, but couldn’t resist using it again: a fundamentally perfect arrangement of the Stephen Foster anthem.
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Songs of the Civil War – Better Times Are Coming (1991) … a natural complement.
* Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (2010)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – self-titled album – (Talk to me of) Mendocino (1975)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse (French Record) – En Filant Ma Quenouille (1981) … also the album whose cover art produced the icon gracing this podcast’s artwork.
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Dancer With Bruised Knees – Perrine Etait Servante (1977)
* Rufus Wainwright w/ Kate McGarrigle – Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys – Lowlands Away (2006) … I’m not sure how we avoided airing this mother/son duet until now, but it’s about time we shared it.
* Martha Wainwright – Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, Ã Paris – C’est A Hambourg (2009) … Three accordionists (including Garth Hudson!) are credited on this Piaf tribute album, but not assigned specific songs. I started with a YouTube video of Kate playing this one with her mother on the buttonbox and extrapolated that Kate may well have done similar duties on the recording. Please don’t disabuse me of this notion.
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – I Eat Dinner (from a YouTube live performance video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2x9uZVPek ) … this fundamentally perfect ode to life after love comes from the 1990 album Heartbeats Accelerating, but this live version has a bit more audible squeezebox.
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Heartbeats Accelerating – Heartbeats Accelerating (1990)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – ODDiTiES – Parlez-Nous A Boire (2010)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Walking Song – Dancer With Bruised Knees (1977)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – The McGarrigle Hour – Baltimore Fire (1998)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – ODDiTiES – the Log Driver’s Waltz (2010) … Not the version of the Wade Hemsworth classic many of us grew up with, but a new take on the eternal Canadian classic.
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Matapedia – Why Must We Die (1996)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – The McGarrigle Hour – Bon Voyage (1998)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – self-titled album – Complainte Pour Ste-Catherine (1976) … because as appropriate as I felt the dramatic arc of the previous couple of songs was, I wanted to end on a high note.

We host a monthly squeezebox circle … about which you can find further information at http://www.squeezeboxcircle.org

You can also reach us and find out more about our featured performers AND listeners by joining the Accordion Noir fans group on Facebook or visiting our profile on Myspace [Ed, 2020: OK, you can probably safely skip the MySpace visit.]

Thanks for supporting us and our parent radio station CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, 102.7 fm in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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 (well, you already heard about that one!), the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  (That’s right, ten years on we somehow budded off three more FB groups!  It’s out of control!)  Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-01-06: OK, 2020, Now What?

AccNoir 2021-01-06

“Hell To / Heavens To”, Miss Murgatroid, 1992.

Having been distracted for some reason, at 8 PM tonight Bruce thought it was Tuesday and hadn’t recorded tonight’s 10 PM episode. He was personally startled by the otherwise everyday Washington Post headline:

“President Trump incites his supporters at a rally Wednesday to march on the Capitol…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/06/domestic-terrorist/

That added a bit of 2020 to tonight’s thrown-together “looking back on 2020” episode. (This year started in 2016 and hasn’t ended yet.)

Despite everything else going on, I am given to understand that Bruce was able to leap into action at the last minute and make of last night’s CFRO Accordion Noir broadcast his favorites-released-in-2020 episode.  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-2021-01-06, OK, 2020, Now What?

