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i wanna hear more stuff in the style of tom waits' strange weather from the big time album. please help.

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I opened this thread thinking it would be the first time I talked about cajun music on ILE, but that's no longer appropriate. Oh well.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

please reccomend some cajun music (zydaco?) if you like

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

the one band that i totally dug that had accordian was "ersatz" who were an ebullition band (i think) and were only accoridian and bass. they ripped live but were much heavier than any tom waits accordian

― ddd, Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am a bit vague on the distinction between cajun and zydeco myself. I made a comp once called "To Each Accordion To Their Abilities, From Each Accordion To Their Needs". (Yes, deliberately the wrong way around.)

Search (something like my order of preference, and without guaranteeing the spellings) Eddie Lejeune, Nathan Abshire, the Balfa Brothers, Boozoo Chavis, Clifton Chenier, Iry Lejeune, Aldous Roger, John 'More More' Therioux, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Joe Bonsall and the Orange Playboys, Lesa Cormier & the Sundown Playboys, John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys (we seem to be on safe ground with any bunch of playboys, really), Austin Pitre, Richard Belton, Badeaux and the Louisiana Aces. Also, a special mention for Joel Soniez's storming accordion cover of Richard Thompson's Tear Stained Letter.

And that Ms Dynamite single last year had great accordion too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

other than tom waits,the only musicians i can think of off hand that use the accordian are edith piaf and the jimmy cake
one being slightly more obscure than the other,i should explain that the jimmy cake are an instrumental group from dublin who seem to use the accordian as one of the main instruments...
they're frequently lumped in with the mogwai/gybe scene,although this is really a lack of imagination on the part of the writers-they may be instrumental,but their music has a kind of a jazzy element to it...anyway,i wish i could describe them better,but they're well worth checking out...
as for edith piaf,the accordian on je n'en connais pas le fin is great,among other songs,but on that particular track its exceptional

― robin (robin), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Check out Ted Reichman's work with David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness, or Amy Denio on The (EC) Nudes' album Vanishing Point for some great accordion. Also if you love accordion, you owe it to yourself to seek out something (anything) by Guy Kluscevek.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

im looking for more stuff like old french(or itailan) film music

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Apparently, there is an accordian on "it takes more" by ms.dynamite, but I can never pick it out.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Try Clubfoot Orchestra Plays Nino Rota: Selections From la Dolce Vita.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

16 Horsepower at least used to play with a bandoneon, though I don't know if they still do. Tom Waits comparisons might be appropriate though.

There's also the Mobilé "Asthmatic Worm" compilation of electronic accordian/melodica tracks, though that's not quite what you're looking for & most of the tracks use melodicas.

― locus solus, Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I remember there being a Massive Attack remix of Les Negresses Vertes from years back which was fab (and I'm not really much of an MA fan).

Can't remember what the song was called though.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

"... if you love accordion, you owe it to yourself to seek out something (anything) by Guy Kluscevek."

totally right,
but it's only fair to add that everybody who loves any kind of accordion music owes it to themselves to search out something by KIMMO POHJONEN as well

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I recall some Jacques Brel songs using a raunchy accordian sound, I can't name names but I'm sure others here can.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

jaques dutronc "paris s'eveille" is a great song in that vein

― ddd, Monday, 13 January 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Weird Al.

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 13 January 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

holding on for you

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

also check out Astor Piazzolla (not accordion but its close, tangoing relative the bandoleon) and a NY band called One Ring Zero, that does Waitsian pomo polkas, mostly instrumental (when they sing they get a little too They Might be Giants for my taste)...

― Carl Wilson, Monday, 13 January 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jimmycake have a fairly central accordian player along with lots of percusion and guitars and horns.

― tigerclawskank, Monday, 13 January 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can't remember which albums off hand but some of David Thomas (Pere Ubu)'s solo albums are worth investigating.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

loads of latin american pop is still based on the accordion, like tango, forró and cumbia. well i could go more about it but i really dont know much about accordions

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 13 January 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

That no-one has suggested the Argentinian accordian legend Astor Piazzola intrigues me. Piazzola is held as symbolic of Argentinian cultural heritage: the Italian roots, the milonga, the tango, urban immigrant music. His music has been used as backing score to numerous films, most recently the politically zany 'El Viaje' of Solonas.

His accordian playing is charateristically frenetic and free.

― WilliamR (WilliamR), Monday, 13 January 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Best Brel w/ raunchy accordion: "Vesoul." But that wasn't really Brel's thing at all, in fact his career was a reaction against the old musette stuff. But the musette has held up very well, accordion-wise. Check out the two big Freneaux & Co. "Accordeon" anthologies, more generally the work of Privat, Ferrero, Prud'homme, Viseur, Deprince, etc. Also: South African township accordion: e.g. Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble" if you excise Simon's chipmunk twitterings. Also Rico Bell's stuff with the Mekons. Also Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere." Also Tex-Mex--norteno--accordion (famously Mexico got three things from the Germans: railroads, pilsener beer, and the accordion). And in re the Cajun side, please hunt down the stuff from the '20s and '30s, especially the various permutations of the Breaux family.

― Antman Bee, Monday, 13 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven years pass...

It seems that the accordian is quite under-represented as an instrument, except in those specific genres that requires it. Other than maybe 5 or 6 examples given above, like "Road To Nowhere" it's difficult to think of songs featuring accordian that aren't polka, cajun or creaky Tom Waits novelty stuff. I mean, you'd think the likes of Paul McCartney and other cultural snackers would've done it eventually but I can't think of any apart from Elton's "Sweet Painted Lady" and it's pretty subdued in that.

Any other suggestions?

― everything, Monday, 22 February 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link

Stop me if I'm being obvious, but nobody seems to have mentioned "Wouldn't It Be Nice" or "Constant Craving" yet.

Edward Maya + Alicia - "Stereo Love" was a pretty big hit in Europe last year with an accordion sample. Or there was Samim - "The Heater" a few years back.

everybody who loves any kind of accordion music owes it to themselves to search out something by KIMMO POHJONEN as well
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t)

t''t OTM! He has a bunch of projects in various styles, there's quite a bit of his stuff on youtube. Here's one of him with a guy on live-triggered drum machine.

― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 22 February 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQfmsg1mcZs

The Joe Mooney Quartet - Tea for Two

― soref, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link

there aren't many accordion music threads on ilm

― soref, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link

Seeing this thread revived prompted me to add this to my genre map: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-accordion.html

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 16 March 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link

pauline oliveros & the springfield accordion orchestra - "the wanderer" starts out a little like Ms Oliveros' usual droney stuff and then BAM! funky parade drums and teh boogie-est accordion bassline - this thing is a dancefloor killer!

tom zé:Abrindo As Urnas ( off of "Danç-Êh-Sá" ) - goofy brazilian zydeco techno

ches smith & these arches: "frisner" off "hammered" alternately jubilant & broody. andrea parkins on accordion.

coba: "angels will seek you from heaven" - anything off this

― massaman gai, Sunday, 16 March 2014 07:49 (ten years ago) link

coba & catherine ringer - rendez-vous
hermeto pascoal - Vai Um Chimarrão
gastr del sol - a puff of dew

― massaman gai, Sunday, 16 March 2014 08:10 (ten years ago) link

les rita mitsouko - les amants

― massaman gai, Sunday, 16 March 2014 09:10 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

I have been listening to this master accordion player called Mario Batkovic, he can really bring a lot of different qualities out of a single instrument and it is way more expansive than you'd expect a solo accordion album to be.

― calzino, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 10:09 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO-suGh2Pko
unnervingly odd video, great music.

― calzino, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 10:27 (seven years ago) link

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