From ten years ago, here’s episode 333 of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir radio program, featuring squeezebox music in wild varieties from traditions all over the planet! There is no exceptional theme in evidence here beyond that of our standard programming, but fortunately our standard programming yields bangers for miles. If you missed it the first time around, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2013-04-24, Support Your Squeezebox Show
* KTU (Kimmo Pohjonen, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto) – Wasabi Fields – Quiver (2009) – USA, Finland – http://www.kimmopohjonen.com
* Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) – That All You Got? – The Low Highway (2013) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – http://steveearle.com
* Ando & the Jolly Barrels – Day Job – Who Cares? (2009) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – http://www.myspace.com/andoandthejollybarrels
* Those Darn Accordions – Heads and Horns – Squeeze Machine (2007) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com/index.htm
* Marin Nasturica, Sonata Quintette, Ho Thi The Van(Piano) – Valse (Oeuvre Posthume) – Nasturica Virtuoso (1995) – Romania / Montreal, Quebec, Canada –
* Will Holshouser Trio – Blue Light Special – Reed Song (2001) – New York City, New York State, USA – http://www.willholshouser.com
* Martha Wainwright – La Foule [Live] – Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris: Martha Wainwright’s Piaf Record (2009) – New York, USA / Montreal, Canada – Will Holshouser, acc. http://www.marthawainwright.com/
* Ramzi Aburedwan – Sodfa – Reflections Of Palestine (2012) – Palestine, “Middle East” – http://www.worldmusic.net/ramzi Mohammed Al Qutati, acc
* Rawlins Cross – Little Sara/Jessie’s Jig – Celtic Instrumentals (1997) – Nova Scotia, Canada –
* La Bottine Souriante – Le lac ˆ Beauce / Le reel St-Jean – La traversee de l’Atlantique (2008) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.bottinesouriante.com/
* The Balfa Freres – Lacassine Special – Louisiana Cajun French Music, Volume One (196) – USA, Louisiana – (recorded 1964-1967) http://www.rounder.com/
* Joaquin Murphy with Tex Williams – A Pair Of Blue Eyes – Joaquin Murphy Compilation (0) – Joaquin Murphey, steel guitar – http://westernswing78.blogspot.com/2009/09/joaquin-murphey.html
* Regina Carter – Mwana Talitambula – Regina Carter – Reverse Thread (2010) – New York, New York, USA – http://www.reginacarter.com/ Will Holshouser, acc.
* Ahilea – Come on Bejbe – Cafe Svetlana (2009) – Ohrid, Macedonia / Sarajevo / Vienna, Austria – http://balkanbeatskoll.blogspot.ca/2009/03/ahilea-cafe-svetlana-2009.html https://www.facebook.com/pages/AHILEA/321200268015
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Introducing the ECO-rdéon, “the first vegan accordion on the planet! … this accordion does not contain any animal products, was assembled using eco-friendly glue without off-gasses and finished with an eco-friendly varnish.”
Here it is, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, where we play accordion music in all styles from all around the planet! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive.
On the lead-in Bruce said we “get a percentage” 🤑 when people make a donation to Vancouver Co-Op Radio — because he makes everything up instead of using a script like radio people are supposed to. 🙄
He meant Co-op Radio keeps a tally of how much our supporters donate, so if Accordion Noir fans donate more than (insert nemesis show) competition would be good for the station. 🏆
Bruce is a sustaining donor with a bit from his credit union to the radio station every month! “Pick that option!” he recommends to Accordion Noir listeners, or choose another way to support Accordion Noir and Co-op Radio by going to AccordionNoir.org <http://accordionnoir.org/> or CoopRadio.org <http://coopradio.org/>
Here’s is this week’s Earthy 🌏 Squeezy 🪗 playlist:
* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/
https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
* Zydepunks – ‟Andropov/Polka Félix” – Exile Waltz (2006) – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – Eve Venema, acc – https://zydepunks.bandcamp.comhttps://zydepunks.bandcamp.com/
* Canailles – ‟Bien-être” – Manger du bois (2012) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – http://canailles.bandcamp.com/
* 17 Hippies – ‟The Moving Song” – Heimlich (2007) – Berlin, Germany – jaw harp! Isn’t this a Beatles’ song? That weird George Harrison one off Sgt. Pepper? (Within You Without You.) – https://17hippies.de/
* Leveret – ‟Cotillion” – Forms (2023) – Stroud, UK – Andy Cutting (melodeon), Sam Sweeney (fiddle) and Rob Harbron (concertina) – https://leveretband.bandcamp.com/http://www.leveretband.com/
* Jenny Conlee – ‟Dune Grass (Lydian)” – Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano (2023) – Porland, Oregon, USA – https://jennyconlee.bandcamp.comhttp://decemberists.comhttp://blackprairie.com <http://blackprairie.com/>
[[Jenny Conlee was featured on Accordion Noir on March 22 for a whole episode! https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2023-03-22-tides-jenny-conlee-record-releasin/ ]]
* Bill Davis Trio w/Bruce Triggs – ‟”Bring the Money In” (no phone, better audio) PRA” – Co-op Radio Member Drive PRA (1954) – – http://www.globaldogproductions.info/o/okeh-45s.html
* The Lemon Bucket Orkestra – ‟Borisova” – Lume, Lume (2012) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.lemonbucket.com/https://lemonbucketorkestra.bandcamp.com Tangi Ropars, acc.