https://dust-digital.com/blog/musica-del-coronavirus

• Ernie Felice Quartet – Georgia on My Mind (talkover) – Ernie Felice (3 CD Compilation) – California, USA – http://www.erniefelice.com
• Shipcats – Bierschnegel – Accordion Babes 2021 Pin-up Calendar CD (2021) – Hamburg, Germany – https://accordionpinupcalendar.com/ http://www.facebook.com/shipcats Renée de la Prade, acc
• Lucho Cobo y Julio “El Mono” Ordoñez – Coronavirus – Colombia – from Dan Margolies’s #MúsicaCoronavirus Playlist: https://twitter.com/hashtag/MúsicaCoronaVirus?src=hashtag_click&f=live MÚSICA DEL CORONAVIRUS (Dust to Digital article) https://dust-digital.com/blog/musica-del-coronavirus
• Geoff Berner – The Rich Will Move to the High Ground (Klezmer Dirge version) – Geoff Berner Live at Or Shalom, 2020-05-10 (2020) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://youtu.be/DFrQpcqPSJg http://www.geoffberner.com (First show in 3 months, July 10 in Chilliwack, BC)
• Emmanuel Trifilio and Christylez Bacon – Milonga de la Cuarentena (Beatbox Remix) – Beatbox Remix, Episode 19 (2020) – Argentina / USA – https:/patreon.com/beatboxremix
• Fish Harmonics – Don’t Be the Turkey – One – EP (2020) – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – https://robcurto.bandcamp.com/album/one http://www.robcurto.com
• The Dardanelles – Father’s Jig/Who Stole the Miner’s Hat/Banker Tune No. 2 – In The Spring, That’s The Time (2020) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ https://thedards.bandcamp.com Aaron Collis, acc.
• Maria Mazzotta – Nu me lassare – Amoreamaro (2020) – italy / Madagascar – http://www.zeronovenove.com Bruno Galeone, acc
• Sister Species – Cottonwood Trees – (Single) (2020) – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – http://www.sisterspecies.com http://sisterspecies.bandcamp.com
• Martin Green – The Herd – The Portal (Music from the Podcast) (2020) – Uk – http://www.martingreenmusic.co.uk
• The Tiger Lillies – Poor Man Killer – COVID-19 vol.II (2020) – London, England, UK – http://www.tigerlillies.com http://thetigerlillies.bandcamp.com
• Peter Knight’s Gigspanner Big Band – Betsy Bell and Mary Grey – Natural Invention (2020) – Uk – http://www.johnspiers.co.uk http://www.gigspanner.com John Spiers (Bellowhead), melodeon acc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessy_Bell_and_Mary_Gray
• The Jerry Cans – Havava – Echoes (2020) – Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada – http://thejerrycans.bandcamp.com http://thejerrycans.com/
• Frode Haltli – Arabesque no. 10 – Selected Solo Works, Vol. 2 (2020) – Oslo, Norway – http://frodehaltli.com https://haltli.bandcamp.com https://frodehaltli.bandcamp.com
• Ernie Felice Quartet – Georgia on My Mind – Ernie Felice (3 CD Compilation) – California, USA – http://www.erniefelice.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 (a Zoom song circle tomorrow night!) Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-12-15: Bruce’s best of 2010

We’re a little out of synch, because I think we had a few extra episodes in Dec 2010, but in the long run we will catch up and even out.  Here we go: all right, friends, you made it through Rowan’s favorite songs aired in 2010, and now it’s your turn to enjoy Bruce’s contrarian response: here in episode #209 of CFRO Co-op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program from ten years ago, your regular host Bruce Triggs gives a more focused year-in-review program, sharing with you his favorite accordion songs from albums released in that year.  At its original online home, it boasted a total of 4569 listens, and you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive.  Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2010-12-15, Bruce’s best of 2010

* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Accordion Noir Electronic/New Time PRA (2010)
* 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
* Mark Berube & the Patriotic Few – Tailored To Fit – Tailored To Fit [EP] (2010) – Vancouver / Toronto, Canada – http://www.markberube.com/
* Adham Shaikh – Carpet Breaker (Featuring Boris Sichon, Jaron Freeman-Fox) – Universal Frequencies (2010) – Nelson, British Columbia, Canada – http://www.sonicturtle.com
* Jelena Milojevic – Three Nocturnes: II Nocturne – The Art of Accordion (2010) – Victoria, BC, Canada – Former Yugoslavia – http://www.myspace.com/jelenamilojevic
* Klezmic Zirkus – Diabolo Mandarine – 13, Chemin Des Mandarines (2010) – Liège, Liège, Belgium – http://www.abysses-asbl.be/klezmic-zirkus/
* Eyerish Heather Collins – The Prettiest Wings [Feat. Molly Petite] – Accordion Babes 2011 (2010) – http://accordionpinupcalendar.com/
* Jenny Omnichord – All Our Little Bones – All Our Little Bones (2010) – Guelph, Ontario, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/jennyomnichord
* Brown Ale – The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff – Eponymous (2010) – Brampton, Ontario, Canada – http://www.brownalemusic.ca
* Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band – Kibosh On Your Scene – The Sepiachord Passport (2010) – Somerville, Massachusetts, USA – http://www.ensmb.com/index.html http://www.sepiachord.com/ (donate to support them!)
* Bruce Triggs – Harriet’s Accordion PRA (2010)
* Johanna Juhola – Tango 4 – Fantasiatango (2010) – Helsinki, Finland – http://www.johannajuhola.net/
* April Smith & The Great Picture Show – Colors – Songs For A Sinking Ship (2010) – New Jersey, USA – http://www.AprilSmithMusic.com
* La Strada – Shapes In The Sky – New Home (2010) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – http://www.myspace.com/lastradanyc
* Piñata Protest – Polka Time – Plethora (2010) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – http://www.myspace.com/pinataprotest
* Ingrid Gatin – The Sea and the Prairie (live with crowd noise) – Cafe Montmartre 10/05/14 set (2010) – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/ingridgatin
* Amira – Zošto Si Me Majko Rodila – Zumra (2010) – Bosnia – http://www.amira.com.ba/
* Regina Carter – N’Teri – Regina Carter – Reverse Thread (2010) – New York, New York, USA – http://www.reginacarter.com/

