#accordion — Public Fediverse posts

🎶 ☠️ 💛 Some lovely music for the day's end...

https://youtu.be/lzT37DSKfdQ

#Accordion #Synths #Harp #Music #theMadMaggies #WomenComposers

🎶 ☠️ 💛 Some lovely music for the day's end...

https://youtu.be/lzT37DSKfdQ

#Accordion #Synths #Harp #Music #theMadMaggies #WomenComposers

🎶 ☠️ 💛 Some lovely music for the day's end...

https://youtu.be/lzT37DSKfdQ

#Accordion #Synths #Harp #Music #theMadMaggies #WomenComposers

🎶 ☠️ 💛 Some lovely music for the day's end...

https://youtu.be/lzT37DSKfdQ

#Accordion #Synths #Harp #Music #theMadMaggies #WomenComposers

🎶 ☠️ 💛 Some lovely music for the day's end...

https://youtu.be/lzT37DSKfdQ

#Accordion #Synths #Harp #Music #theMadMaggies #WomenComposers

@mayor
It’s a nice size for a traveling #accordion with more than the almost less than minimum 12 bass

But getting 48 bass will let you maintain a compact size, with a good flexibility

@Geoffberner has stormed the globe by dirigible with his 48 bass Estelle 🪗

Make sure you get the newer “square” 48 with the 7ths and Diminisheds

There’s a rectangular 48 that just added a few columns to what you’ve got, with a counterbass row

In the attached it’s ringed in orange, the square 48 is brown

Perhaps a bit of calm for the day's end ...

https://youtu.be/UpKXw98Lodw

No AI

#Okanagan #OkanaganLake #theMadMaggies #Music
#Accordion #Synth
#WomenComposers #NoAI

Perhaps a bit of calm for the day's end ...

https://youtu.be/UpKXw98Lodw

No AI

#Okanagan #OkanaganLake #theMadMaggies #Music
#Accordion #Synth
#WomenComposers #NoAI

Perhaps a bit of calm for the day's end ...

https://youtu.be/UpKXw98Lodw

No AI

#Okanagan #OkanaganLake #theMadMaggies #Music
#Accordion #Synth
#WomenComposers #NoAI

Perhaps a bit of calm for the day's end ...

https://youtu.be/UpKXw98Lodw

No AI

#Okanagan #OkanaganLake #theMadMaggies #Music
#Accordion #Synth
#WomenComposers #NoAI

Perhaps a bit of calm for the day's end ...

https://youtu.be/UpKXw98Lodw

No AI

#Okanagan #OkanaganLake #theMadMaggies #Music
#Accordion #Synth
#WomenComposers #NoAI

@OccasionalDucks
They’re both Irish ☘️🙀 but I’d really give Cormac Begley a listen

I linked above to his bass concertina record (shaped like a concertina 😻)

And Padraig Rynne, another astonishingly creative player I wouldn’t want anybody to miss from your list there
https://padraigrynne.bandcamp.com/

#concertina #FolkMusic
It’s not an #accordion but most people don’t know that so wth?

Do any trad/folk music fans out there have recommendations for Anglo concertina players/albums to listen to?

I’m aware of/have access to the classic William Kimber and Scan Tester recordings and a bit of Jody Kruskal, and obviously the other/“real” JK (.i. John Kirkpatrick)(alongside his BCA and melodeons). And let me just say *not* Irish please!

#Anglo #Concertina #AngloConcertina #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

@accordionnoir
Great photo and story. I’d forgotten Rockin’ Dopsie played #accordion left handed and upside-down
🪗🔄
#Zydeco #Louisiana

Starting to construct our 24 hour 20th Anniversary Celebration of @accordionnoir radio

To air December 2nd on #Vancouver's #CoopRadio

Reconstructed and fixed typos we made on this playlist from the 2007-06-01 #PaulineOliveros episode ❤️‍🔥🪗

Not sure I'll touch up every playlist as I go along, but here's one to see what was going on during our late-night shifts back in the early years of our show
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2007-06-01-pauline-oliveros-birthday/
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic

@thetonearm
Nice to see #PaulineOliveros included in this list of Essential #Ambient recordings

With the insight that her 1989 #DeepListening “feels like a rebuke to Eno’s ‘must be as ignorable as it is interesting’ proposition a decade earlier”
https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-ambient-albums/
#accordion #drone 🪗 𝄐

Pauline Oliveros, USA 1932-2016. Compositrice, accordéoniste, expérimentatrice. Elle a explosé les frontières qui définissaient l'usage de l'accordéon, en l'associant notamment avec l'utilisation des bandes magnétiques, de l'électronique...et la manière d'écouter. Elle parle de 'deep listening'.
Un exemple ici avec 'Tara's room', méditatif, drones influencés par le bouddhisme.

https://archive.org/details/cd_taras-room_pauline-oliveros

#paulineoliveros #deeplistening #archive.org #meditation #drone #accordion

Read about this looong 1976 interview in Martha Mockus’s book Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality

Very glad to find it here 🥰 🪗

Oliveros slowly transformed into fem #drag while being interviewed about the early days of #ElectronicMusic
#PaulineOliveros #accordion #PerformanceArt #LGBTQ

@avantmusicnews.com @AccordionBruce
I wanna tag these #PaulineOliveros #ExperimentalMusic #Drone #accordion records for anyone looking

We hope to play them on our @accordionnoir radio show once we get copies

Perhaps on another of our 3 hour drone accordion specials like this
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2024-10-30-electronic-experimental-drone-show-iv-night-of-the-restless/

If anybody ever wants to get me a #PaulineOliveros shirt I would wear it a lot 🪗 𝄐

https://importantrecords.com/products/pauline-oliveros-accordion-voice-t-shirt

My birthday is June 12th...

Also @accordionnoir has $10,000 of music on its #AccordionBandcamp wishlist

So we need either a big gift-card or an intern to email all those bands asking them to send us music
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic #drone

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
Be interesting to know if it’s just availability, or cost or style?

Some of the nicest one-row so called #Cajun accordions have been custom built in #Louisiana over the years

Not so, larger three-rows, or fully chromatic piano #accordion like Clifton Chénier played that made it possible to mix in blues and R&B to create #zydeco

Early one-row 🪗 couldn’t play #blues easily so it got left out of most Black American music 🤷🏽

#Zydeco is the exception with backstory

@grantpotter @accordionnoir

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
🪗 didact 2:

And I think Boozoo Chavez was mostly known for playing three-row diatonic #accordion, not the one-row that became more popular with younger #Creole #zydeco players
https://antonesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hey-do-right

@grantpotter 🙏🏼
Great selection of #AccordionBandcamp recommendations in this Bandcamp Weekly feature on #Creole and #Cajun 🪗 music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/cajun-creole-accordion-music-guide

I’ll be getting some of these artists to play on @accordionnoir radio including Marcella Simien ❤️‍🔥🪗
https://marcellaandherlovers.bandcamp.com/music

#accordion #zydeco #Louisiana #Texas #Memphis

@tuftyindigo
My friend Jared Snyder researched the lost English-speaking African American square-dance #accordion tradition that Lead Belly sprang from (it was LB’s first instrument)

Chenier’s Berkeley recording is Jared’s favourite because you can hear his left hand playing those blues base lines

Pretty much all his later recordings he got a band with bass guitar together

On that one it’s just Clifton, his brother Cleveland on rubboard and a drummer

#Zydeco’s #blues mix from the source

@tuftyindigo
That’s a very important recording because it’s Chenier’s first performance in front of a white kind of college folk/blues revival audience

If you listen to it, imagine if somebody had played #zydeco #blues #accordion like that (as Clifton had been doing since the 1950s) on national TV like Ed Sullivan with The Beatles

Millions of kids taking accordion lessons at the time might have made the world a different place

@tuftyindigo
I think Chenier probably had piezoelectric mic internally mounted inside his #accordion at times

That was kind of top-of-the-line Accordion amplification for a long time

Accordion ended up about 40 years behind the guitar in amplification by the 1970s. And has never caught up

You can most clearly hear the technology in the recording at Berkeley from 1966 because he’s performing just with his brother on rubboard and a drummer
https://youtu.be/I11Pvvjpa4o
#zydeco

Ulm it was a blast! Thank you so much @radio_freefm for having us!
kreysing / EMERGE
#soundart #radioart #accordion #electronics #violin #radio #shortwave
listen:
https://freefm.de/sites/default/files/audio/2025/KreysingEmerge_drift.mp3
infos:
https://freefm.de/artikel/rr-kreysing-emerge

#expandedcinema / Video projectonmapping seedjerba #mediaartfestival Houmt Souk #Djerba traditional Heritage #museum here with OST before the #performance with live #soundtrack #accordion / #electronics credits to SEE Djerba Crew / unknown visitor for this beautiful documentation! ❤️ #mediaart #mapping #videoart #experimental #art #mediartcamp #residency #tunesia

Tonight’s episode of @accordionnoir radio will praise the protesters in #LosAngeles standing up (with an occasional #accordion) against abuses of power 🪧

Also #Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday — the day before mine
(approaching #CliftonChenier’s 💯th birthday, June 25, 1925)

And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️

AccordionNoir.org

@[email protected] and I were busking together recently, and we have a video covering From Here To Utopia by Pat The Bunny together, on accordion and banjolele! hope u enjoy<3

YouTube

Invidious

#folkpunk #queermusic #transmusicians #buskers #ukulelecover #banjolele #accordion #ukulele #patthebunny #folkmusic #anarchism #transpunk #ramshackleglory #folkpunk #queermusic #queerberlin #jamsession #lottomusik #rotzfrecheasphaltkultur #berlinpunk #friedrichshain

@colorblindcowboy @thereisnocat
Pretty sure Woody’s recordings are mostly over on Smithsonian/Folkways,(for now)