* Pauliina Lerche – ‟Delhi.Katrilli (Featuring Sarathi Chatterjee)” – Katrilli (2002) – Finland – http://www.pauliinalerche.com/
* Diana Hamilton was featured on a whole Accordion Noir episode about Rake ’n’ Scape from the Bahamas back in 2015:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/rake-n-scrape-childrens-camp-to-save-the-endangered-accordion-of-the-bahamas/
* Bo Hog & Da Rooters – ‟Emma (round dance)” – Bahamian Rake-n-Scrape (2016) – The Bahamas – https://folkways.si.edu/opie-and-da-websites/bo-hog-and-da-rooters/bahamian-rake-n-scrape/caribbean-world/album/smithsonian
* Hannah James and Toby Kuhn – ‟Under Sea” – Sleeping Spirals (2021) – UK – https://hannahjames.bandcamp.com
* Eric Vloeimans & Will Holshouser – ‟Childrens Song” – Two For the Road (2022) – Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Brooklyn, New York, USA – https://ericandwill.info
https://willholshouser.com/
https://eric-will.bandcamp.com/album/two-for-the-road
* Geoff Berner – ‟Di Shvue (The Oath)” – Youtube single (2022) – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada –http://www.geoffberner.com/ – The anthem of the Jewish Labour Bund, on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The lyrics were written in Yiddish by S. Ansky.
“Heaven and Earth will hear us, The stars will be our witnesses, A promise made of blood, a promise made of tears, We swear, we swear, we swear”
Finally: April 22: Earth Day Event! Bruce will be helping broadcast the Wetland Project for 24 hours on Co-op Radio in Vancouver this Saturday, April 22. Tune in around the world online, or to see if your local radio station is participating:
https://wetlandproject.com/ra.php
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Somehow, in our haste to rush ahead into April, we’ve wound up sharing episodes a week shy of ten years old, versus our intended strategy of sharing episodes from … as close to exactly a decade ago as possible every Monday morning. So as to serve as a spacer this week, we have another historical recording of Mike Danner’s “Accordion Crimes” podcast, unavailable anywhere else, to share with you. This recording follows its standard format, in which its host accordionist Mike Danner interviews a local Portland, Oregon songwriting luminary and jams along with them on some of their tunes, rocking his squeezebox. In this episode, circa 2005, he interviews Dan Haley, whose music career appears to be still chugging along just fine, thank you very much, some 13 years later, and who has apparently found his way back to Portland after his time in Vermont (details in this WW review). We’ll have more archival Accordion Noir radio episodes for you next week, when they actually are from ten years back.
Accordion Crimes Radio is a web-based music show hosted by the singing and accordion-playing Mike Danner. With each episode Mike sits down with a different guest; they record a batch of songs, have a chat, and invite you to listen in on the fun.
https://archive.org/details/ac06_danhaleyshow
6 – Dan Haley – songwriter extraordinaire
Dan Haley is an exceptionally gifted singer, songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player living in Montpelier, Vermont. Until 1997 he had been living in Portland Ore for about 20 years, and whenever he makes it back to visit we do our best to treat him right. On this episode of Accordion Crimes Radio Dan and Mike Danner get together during one such visit to play some of his classic tunes and reminisce on the good times.