And for the cover image? Me doing laundry during a long-track in the show.

——-

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 (stay tuned, to manifest as a Zoom session this Friday if rumours are to be believed!) Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2020-12-30: Almost to Where?

AccNoir 2020-12-30

It’s the end of a heck of a year, so why not send it on its way in a blistering cavalcade of accordion music? That’s right, there is no convincing counter-argument. Fortunately, here we are to provide the soundtrack for your household’s changeover.  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 audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2020-12-30, Almost to Where?

• Sean Panting – Mummers, nice mummers, get lost – CBC Radio Newfoundland’s St. John’s Morning Show (2020) – Newfoundland, Canada – Video: https://youtu.be/hLBonlJj6qc About the song: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sean-panting-mummers-pandemic-song-1.5845038 “With apologies to Simani.”
• Vagabond Opera – New Years Eve in a Haunted House – The Zeitgeist Beckons (2009) – Portland, Oregon, USA – http://www.vagabondopera.com/
• Mr. Peters Boom & Chime – Gyal Go Home – Weh Mi Lova Deh (1997) – Belize –
• Aníbal Velásquez Y Su Conjunto – Que Paso – Mambo Loco – Barranquilla, Colombia – http://analogafrica.blogspot.com/2009/12/analog-africa-no7-anibal-velasquez-y-su.html
• Perttula – Talvenselkä / Height of Winter – Pajavasara (2020) – Finland – http://www.toniperttula.com http://www.bafesfactory.fi/perttula (Toni Perttula’s twin brother Sami is in Korpiklaani) Artistic producer on this track: Viivi Maria Saarenkylä (from Vildá)
• Zeek Manners and His Gang – Make With The Music – The Golden Age of Zeke Manners – Los Angeles, California, USA – http://www.dagmar-anita-binge.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeke_Manners
• D. Raylene Campbell – Idols of the Children + Accordion – Canada – http://www3.sympatico.ca/freereed/ray.htm
• The Lewinskies – Forever Now – Good for All (2016) – Nova Scotia, Canada – http://www.thelewinskies.com
• Mythos: Bjarke Mogensen, Rasmus Schjœrff Kjøller – Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity – Helios and The Planets 2020 (2020) – Bornholm, Denmark – http://www.bjarkemogensen.dk
• Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – good old bad old days – Good Old Bad Old Days Demo – Detroit, Michigan, USA / Berlin, Germany – http://www.paintedbird.net/
• Tom Waits – New Year’s Eve – Bad As Me (2011) – Hollywood, California, USA – http://www.tomwaits.com/ David Hidalgo, acc.
• Viola Turpeinen – New Years Hambo – Viola Turpeinen (The Finnish American Accordion Princess) – American Hanuriprinsessa Vol. 3 1947 -1949 – Champion, Michigan, USA / Finland

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 (current plans are for me to host it as a Zoom song circle Jan 8th, friends near and far are welcome!) Cheers & squeeze on!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2010-12-08: Best Live Acts on Accordion Noir 2010

Here it is, folks, from ten years ago… episode #208 of CFRO Co-op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program, playing only the nuttiest and most esoteric squeezebox music to ever adorn the airwaves!  A good demonstration of our December festivities in our early years — we would (in pre-Pandemic times, if you can believe such a thing) have guests perform live at the radio station from time to time, and at the end of the year cut their performances — which if not for our program would never even exist! — into a bootleg mix tape of sorts, splicing together a highlights reel of all the best of the live cuts we had hosted in that calendar year.  It’s a fun way of going about doing things, and I hope we can return to it when everything settles down.  Anyhow, at its original online home, it clocked some 6147 listens, and you can continue enjoying it as vintage digital audio into the indefinite future courtesy of the Internet Archive.  Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2010-12-08, Best Live Acts on Accordion Noir 2010

* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Rowan Lipkovits (really?) – Accordion Noir Theme
* Maria in the Shower – She Rises – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/194
* Earle Peach – The Digger’s Song – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/196
* Marie-Josée Houle – Three Red Beads – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/203
* Gerry O’Brien – Jig Set – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/205
* Tower of Dudes – Penguin – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/206
* Rowan Lipkovits – HK is still Busy
* Jeffrey Butzer – The Vanishing Act – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/218
* Salmon-Avalanche starring as Katheryn Petersen – Estato – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/226
* Komatich – Happy Feet – http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/node/229
* Alison Jenkins – The Canderu / Sept do Coma / You’re not my baby (I’m sure I spelled that last one wrong) – Live in the Accordion Noir studio! – http://redbootquartet.com/ (Among the groups Alison plays with.)

And for the cover image? What you get if you type in, “Accordion Live” and look for a picture. We should get some of those.

——-

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 2020-12-23: Squeezing from a Distance for Christmas

AccNoir 2020-12-23

Another year, another Christmas Eve Eve. This week Bruce aired another squeezy power hour of accordion music on seasonal themes, going out over the airwaves at 100.5 fm courtesy of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio. 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 audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

Long Tolcarne’s Standard Withiel lament, often associated with accordionist Benny Andersson – The Music of Cornish Hobos (1936)

AccNoir-2020-12-23, Squeezing from a Distance for Christmas

• Rum Ragged – Pop’s New Accordion – Rum Ragged at Christmas (2018) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.rumragged.com
• Christmas Jug Band – S.A.N.T.A (Gloria) – Tree-Side Hoot (1991) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – Paul from Those Darn Accordions offers these up: http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com
• Blake Miller & Amelia Biere – Tout moi je veux pour Chrismeusse, chère, c’est toi – Joyeux Noël, Bon Chrismeusse (2020) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – https://chasjustus.bandcamp.com
• Jill Sobule – Merry Christmas From the Family – You Sleigh Me! (1995) – USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Christmas_from_the_Family http://www.jillsobule.com Jerry Dale McFadden, acc.
• Rowan Lipkovits and Co. – I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas – Stupid Accordion Tricks (2020) – Vancouver, BC, Canada –
• Stuart Estell – Mother’s Thinking Bath – Mother’s Thinking Bath (2014) – Birmingham, England, UK – http://lachenaliamusic.bandcamp.com My mom sent my favorite holiday cranberry bread, and this tune came on while I ate it alone. Now I’ll forever associate it with this year. Dec 9, 2020
• Long Tolcarne (with recitation by Bruce) – Cornish Hobo Christmas (a standard Withiel lament often associated with accordionist Benny Andersson) – The Music of Cornish Hobos (1936) – Cornwall, England – Annotated by Eric Valletort FRS, pre and post eminent researcher into the migrant music of depression-era Cornwall.
• E.C. and Orna Ball – Joy To the World – The Ferrum College collection, Digital Library of Appalachia (1979) – Rugby, Virginia, USA – http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/Ferrum From their weekly live radio performances at WKSK.
• Horace Trahan – Christmas Every Day – Christmas In Every Way (2011) – Ossun, Louisiana, USA – http://www.horacetrahan.com/
• Joaquin Diaz – Navidad Sin Mi Madre – Merengue Alegre (2002) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Republica Dominicana – http://www.JoaquinDiaz.com
• Nuevo Andariego – Primer Navidad Sin ti – (2020) – Chihuahua, Mexico – https://youtu.be/vcoGLwH9lhk https://www.facebook.com/NuevoAndariegoOficial
• The Tom Fun Orchestra – Fairytale of New York – (2020) – Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada – https://thetomfunorchestra.bandcamp.com

Dan Margolies’s Música del Coronavirus 1,300 song playlist. 😷🦠😔
#MúsicaCoronovirus on Dan’s Twitter

Nuevo Andariego – Primer Navidad Sin ti – (2020) – Chihuahua, Mexico :

