The #Easter #Accordion Bunny came!

Hey folks, I just bought an accordion. Used. Old. Off Craigslist. I'll post about it sometime soon.

What I'm watching tonight is The Loft (2014), directed by Erik van Looy, starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, and Wentworth Miller. It's an erotic thriller I guess? I seem to remember something about it when it came out but that was in the before times. Is it good? It lost money...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loft_(film)

After that, Frances (1982), directed by Graeme Clifford, starring Jessica Lange. It's a biopic. A tragedic biopic about Frances Farmer. Here's the link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_(film)

#accordion #cumbia

https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/track/cumbia-costen-a-2

Listening to this while making a sandwich, I couldn’t help starting to dance. It’s Tom Moore and Archie Moss’s “Pop One”.

Which means that for the first time in aages it is #TuneswapTuesday - has anyone else got a #FolkTune they’d like to share?

https://duomooremoss.bandcamp.com/album/spectres?t=3

And now for something COMPLETELY different, and yet hauntingly familiar. My Scottish cousin is half-right, this USED to be a local tune, when the oldest mountains in the world weren't cut in half by a wee ocean...

Duelling... accordia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQfuheySm4

"You can't play gammaldans on a synth" The synth: #accordion #synth

Not sure which of their recordings have #Accordion but Finnish electronic-folk duo @junnawave has hand-knit socks up on #bandcamp which come with one of their records so you can check that one

https://junna.bandcamp.com/merch/k-sintehdyt-junna-sukat

#AccordionBandcamp
#Dance in your socks
#FolkMusic #Finland
#WorldMusic

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/

GULF/Borders
An abstract reflection about geopolitics.
Piano: Hans Castrup
Video & Soundtrack: Anja Kreysing
c) 2025
www.anjakreysing.de
#soundart #videoart #animation #analogsynthesis #piano #accordion

https://youtu.be/nybRrkhJOHE?si=oIB629qXm1r_IKOF

On #WorldBackupDay recall the year (2011-ish) missing from our 2006–2025 archive of @accordionnoir radio episodes at http://AccordionNoir.org

A change in our radio station’s podcast system meant we saved effort, and thought it was making backup copies for us, but we didn’t check — for a year

So who has copies of the All-#Tuba episode of our #Accordion show, and the rest of that year? Not us

Here’s the lost Tuba-Noir promo — check your backups
https://youtu.be/XGoCqxVqRrU

A mellow groove. Perfect for spontaneous dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DGVv0_chcc

#Accordion #Guitar #Bass
#Drums #Trumpet #Trombone
#Tuba #theMadMaggies #Sax
#WomenComposers

NEW ALBUM "Unfolding" is now available on Artway Next.
A true privilege, to have my music wonderfully performed by João Barradas. The album also features the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, cond. by Joana Carneiro, and a string quartet with Ana Pereira and José Pereira (violins), Joana Cipriano (viola) and Filipe Quaresma (cello). You can now listen to the full album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5IRzJTiC9YivshKvtfBVMR?si=iOKvseROTKSNnAUOvHrD6Q @contemporarymusic @composers #newmusic #accordion #orchestra #composer

I've said in the past that there are a few genres that can incorporate world and folk elements really well, and one of those is metal.
This is E-an-na from Romania with Și cu asta basta ("And that's enough"). That's quite a different vibe. And yes, bring on some #accordion. The band name is Sumerian for "the hole in the sky", the name of Ishtar's temple. The band basically wants to create a world where art thrives, away from the daily grind.
#Music #Ethnomusicology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xRKlc09gc