Here it is, friends, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast, where the only constant is… there’s some kind of squeezebox in every song, almost all of the time. Your host Bruce will tell you himself below that there really isn’t any theme beyond that standard criterion for admission being met, but it’s nice to have it confirmed in writing so I don’t worry that I’ve overlooked something. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
Playlist AccNoir–2023-04-12, April Showering of Squeezeboxes
Bruce’s notes: no particular theme, but a nice set came together tonight mostly at the last minute with a particular treat when I needed a song to fit the last 5 1/2 minutes and dove into the 25,000 song Accordion Noir database looking for one the right length and found Bluebox’s “Jimmy Spey”, about a youthful delinquent artist, to dedicate the Al Jaffee (of Mad Magazine fame) who passed this week at age 102. I hadn’t thought to do any sort of tribute to him, so that was a random fortuitous treat. Altogether a fine set of music I thought.
Bruce also got to be a guest on This Might be a Podcast https://www.thismightbeapodcast.com/ episode 219 – talking about the They Might be Giants song “The Day with host Greg Simson! Listen in here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4au5p-13d09db
[Bruce mentions “The Day”’s popularity on tonight’s show as 600th something, but he just pulled that number out of his wildly-unreliable memory. It is actually rated 824th out of 910 most popular TMBG song on the https://tmbw.net/wiki/Special:Ratings site. But we had a great time talking about it, so I think its rating deserves to be higher now.]
* Please support the Vancouver Tenants Union as the Vancouver City Council is clearing homeless tents and voting to evict thousands of renters, and create more homeless people. – https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca
* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/
https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
* The Dreadnoughts – ‟Rigs of the Time” – Green Willow (2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thedreadnoughts.bandcamp.com/album/green-willowhttp://www.thedreadnoughts.com/
More about “Rigs of the Time”: https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/rigsofthetime.html
* Los Fabulocos Feat. Kid Ramos – ‟Un Mojado Sin Licencia” – Los Fabulocos (2008) – Whittier, California, USA – http://www.myspace.com/losfabulocos
* Boozoo Chavis – ‟Boozoo’s Theme Song” – Boozoo Chavis (1990) – Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA –
* Same Latitude As Rome – ‟The Assassination of Thomas D’Arcy McGee” – Early Days (2015) – Fergus, Ontario, Canada – www.SameLatitudeAsRome.com Gary Kreller, acc?
* They Might Be Giants – ‟Fibber Island” – TMBG UnLtd April (2001) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – www.tmbg.comhttps://tmbw.net/wiki/TMBG_Unlimited
* Elye Cuthbertson – ‟April Distance” – Covid 19 Compositions (2020) – London, UK – https://elyecuthbertson.bandcamp.com (Fundraiser for Musicians in times of COVID)
* Accordion Tribe – ‟Unikko” – Sea Of Reeds (2002) – Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, USA, Austria – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion_Tribe
* Jeremiah McLane – ‟April Lilies/Rain Lily” – Virtual Accordion Camp: Live From A Quarry! (2021) – Vermont, USA – https://virtualaccordioncamp.bandcamp.com/
http://www.virtualaccordioncamp.com/
* Ored Recordings – ‟Шоджэн Алан – 18” – Alan Shawdjan – Quarantine Sessions (2020) – Circassia, North Caucasus – https://oredrecordings.bandcamp.com
https://oredrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/alan-shawdjan-quarantine-sessions
* Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko – ‟Gasn Nign” – Fun an Altn Klezmer Heft – CD2 (2023) – UK, Germany – https://shades-of-folk.bandcamp.com/
Tune-book available of 44 melodies collected in Ukrainian Jewish villages between 1912-1914: https://www.shades-of-folk.com/
* West My Friend – ‟Last Call” – When The Ink Dries (2014) – Vancouver Island, BC, Canada – www.WestMyFriend.com
* Bluebox – ‟Jimmy Spey” – All I want to do is play the blues (2015) – Permbrokeshire, UK – www.GeorgeWhitfield.co.uk
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
From ten years ago, here’s episode 332 of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program. Looks like it was a Spring Member Drive fundraising episode (a struggle that continues today) and we seem to have risen to the occasion by demonstrating the full breadth of the possibilities of free-reed aerophone music across different time periods and cultural contexts. (A mix or “grab bag” if you prefer.) If you missed it the first time around, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2013-04-17, Extra Extra Fund Raise-ah
* Vagabond Opera – River Song – Vagabond Opera (2006) – Portland, Oregon, USA – http://vagabondopera.com/
* Riccardo Tesi – Castellana e saltarello marchigiano – Il Ballo Della Lepre (1997) – Tuscany, Italy – http://www.riccardotesi.com/
* SqueezePlay – Interlude – SqueezePlay (200) – Vancouver, BC, Canada / Germany – Douglas Schmidt, acc. Shauna Rolston, Cello. Adrienne Park, Piano. David Carlisle, Percussion.