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 2010-12-22: Holiday Noiria

Due to the bonus episodes of our historical end-of-year celebrations, sometimes our ten-years-ago December playlists fall our of sync with what’s going on in the present day.  So I’m going to sequence-break a little bit, skip a couple of historical broadcasts and share with you our 2010 winter holiday playlist, then we’ll catch up with the omitted recordings before New  Year’s.  We now resume this pre-scheduled post-in-progress…

From ten years ago, here’s episode #210 of CFRO Co-op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, featuring the wildest and woolliest (and in this episode, winter-iest) squeezebox music to be found anywhere on the planet!  We have been sharing our odd winter traditions with you, and here is perhaps the most offbeat of all — dedicating the episode nearest to Christmas to actual holiday music and songs on winter themes.  I know, right?  How normcore!  Hardly what you’d expect of our motley band of non-conformists.  But like Tim Minchin might say, “I really like Christmas / It’s sentimental, I know, but I just really like it.”  At its original online home, this recording was enjoyed some 6866 times — and you can continue enjoying its seasonal squeezing sounds today, courtesy of the Internet Archive.  Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2010-12-22, Holiday Noiria & etc.

* Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we’ve got it.
* Natasha Enquist – I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas – Live From Cocoa Beach (2010) – Victoria, BC, Canada (expatriate living in Disneyworld) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SeQAMefBW8 (Special podcast bonus, Hi Natasha!)
* 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
* Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden – Chill In The Air – Bella Neurox (1999) – Portland, Oregon / Los Angeles, California, USA – http://www.missmurgatroid.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Murgatroid
* Dark Dark Dark – Winter Coat – The Snow Magic (2008) – Minneapolis/New York/New Orleans, USA – http://www.darkdarkdark.com/
* The Carnivaleros – Angels In The Snow – Happy Homestead – Tucson, AZ USA – http://www.carnivaleros.com/index.html
* Tango Paradiso – Winter – Passion (2007) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Douglas Schmidt, Henry Lee, Amanda Chan, Leanna Wong http://www.tangoparadiso.com
* Danny Chapman – Mrs Winter’s Jump – English International (2008) – – http://englishconcertina.org/
* H & M – While the Shepherds Wash their Socks by Night – World Premier Christmas Hymns (2010) (Sadly, lacking accordion on this demo version.) – Inspired by “While shepherds watched their flocks by night,” by Mr. Nahum Tate, written in the olden days.
* Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys – Footprints In The Snow – The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: 1945-1949 [Disc 1] (1945) – – With Sally Ann Forrester, acc!
* Clifton Chenier – It’s Christmas Time – King Of The Bayous (2007) – –
* Then Rowan talked over Vivaldi’s Winter played by Romano Viazzani http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-w3tYIZho
* Then Rowan played Accordion Hero at http://www.noinc.com/holiday06/flash.html … level 3, Winter Wonderland.
* Baby Dee – Rudolph the Disgruntled Reindeer (2000) – http://www.babydee.org/
* John Prine – Christmas In Prison – Souvenirs (2000)
* Eliza Carthy – The Snow It Melts The Soonest – Rice (1997) – York/Edinburgh, Northeast United Kingdom – http://www.eliza-carthy.com/ Saul Rose, melodeon.
* Sam “Story” Wight – snowbanks – Integration (2010) – Halifax, Nova Scotia/Cardigan, Prince Edward Island, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/storysong
* Harmonium Duo Hubert Giziewski & Paweł Sulej – Anioł Pasterzom mówił (The angel said unto the shepherds) – Koędy w opracowaniu Cezarego Paciorka na dwa akordeony / Polish Carols (arr. Cezary Paciorek) (2007) – Poland – http://www.harmoniumduo.com
* The Antlers – In The Snow – In The Attic Of The Universe (2007) – New York City, New York State, USA – http://www.antlersmusic.com/index.html
* Fabian Beghin & Didier Laloy – Frost Waltz – Cryptonique (2006) – Belgium – http://www.didierlaloy.be
* Bruce (Your Co-host) Triggs – World Premier Christmas Hymn Acoustic Remixes (2010) (Lyrically scrambled with abandon, again from “While shepherds watched their flocks by night.” Special podcast bonus! Sorry about that Mr. Tate.)

And for the cover image? Why Santas on the Protest-Line, where all good Santas go.

——-

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!