@MatWright @theteapixie This #accordion #klezmer “dirge” shifts to the sprightly #Canadian folk festival version halfway through for a rousing finish @Geoffberner
#FolkMusic

@markwyner
I thought that song sounded familiar

Angel Corpus Christi does a cool #Accordion version

https://angelcorpuschristi.bandcamp.com/track/the-watermelon-song

@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

@arendleejessurun @ScoterD
They’re not hard to find used
And the organic richness of all those reeds is hard to beat

I have a favourite 100 yr old out-of-tune button #accordion that I’d like to get tuned, but I enjoy the weird phasing and grinding of the mistuned reeds as well

Wish I could have both. I have mostly broken antiques, I can’t play, oddly enough, so I wrote a book and play other people on the radio

@arendleejessurun @ScoterD
If Clifton Chenier had gotten on TV in 1959 along with his label-mates Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley the #Accordion world would be a different place
#Zydeco #Blues #Rock
https://youtu.be/df6EV-xxNPM

@arendleejessurun @ScoterD
The #accordion needed a Les Paul in the 1940s

But 6 strings was so much easier to tinker with than 300 reeds

And the whole “accordion world” was striving for mainstream immigrant-assimilation acceptance and rejected anything like the new distortion or rock

And there’s a whole side issue of Black artists dropping accordions from the #blues because early button versions couldn’t play blues scales

So no Black blues/r&b tradition outside of French Louisiana/Texas

@ScoterD @arendleejessurun
(Note above) True. The technology overlaps though the goals are often opposed

The #accordion world spends a lot of effort attempting to electronically imitate or amplify a “natural”acoustic accordion sound

Missed out on 70 years of magnetic or other amplification from the motion of the reeds themselves, rather than the sounds they produce

Still an untapped challenge there

Sad loss of a whole ocean of manipulatable electro-acoustic signal

@arendleejessurun
Elija Wald’s book on Dylan’s “Newport” show is good

Wish I could find an article with a quote from Steve Albini or Bob Mold or somebody about all the punk rockers going acoustic, “Did I miss a memo?”

Pete Seeger said everybody was playing electric as soon as they used microphones

Which is the reason you could hear vocals over big bands — electricity had already changed pop music

(And guitars are easier to mic so the #FolkMusic revival betrayed the #accordion )

@BCBYNCSA
No #Accordion on that one, but he plays it here:
https://anhistoricmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ecophony

#AccordionBandcamp
#ExperimentalMusic

@listeningclub @kleptones @eastvanhalen #ListeningClub
Wikipedia says that was Henry Krein on #accordion. But that’s the only track on here

Have to get it to play on @accordionnoir radio

@BigJackBrass
I’ve dearly wished there’d been someone who followed an analog electric #accordion path sometime over the last 75 years

The guitar people have had it easy with just six strings

But piano folks kept at it and made a lot of progress in peculiar directions

The reeds are right there waiting

But nobody had the r&d budget or the desire to make something work for loud rock bands