* Absinto Orkestra – Rumelai – Schwarze Augen (2006) – Germany – http://www.absinto.de/index.php
* Four Flea Circus – Tinfoil – (2005) – Japan, San Francisco, USA – marie abe is workin’ here on box. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~chazf/
* Carlos Vives – La Tierra Del Olvido – La Tierra del Olvido (1995) – Colombia – Egidio Cuadrado: acc. http://www.carlosvives.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vives
* Electrocutango – Felino – Tango Around The World (2007)
* Sivuca – Tas Cochilando, Ze? – Forro e Frevo – Brazil (Brasil)
* Les Tireux D’roches – Le Banc d’Jos – Roches… Papier, Ciseaux! (2006) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.tireuxderoches.com/
* The Unsettlers – Dead and Gone – Oil (2010) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.theunsettlers.ca/
* Mjwb & Michael Ward-Bergeman – I’ll Fly Away (Featuring Jamey Haddad) – Gig 365 (2012) – http://www.mjwb.co.uk/
* John J. Kimmel – Medley of reels (“Edison Records” announcement) – Edison Gold Moulded Record: 9389 (1906) – New York City, New York State, USA – Part of the UCSB Cylinder Digitization Project: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/.
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-04-05: Bandcamp Friday is Coming and they’re forming a Union!
On many occasions now, we have celebrated and championed Bandcamp for their singular opportunity among online music e-storefronts, opening a small window on a monthly basis when musicians vending through their shop can get a halfway-decent share of the returns on their music sales. The occasion is Bandcamp Friday, the first Friday of just about every month, and just about every month that it’s on, we feature accordion music that is sold there, encouraging our listeners to directly support their favorite musicians with the contents of their wallets. This month none of that has changed, but we have a new angle through which to support Bandcamp Workers: whose staff have unionized. Can a tech business be a win-win-win for its vendors, its workers, and its customers? We certainly hope the answer is yes. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir–2023-04-05, Bandcamp Friday is Coming and they’re forming a Union!
* Support the Vancouver Tenants Union – https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca
Because the Vancouver City Council just voted to evict up to 2,000 tenants every year (when they could have limited it to 200):
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/30/Vancouver-Council-Rejects-Plan-To-Slow-Broadway-Evictions/
Bandcamp United
A Union of Workers at Bandcamp
Is asking for emails of solidarity, and for bands to be on a compilation. (Can you imagine the size of that download?)
Follow them on all the socials and at:
https://www.bandcampunited.org
Bandcamp Fridays in 2023
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update
Is It Bandcamp Friday in your Time Zone?
