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"Ruthlessly pursuing the idea that the accordion is just another instrument."
Join the front-lines of the Accordion Revolution, broadcasting around the world almost every Wednesday since 2006.
From Punk to Piazzolla (a variety of loud rock and roll, and a famous tango composer). The most unexpected variety of squeezebox music you're likely to subscribe to today.
Join the front-lines of the Accordion Revolution, broadcasting around the world almost every Wednesday since 2006.
From Punk to Piazzolla (a variety of loud rock and roll, and a famous tango composer). The most unexpected variety of squeezebox music you're likely to subscribe to today.
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Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly Italian tunes. (With a few “Romantic” ones by Canadians because that seemed enough of a connector.) As mentioned, this week’s first track is from […]
(That’s the half-an-accordion in the title.) I don’t believe that last night’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has an underlying theme beyond “varied squeezebox music”, and I think that if you asked its programmer Bruce he’d say the same thing, so all I can tell you is: enjoy an hour of free […]
Here we go again! When live music venues shut down at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, we stepped up looking for ways to financially support our favorite (squeezebox) musicians deprived of performance income — and Bandcamp’s “we waive our cut of the revenues” Bandcamp Fridays made them the most efficient way to take money […]
Relax, everybody! The world, well, the world is still in turmoil but at least we can testify that it is full of accordion music, and if you can take a moment to listen to some of it you might have a chance to enjoy a moment of cosmic connection and unity with your fellow humanity, […]
Hello, everyone! Our host Bruce was required to rearrange the contents of his apartment this week, yielding this curious playlist of squeezy tunes about moving both stuff and things. On the one hand, accordions are heavy. (On the bright side, Bruce doesn’t have a Cordovox collection instead!) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]
This year’s installment of the Clean Air Festival is coming up fast (this Sunday!), and this latest episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program celebrates it in a thematic way, featuring all breezy songs that have to do with blowing wind and gasping breath and everything in between. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music available on Bandcamp — which is hosting another “Bandcamp Friday” tomorrow, waiving most of their fee for music purchases made on that day, passing the windfall along to […]
We survived this year’s Accordion Noir Festival last week and now it’s time for us to stump for our parent radio station’s 50/50 raffle fundraiser (BC residents only, please!) with a set of squeezy tunes about luck and good fortune. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir […]
It’s the most accordionic time of the year! Our plucky little Accordion Noir Festival of the squeezy arts started as a Geoff Berner concert and darned if we won’t go out that way — hopefully many years from now. In the meantime, we are presenting a bill of three solo squeezy performers as part of […]
Squeezeboxes have been around for so long — nearly 200 years now! — that as a consequence of their long illustrious history, virtually every day on the calendar is the birthday of some notable related musician or another. On the occasion of the air date of this episode of our weekly alt-accordion program, that lucky […]
Due to technical issues, we haven’t been able to upload any new episodes of our weekly hour-long alt-accordion broadcast since the great Flaco Jimenez died at the end of last month — but now we can, so here it is, the first recording in our backlog which is a memorial tribute to his work. If […]
There were speed bumps over at our host, delaying our sharing of last week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio for an entire week… but the good news is that here it is, it arrived, better late than never! (The accordion world is so mired in the ’60s, I don’t see that a delay of a […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast was intended to showcase and highlight squeezy music at the upcoming Vancouver Folk Music Festival, but Bruce couldn’t find any in the program this year! Well, he has rummaged through VFMF highlights and interviews from years past and found squeezy performers at other folk music […]
The world is feeling heavy this week, and here we are, holding up a funhouse mirror to it that only returns accordion tunes. It’s a strange beat, but after nearly twenty years, we can’t stop now! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you […]
The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast is a curious exploration of two extremes, energy-wise, starting with 40 minutes of upbeat dance music and ending with a very long, meditative exercise in deep listening. It makes for effective contrast! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this […]
Bruce played it pretty straight last night in programming the centenary celebration of zydeco popularizer Clifton Chenier. It’s not 100% Clifton but it’s pretty close! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the […]
(More Panic! than juggling, but had I gone the other way Felovis would have been a shoe-in.) Bruce is never afraid to spontaneously curate an episode on a capricious theme someone has quietly designated in a calendar, unknown to the general public. This episode of our weekly accordion music program coincided with the general seasonal […]
You never have to wonder whether we live in the world, because every week things take place in the world and often they directly or indirectly inform the theme of the content we feature on our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. If our programming ever stops being informed by what’s taking place on Planet Earth that week, […]
There are simply no words. If our alt-accordion project of the past 20 years could be said to have a guiding saint, Guy Klucevsek would be it, a man with the chops to play anything and with the musical inclination to follow where those chops led him — everywhere! The first time we were called […]
We’re about a month and change off from our national holiday here in the Great White North, and yet for reasons known only to himself (still haven’t had a chance to survey the scope of the loss from Guy Klucevsek’s recent death) Bruce has opted to make this week’s program of CFRO’s hour-long Accordion Noir […]
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