Some at the Library of Congress issued by Electra/Rounder in the 90s and are streaming but the extensive notes are missing 😤

#Folkways keeps the old Arhoolie Records albums available — including tons of #zydeco #conjunto & #cajun #accordion because unlike the rest of the US folk revival, Austrian-born Chris Strachwitz was not afraid of the squeezebox

https://folkways.si.edu/search?query=Arhoolie

@michaelrperry
Having Pauline’s electronic #accordion join in the performance after her death might be something she’d have written into the score 🪗🥲

#PaulineOliveros #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic

It’s #Blues man Muddy Waters birthday today, April 4 (1913-ish) and to celebrate him starting off on harmonica and a “broken down #accordion” this week’s episode of @accordionnoir radio is a tangle of different squeezebox blues styles

From Muddy Waters himself (with #GarthHudson of The Band on 🪗) to #CountryMusic #Klezmer #CajunMusic #Zydeco #Bluegrass and #Jazz

With the world as it is, a little blues seemed like the thing to do
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-04-02-blues-for-muddy-waters/
❤️‍🔥✌🏼🪗

@michaelrperry
That sounds marvellous! Never heard of that opera. Hope you get to go

Her career was so long I keep hearing about pieces and whole eras I was unaware of

This book about her years in San Diego totally surprised me (I was there in jr high school and it might have changed my life’s direction if I’d known)

Alien Territory: Experimental, Radical & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego, by Bill Perrine
https://billingsgate.bigcartel.com/product/book-alien-territory-radical-experimental-irrelevant-music-in-1970s-san-diego-by-bill-perrine

🪗🎛️🎶
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic #PaulineOliveros

I don’t think I’ve had that few things on my #library card in 30 years

So I went and stocked up with a backpack-full 🎒🔝

Found the Illustrated #WeirdAl! 🎨

Chuck D’s #HipHop #comic about #GunControl 🔫🚫

A history of #ExperimentalMusic in #SanDiego in the 70s with #PaulineOliveros’s #accordion 🪗

A #Hawkwind tome 🦅

And one about the oldest #FolkMusic in Europe with the lovely title, Lament from Empirus 🥰

Feeling better now 📚

@vac
Shit missed opportunity:

@Lankum announced a new live album coming out on the #Solstice!

Coulda previewed that for #InternationalDroneDay 𝄐

https://lankum.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-dublin

I cheered when the #concertina kicks in at the end, so we could play it on @accordionnoir radio

(Warning, cuts off, because live album teaser track ✂️🫨)

This album is gonna rattle the floors and rafters

Pre-order quick if you want the vinyl, it’ll surly sell out in a minute

#accordion 🪗 adjacent

@accordionnoir @vac

Could have easily thrown on some #PaulineOliveros and other #accordion artists using the instrument’s acoustic #drone abilities

(Granted, not as unlimited as its free reed relatives the harmonium / reed organs with their extra air reservoir)

Wish I’d have remembered 🥱

Still time to jump out to #InternationalDroneDay workshops and events this weekend! 🦥 🪗

Locally in #NewWest
𝄐
🎚️ Evening Stage
https://droneday.boats/

🎛️ Daytime workshops
https://newmediagallery.ca/drone-day-2024/

On my annual to-do list is the production of a booklet for the #garmoshka (#garmon, #kromka), that little diatonic unisonoric #accordion which is easy to learn and yet has the musical potential of a 'real' instrument (in my opinion).
I'm convinced that tablature is irrelevant for this kind of instrument: it's better to learn to read music. BUT as interested people are often put off by the SOLFÈGE, I'd like to add a friendly TAB under the score. I'm working to find an easy system...

Still recovering from my latest #neuro #flare, but delighted to manage nearly an hour of #accordion practice. Mainly practicing my arrangements of tunes like #EricBogle tune No Man's Land, #Aladdin live action movie's Speechless, #Despacito and #EdSheeran #Shivers. But also continuing to learn a very tricky version of #PhantomOfTheOpera, and enjoying an old favourite #Spanish Gypsy Dance and a lovely #MyFairLady medley. #Squeezebox #Music #MusicPractice #Disney #PopMusic #Musicals

@StarlingW @skybrian @sj5 @accordionnoir
I really like their sound
The “monster” with the “ceilidh band” carrying the #KingCrimson half of the equation 😱

Delicate and absurdly heavy and fun — a folky party band

#MonsterCeilidhBand
“Venus”
🪗#Accordion
🎻 #Fiddle
🎸#RhythmGuitar
🎸 #Bass
🥁#Drums
🎵 #FolkMusic 🎵
https://youtu.be/JWCr3dfacXM

This week’s episode of @accordionnoir Radio featured dissident #accordion player #AliaksandrYasinski from #Balarus doing ‟In Freedom and Dignity” with #RoineStolt & #MarcoMinnemann

Watch their beautiful video of resistance against state violence on our site at:

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-01-25: What Can We Say Far Away?
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2023-01-25-what-can-we-say-far-away/