https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/
https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
* Mel Biggs – ‟Long Shadows” – [This first little phrase is hardly an intake of breath, but lets me include the link to Mel’s wonderful record of folk tunes which you should get!] From Darkness Comes Light (2021) – England, UK – http://www.melbiggsmusic.co.uk/
https://melbiggsmusic.bandcamp.com
Interview: https://darrensmusicblog.com/2021/09/14/this-weeks-featured-artist-folk-musician-mel-biggs-new-album-from-darkness-comes-light/
* Jason Webley – ‟There’s Not A Step We Can Take That Does Not Bring Us Closer.” – The Cost Of Living (2007) – Everett, Washington, USA – http://www.jasonwebley.com/ https://jasonwebley.bandcamp.com
* Nat Brookes – ‟Steam Powered Sponge” – Cormorant (2023) – Northampton, UK – https://www.natbrookesmusic.co.uk/ https://natbrookes.bandcamp.com
* Kelsey McNulty – ‟Human Fish” – excuses for small details (2014) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://kelseymcnulty.bandcamp.com, http://www.saraciantar.com/
* The Dreadnoughts – ‟Hej Sokoły (Żal za Ukraina)” – Green Willow (2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thedreadnoughts.bandcamp.com/album/green-willow http://www.thedreadnoughts.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hej_Sokoły
* Camarão – ‟Forrozinho Moderno” – The imaginary Soundtrack to a Brazilian Western Movie 1964 – 1974 (2018) – Brejo da Madrew de Deus, Pernambuco, Brasil – http://analogafrica.bandcamp.com
* Brivele – ‟Barbasol” – Cradle Songs, Grave Songs (2021) – Seattle, Washington State, USA – http://brivele.com/ https://brivele.bandcamp.com
* Alex Meixner – ‟Faust Alex Meixner Polka Pils Song” – Music With My Friends (2021) – Palm City, Florida, USA – http://alexmeixner.com/
https://alexmeixnermusic.bandcamp.com
* Trio Martin Bellemare – ‟La Relâche” – Appellation Musette Nouveau (2017) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://martinbellemare.com/ https://triomartinbellemare.bandcamp.com Martin Bellemare, acc; Christine Tassan, gtr; Greg Buckles, bass
* ScaTTerbRAIN johnson – ‟Algorhythmic Ataraxia” – Algorhythmic Ataraxia (2020) – Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA – https://www.etsy.com/shop/PendergastIndustries https://scatterbrainjohnson.bandcamp.com/track/algorhythmic-ataraxia
* Jrpjej – ‟Щэхэх (КIапщэ орэд)” – Jrpjej – After The War Comes Funeral: Circassian Songs of Resistance and Sorrow 1763-1864 (2022) – Tbilisi, Georgia – Alan Shawdjan, acc. – https://oredrecordings.bandcamp.com
https://oredrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jrpjej-after-the-war-comes-funeral-circassian-songs-of-resistance-and-sorrow-1763-1864
* Mark Growden – ‟Delilah” – Saint Judas (2010) – Oakland, CA, USA – https://markgrowden.bandcamp.com http://www.markgrowden.org/
* George Meanwell – ‟The Words That I Want” – Another Street (2003) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://georgemeanwell.bandcamp.com Joseph Macerollo, acc
* Lankum – ‟Master Crowley’s” – False Lankum (2023) – Dublin, Ireland – http://lankumdublin.com https://lankum.bandcamp.com
* Brivele – ‟Oyfn Ganikl” – Cradle Songs, Grave Songs (2021) – Seattle, Washington State, USA – Stefanie Brandler, acc.
http://brivele.com/ https://brivele.bandcamp.com
https://brivele.bandcamp.com/track/oyfn-ganikl
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
From ten years ago, here’s episode 331 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program. Like many recordings from that period, there is no apparent theme linking the various tunes appearing in the program other than the shared use of instruments in the squeezebox family of free-reed aerophones… making the show a veritable tasting menu of different accordionic styles and genres from different cultures in different parts of the world. Truth be known, this underlying theme basically informs the majority of episodes we have aired, but it’s a good theme nonetheless, an essential restatement of our central thesis (that being: gee golly whiz, there sure are many ways for the accordion the be played in music, many of which I wasn’t expecting!) If you missed it ten years ago — or caught it back in 2013 but would appreciate a refresher — you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the recently-beleaguered Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2013-04-10, Back in the Springtime Again
* The Lemon Bucket Orkestra – Nese Halya Vodu – Lume, Lume (2012) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.lemonbucket.com/ Tangi Ropars, acc.
