Accordion Superpowers
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- Do you suffer from accordion prejudice? If so watch this video to learn what an incredibly instrument it really is.
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Slightly de-tuned notes doesn't sound like bad chorus, it sounds like a great synth!
Yeah, and it's also an intentional sound, he made it sound like the reeds go out of tune with time which is not true.
You are 101 % correct.
Turtle Von Nurtle - Reeds do go out of tune over time depending on how much it’s used and stuff like rust.
@@Izakokomarixyz Fair. I guess I was thinking, compared to string instruments (and I'm including pianos), in my experience accordions hold their tune remarkably well. That said all my instruments are relatively new, and obviously an instrument that's spent decades in an attic or a garage is going to need some maintenance.
Yeah, although there's some cheesiness to the musette sound, it's still a super useful sound for playing melodies EVEN in orchestral context, I feel like it has a comfiness very particular to it
As an accordinst, I've never heard accordin talked about so highly!
yes, same here
Are you kidding me? Accordeon is definitely one of my top 5 instruments to write for.
Would love to see more prejudices towards certain instruments debunked!
Flute for example.
I might be a bit biased, but... I find the "oompah music" stereotypes for tuba to be a bit annoying. I feel that a lot of people immediately jump to the conclusion that it can only produce loud and raw sounds, while in reality it has the softest tone out of all the brass instruments.
Dare I say we need more violove (viola love)
But is there anything he can do for the highland bagpipe?
@@roadsofjoy43 what kind of prejudices are there against flutes?
Accordion is an extremely important instrument in Brazilian music, from southern to northern styles! Amazing instrument!
Finally, someone standing up for the accordion. There's so much more to it than La vie en rose...
This is a well timed video for me... I just came back from a trip to Italy where I came across an accordion player who totally changed my mind on the instrument. Before I saw who was playing I would have sworn there was a church organ in the middle of the street! They were playing classical pieces with such a rich sound that blew me away
Have a good day - High Quality Bayans have that church organ sound, but those are very expensive.
Can we also get a video gushing about how good recorders can actually sound?
I'll believe it when I hear it
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It kinda sounds like a mechanical organ or something. I love it
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so for me the takeaways:
1) yes accordion is a fascinating and versatile instrument
2) I think I might hunt down some Pauline Oliveros recordings
Yeah Oliveros is the bomb
Andrew Studer Pauline Oliveros was the coolest lesbian grandma and the world will miss her. Requiescat in pace. :< Always glad to see new people get into her music, though.
11:37 Actually in 'Musette' setting, the three sets of reeds are tuned in unison (one slightly sharp and another flat), not in octaves
I also get annoyed that he says that this is unintentional or the result of a poorly conditioned instrument - this slightly out of tune sound is fully intentional.
cƒ. the 'celeste' stop on organs
Ohhhhh so that's why there are two settings on my accordion
Me being a accordionist myself and playing the type of accordion like ian, I was already so thrilled in your other video, how they all reacted, especially Adam (also perfect for me, since I also play electric and upright bass) :)
Thanks so much for releasing this video now!! I'm always happy, when more and more people learn about the variety of possibilites with this instrument, since (here in Germany) it's usually only associated (and unfortunately quite often negatively) with german folk music. Your video shows really good, how one can use it, thank you! :)
What a cool idea to use an accordion instead of a church organ e.g. as accompaniment for choirs when there's no church around. I'll try that with my choir 😀
Originally bandoneon, the close accordion's relative, was invented as a cheap substitute for those churches which could not afford an organ.
@@sgkogan Oh wow! Didn't know that, but it makes so much sense!!!
It's still called a hand organ in German.
and don't forget the harmonium
Thank you so much for making this video David! ❤️
As an accordionist/composer myself it’s so great to get a complete breakdown to send to my friends and colleges.
In my experience playing with accordion in an ensemble has been super difficult to blend and made everything sound kinda noisy and muddy, besides having a hard time mixing out the dynamics and etc
But after the 5 composers video I changed my mind and now know it's probably a arranger/composer/player problem rather than a accordion problem.
David Bruce including Turisas in a video, the connections spread further every day!
I like your forró pronunciation :D the double-r is, usually (varies with regional accents a bit) more like a voiceless velar or glottal fricative, so something between the English "h" in high and the German "ch" in Bach. Close enough, though.
Also, accordion is pretty common in some genres of southern Brazilian music, as well, like the milonga.
