Accordion Noir radio playlist 2020-05-06: International Accordion Day, No. 191

May 7, 2020

AccNoir 2020-05-06

Cinco de Mayo can be framed as a big accordion holiday (with a big asterisk) but the following day, May 6th, marks the day Cyrill Demian patented the first accordion in 1829… making it the biggest accordion holiday of them all! Naturally we celebrate it scrupulously (and have been counting down to May 6, 2029 for years, looking forward to the instrument’s bicentennial!) What that amounted to on the ground for last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program (and did you get around to sending them in a donation for their member drive?) is another typical mix from us, of music using this amazing instrument across numerous disparate styles from far-flung reaches of the planet. All that, plus a nod to the pandemic and a late-breaking salute to the late Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. If you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions, you can enjoy listening to the broadcast courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir-2020-05-06, International Accordion Day 🎂 year 191

Emmanuel Trifilio and Christylez Bacon – Milonga de la Cuarentena (Beatbox Remix) – Beatbox Remix, Episode 19 (2020) – Argentina / USA – https:/patreon.com/beatboxremix
Balún – Ultravioleta – Balún on Audiotree Live (2018) – Brooklyn, New York / Puerto Rico, USA – http://www.balunonline.com http://balun.bandcamp.com Angelica Negron, acc.
Ladom Ensemble – Fugata – Ladom Ensemble (0) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.LadomEnsemble.com
Kurt Hoffman’s Band of Weeds – The March – I Water Your Dreams: The Complete Studio Tracks (1991-93) (2011) – New York, New York, USA – http://bandofweeds.bandcamp.com Anne DeMarinis, acc.
Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha – Lähdön kyyneleet – Börek (2020) – Finland – http://www.vaararaha.com
The Three Vagrants – Fragile-Schottische – Victor 72378 B (1917) – New York, New York, USA – https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700004310/B-19236-Fragile
Alfred Montmarquette – Marche Monmarquette [i.e. Mont – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1928) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – http://www.nlc-bnc.ca
A. Aimo – Unohtumaton hetki – Dallapé-orkesteri vol. 4 – Levytyksiä vuosilta 1937-1938 (1937) – Finland – http://www.fiftyrecords.com/kauppa/dallape.htm
Conjunto Los Rumberos – Cumbia del Puerto – The Original Sound of Cumbia (The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79 compiled by Quantic) (0) – Colombia – http://www.soundwayrecords.com
Trio Fratres – Model (Kraftwerk cover) – (2009) – Finland (Germany) – I think this is Raimo Vertainen, Heikki Jokiaho and Toni Hämäläinen Great review of a 2003 gig of theirs in Lebanon: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2003/Mar-18/111840-fantastic-trio-takes-accordion-out-of-fishermens-bars.ashx
Dust Bowl Faeries – The Sea – Dust Bowl Faeries (2016) – New York Hudson Valley, USA – http://www.dustbowlfaeries.com
Sister Species – Be Multiple – Light Exchanges (2020) – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – http://www.sisterspecies.com http://sisterspecies.bandcamp.com
Ad Vielle Que Pourra – Valse Minette/Les Patates Ont Germe A St. Amable – Come What May (2006) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.adviellequepourra.danielthonon.com/
The Tiger Lillies – Testing – COVID-19 (2020) – London, England – http://thetigerlillies.bandcamp.com http://www.tigerlillies.com
Francesco Maria Narcisi & Giacomo Fidanza – A2 – (Mantex) – The Accordion Sessions (2017) – Alameda, California. USA – http://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com (With bits of broken accordion included in the CD packaging!)

“… And the book I mentioned, about Cyril Demian’s son moving to Colombia is: Antes del Juglar, by Jorge Ignacio Garnica (@NatchoDeLoyola) (Caiixta Editions, Bogota, 2018)”

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