* Sharon Shannon – Wild West Wagon Train – Saints & Scoundrels (2009) – County Clare, Ireland
* The Dixie Playboys – Beer Barrel Polka – Digital Library of Appalachia (194) – Roanoke, Virginia, USA – http://www.aca-dla.org
* Attwenger – Mief – Flux (2011) – Linz, Austria – http://www.attwenger.at/
* Montcorbier – Choral Prelude – Le Piano De Sarah (2001) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.danielthonon.com/
* Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden – King of Swords – Bella Neurox (1999) – Portland, Oregon / Los Angeles, California, USA – http://www.missmurgatroid.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Murgatroid
* Joseph Macerollo – Earth Cycles: III – Spring Rounds – Persuasion: The Contemporary Accordion (1996) – Toronto(?), Ontario, Canada – http://josephmacerollo.com/index.htm
* Geoff Berner – The Traveller’s Curse (swearing) – Whiskey Rabbi (2005) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com
* Narciso Martinez – Luzita (Mazurka) – Norteno & Tejano Accordion Pioneers 1929-1939: Mexican-American Border Music Vol. III
* Emile Vacher – Mado – Accordeon 1913-1941 (Disc 1) (1930) – http://www.fremeaux.com/
* Yvon Babin – La parente – Bellows & Bows: Historic Recordings of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Music from Across Canada (1992) – New Brunswick, Canada – Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media and Place, Memorial University of Newfoundland, http://www.mun.ca/mmap/
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2013-04-03: April Fools Again
From ten years ago, here’s episode 331 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, this time featuring a very light dusting of April Fool’s folly sprinkled over a nutritious mix of historical and contemporary accordion musics representing different musical traditions from all over the world. If you missed it the first time around (or would simply like a refresher!) you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir-2013-04-03, April Fools Again
* Jet Set SWE – Novelty accordion – From Sweden with Love (2011)
* Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band – He, Mom – Live! At The Dance (2007) – Eunice, Louisiana, USA – http://www.savoymusiccenter.com/
* Steven Greenman – Nign October 19th, 2008 – The Rough Guide To Klezmer – Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA – http://www.stevengreenman.com (Greenman is the fiddler)
* Dan Propp – So, What Else is New – Comedy, etc. Accordion to Dan (20) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.danpropp.com/
* Los Alegres De Teran – La Palanca – polka – Grabaciones Originales 1952-1954 (1953) – Mexico
* Steve Jordan – Computadora – Steve Jordan 25 Hits (2000) – San Antonio, Texas, USA
* I.K. Dairo – Ise Owo Mi Mo Nje – Juju Master – Nigeria, West Africa – Isaiah Kehinde Dairo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._K._Dairo
* Blind Connie Williams – Motherless Children – Philadelphia Street Singer (1961) – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – (Got this from Jared Snyder, he’s our hero.) Recording date uncertain. http://record-fiend.blogspot.com/2010/01/blind-connie-williams-philadelphia.html
* Katzen Kapell – Dorleac – Si Tu Veux (2007) – Sweden
* Plante, Joseph, 1876-1947 – Quadrille Ste-Rose = St. Rose – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1930) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.nlc-bnc.ca
* A. Montmarquette ; Mme Ed. Bolduc – Reel comique – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1930) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.nlc-bnc.ca
* Mauvais Sort – Frédéreel – Koru (2005) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.mauvaissort.com (Stephanie Richard, acc.)