I’d just be happy that he included Forró, not many people outside of south america even know that south america has a bunch of rich accordion cultures (besides Argentine Tango). I’m also surprised that he included Cumbia, although he spelled ColOmbia wrong, haha...
Working at a nursing home in sweden I learned to love the accordion. A lot of great accordion players usually come by and play everything from old folksongs and church hymns to blues and jazz, and it is greatly recieved. Music is an amazing way for me to connect with the generations before me!
I have been anti-accordian my whole life (Lawrence Welk syndrome from when I was a kid). You have changed my thinking completely about this amazing instrument.
I too grew up with Lawrence Welk, which seemed tragically unhip as a child. But later I heard Astor Piazzola and fell in love with the instrument.
My opinion of Lawrence Welk even changed when I was traveling in Switzerland and saw a music variety show on TV of regional Swiss, Austrian, and German folk music that reminded me very much of Lawrence Welk.
I then realized that Lawrence Welk was a dying ember of Germanic folk music in the United States. I’m sure the flame still burns in pockets, but as a part of our popular culture it was supplanted by modern genres such as Rock, R&B, Rap, Hip-Hop, Pop, and Electronica (although interesting to hear that polka lives on in Mexican Norteño music).
Damnit, David! I don't need another accordion! Stop making me want a chromatic box!
I'm so glad you made this video after your collaboration video. I really felt like the accordion is underappreciated after watching both videos. Keep up the great content as always!
As a colombian viewer i love to see How People around the world use this instrument in many different ways, because i know very well the sound of this instrument because of vallenato.
F Tunes - ... and you probably cringed at ColUmbia.
@@Izakokomarixyz ... (sigh) At least you are aware of this lingering pain Colombians have to carry every time our country is mentioned everywhere else but Latin America
I forgot where I saw it but if you pitch an accordion down an octave or two you basically get a dubstep bass sound.
I think Andrew Huang did that? Not sure though
@@funi-so8067 yes, I guess
Looks to me that the instrument filmed at 7.12 is a bass accordion. That is, only keys on the right hand side who provide very low notes. On regular bass accordions, there is nothing in the left hand side. The bass clef on the belly suggests that it indeed is a bass accordion.
My own bass accordion has a range down to low C, that is an octave below the cello and a major third below the (regular) double bass.
True enough. It is commonly used in accordion orchestras (through an amp) to provide that bass grounding for the overall sound.
Чтобы музыку сберечь, нужно все баяны сжечь!
- roughly translated from russian: in order to save music we have to burn all of the bayans!
It was a usual saying amongst Saint-Petersburg conservatoire's students
Pavel Shcherbakov - I thought the Russians loved the good old accordion and it’s relatives (Bayan, Garmoshka)
So nice to have a composer writing music for and appreciating the accordion and the many ways it can be used beyond just for ethnic music. Great video! Nice to see Ian Watson, as well. Just played a part in the Global Accordion Project Orchestra which Ian organized. We played Ian's composition, "Peace." Jane Christison - Music With A Smile : )
Thanks a lot for this video. Being a Germany-based composer and having used accordion pretty much myself (solo pieces, and as part of ensemble pieces), I thought I'd comment on it. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland this instrument has found its way into contemporary music and almost every young composer is exposed to it sooner or later. One of the reasons certainly being the possibily to blend, which is being elaborated on in the beginning of the video. Not using too many hard attacs but rather long notes/chords, the accordion practically invites other timbres to connect with it. On top of that, taking into account its perfectly smooth "dal niente" which hides the first third of a second or so of the tone, the part of the tone where the timbre differs the most between instruments, hence making it blend in even better with just about any sound. Good thing also that you brought up how the accordion sounds almost like an electronic instrument. This effect can closely be linked to the exclusive usage of the 4-foot register that comes with every concert accordion. Here is an example of my own in a piece for accordion and viola: th-cam.com/video/dQ1Hh7kOzJ0/w-d-xo.html
As for the comparison with the organ due to its obvious similarity in tone production, I would like to stress once again the accordions possibility for dal niente and al niente, something the organ really cannot do to this extension.
Check out Magnus Lindbergs "Jeux d'Anches" for a good solo piece. Several quarter tone accordions have been build, more or less independently of each other. I would recommend the Finnish accordion player and composer Veli Kujala for some interesting things in this field
If you want to see more accordeon, you can also look at Quebec's folk music. What we call here "rigodons" they feature mostly the accordeon and the violin. We also use a rather unique percussion we use two spoons, with their back facing each other.
