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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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