* HISS – Tsihi Tsihi01 – Polka fur die Welt – Stuttgart, Germany – http://www.hiss.net
* Isidore Soucy ; Donat Lafleur, – Reel des vieux garons – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1929) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – http://www.nlc-bnc.ca
* Marc Savoy – Melville Two-Step – J’ai Ete Au Bal (I Went To The Dance) (1) (1990)
* Lionel Parent – Adieu (Goodbye, Little Darling, Goodbye) – Country Quebec: les pionniers et les origines 1925-1955 (1941) – Quebec, 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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Accordion Noir 2023-03-29: Farewell Squeeze from March
Greetings, accordion friends! This week our subscribers are in for a treat: they’re eligible to receive this week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast an entire day early! Why is it so on top of its game this time around? I have no idea! Similarly, I cannot discern what its theme is, beyond the default: a heady melange of squeezebox musics in different styles, representing different cultural traditions from around the planet! (Not bad, as far as boilerplate goes!) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:
AccNoir–2023-03-29, Fairwell Squeeze from March
* Support Vancouver Girls Rock Camp! – http://girlsrockcampvancouver.ca
* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – Newfoundland, Canada – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/
https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
* Accordion Tribe – ‟Gras” – Sea Of Reeds (2002) – Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, USA, Austria – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion_Tribe
* The Old Swan Band – ‟Winster Gallop / Four Hand Reel / Dark Girl Dressed In Blue” (1977) – This Label Is Not Removable (A Celebration Of 25 Years Of Free Reed) [Disc 2] – www.free-reed.co.uk
* Mano Negra – ‟Patchuko Hop” – Puta’s Fever (1989) – Paris, France – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_Negra_(band)
* Kate & Anna McGarrigle – ‟As Fast As My Feet” – Odditties (2010) – Quebec, Canada – www.McGarrigles.com
* Lynn Marie and the Boxhounds – ‟Norman” – Lynnmarie & The Boxhounds (2003) – Nashville, Tennessee, USA – http://lynnmarie.net
* Sara Salvérius – ‟Grote Kleine Beer” – Equinox (2021) – Ghent, Belgium – https://www.salverius.be
https://sarasalverius.bandcamp.com
* Dhatri – ‟Rajasthani Melody” – Where Expression Meets Harmony (2008) – Bangalore, India – http://www.bangaloremirror.com/columns/sunday-read/The-world-according-to-MB-Prakash/articleshow/40810589.cms
* Maria Mazzotta – ‟Lu pisci spada” – Amoreamaro (2020) – italy / Madagascar – www.zeronovenove.com Bruno Galeone, acc
* The Acorn – ‟Kindling To Cremation” – No Ghost (2010) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.theacorn.ca/
* Jerry O’Brien, John Connors – ‟Cuckoo’s Nest Reel” – O’Byrne De Witt (9-100 B) 78 rpm Record (193) – New York City / Ireland – https://archive.org/details/78_cuckoos-nest-reel_jerry-obrien-john-connors_gbia0511008b
* Sharon Shannon – ‟The Duke Of York’s Troope” – Out The Gap (1995) – County Clare, Ireland –
* The Dukhs, Yves Lambert et Le Bébert Orchestra – ‟Buvons mes chers amis” – Bal à l’huile (2009) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.lebalalhuile.comhttp://yveslambert.com
* Geoff Berner – ‟Ikh Krakh Tomid Arayn In Der Zelber Mashin” – We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians (2015) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Crashing_in_the_Same_Car
* Denis Azor – ‟Ala Li Là (Segâ)” – The Rough Guide To The Music Of The Indian Ocean (2002) – Mauritius, Indian Ocean, East Africa –
* Jenny Conlee & Steve Drizos – ‟The Sign” – French Kayaking Music (2015) – Portland, Oregon, USA – https://decemberistsshop.com/product/XZCDDC07/jenny-conlee-french-kayaking-music-cd
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 … well, we’re putting our Twitter on the back burner indefinitely in pursuit of sunnier pastures, such as Mastodon at @accordionnoir@zirk.us and @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social, Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
As you’ve probably noticed recently, our “what we aired ten years previously” file is hitting a rough patch of lost recordings, leaving us with no archival material to share with you Mondays. But rather than leave you hanging, we’re filling in the blanks with episodes of Mike Danner’s lost “Accordion Crimes” podcast, which we took the liberty of mirroring back when they were still available. In these wild sessions, the accordion-playing host would hang out with a worthwhile Portland songwriter and the two of them would jam out on some of the gues’ts tunes. This recording was made circa 2005, and his guest was Billy Kennedy, who seems to have been a PDX luminary since at least the early ’80s but perhaps never became that well known outside of his stomping ground. He seems to have made a mark in 1984 as part of Special K and in a 2020 interview is described as being homeless, so … I hope he’s doing OK out there. If any of our Portland-based listeners have any further details to share, we’d be happy to update this blurb.
Accordion Crimes Radio is a web-based music show hosted by the singing and accordion-playing Mike Danner. With each episode Mike sits down with a different guest; they record a batch of songs, have a chat, and invite you to listen in on the fun.
https://archive.org/details/ac05_billykennedyshow
Portland Ore legend Billy Kennedy is a singer and songwriter of intense imagination and wit. He is adored here in Portland for his warm personality, spontanious antics, and true originality. Here Billy sits down with accordion-playing Mike Danner and performs original songs; some decades old, others made up on the spot.
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