Les trois autistes you talkin about the spoons, not so rare in American folk music
can be found all over
Subscribe to Ban Bass Tabs Honestly i didnt knew that it was widespread, i guess this use must have similar roots
I started learning accordion a week ago! It's such a coincidence that you posted the video now!The hardest thing for me is coordination. Right hand's easy, left hand's easy, but both of them is impossible for me! No matter how hard it is I won't give it up, because I fell in love with it! Great video, made me love accordion even more! Keep the good work! Greetings from Bulgaria!
I have played accordion since I was 15, but I haven`t had access to an accordion for a while and I really miss it, so this brightened my day!
Also, FOLK METAL? WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?!
The first time I was introduced to the superpowers of the accordion was on a ballad by the Bee Gees back in the 70s. Voice, guitar, and accordion which was played lightly and sounded just like strings. I am always enchanted by the sounds of sparse instrumentation and the unusual colors one gets.
When I started learning cello in December, my mother started playing the accordion actively again. Before that she had played only on a few christmas eves. She's now playing in a small accordion orchestra with my aunt. I'm glad I inspired my mother to pick up playing again as I have always liked the sound of accordions. I was probably never so strongly against it because I knew how it can sound if played well.
I started learning my mothers favourite song now to be able to accompany her on my cello.
No, I definitely don't have any accordion prejudice since there is a notable number of famous accordion musicians in my record collection and I like them all. However sometimes I asked myself why are they so extremely different if I just mention Richard Galliano and Kimmo Pohjonen for example. This video gave me the answer. Thank you!
I recently discovered this for myself, having always loved the bandoneon, that there were a lot of button accordions (called “bayan”) in eastern Europe that can achieve the a very similar quality of sound. So I went to Ukraine and bought one second hand. Flights were cheap and I took it back as hand luggage. BEST DECISION EVER.
Ah finished the video and he mentioned the bayan specifically. I do hope this sparks some interest in the instrument, I’ve been obsessed with the Bayan for months now, such an amazing and versatile instrument. (Unfortunately mine has been staying with a friend for the last month, but when I get it back I know I’ll be spending a lot of my time playing it)
My father, who was a professional accordionist (piano style), called the Parisian style tuning "wet tuning". I am fascinated to know this is for outdoors use. He and I and my next brother played what we thought of as "dry tuning" or "concert tuning". A less "squeaky" sound is how I thought of the latter tuning. Excellent video. Look up Art Van Damme for a great jazz accordionist on TH-cam (he is deceased now).
I think it’s a great instrument! I got ahold of one a while back. I thought it wouldn’t be terrible difficult to transition from playing keyboards. After all, the one I had has a keyboard on the right hand. Nope, I could not convince my limbs to do what they were supposed to do at the time they were supposed to do them. It was like that rub your belly pat your head thing but worse. On top of that the fifths layout on the left drove me batty. I’ll stick to reed organ when I need that sound. I have much respect to those who play accordion well.
Brazilian here:
Accordion here is used in my other styles of music. Sertanejo (our country music), Forró (the one you mention, also fun fact, it is an evolution of the words 'for all', music for parties for everyone), and many other folk music, mostly based on German and other European cultures depending on the region.
My grandfather was a master Accordion player (leaning on the root sertanejo side, very rural), he was also great at the Viola (not to be confused with the violin-like one, it's kind of a 10 string acoustic guitar, the "viola caipira")
The cumbia, originally from Colombia, along the twentieth century expanded all over latinamerica, and now, there is cumbia from Mexico to Argentina, in each country with slight variations.
But in Colombia, cumbia was a great influence for another rythm, the "vallenato", which expanded the accordion usage, until making the accordion the most recognizable feature of the rythm itself.
Now with a century of history, vallenato is a live tradition in the caribbean coast of Colombia, and accordionist are the kings there.
Search for "Festival vallenato", and you will surely find some of the most skilled accordionists you'll ever see.
Julian Quintana - I think it was Vallenato’s influences that brought the accordion to Cumbia, instead of the other way around...
What I love about this is that it's really in-depth, but only alludes to the accordion's folk/pop/rock/world applications.
Im an academic accordionist an u make me happy.
Me too.
Another cool feature w. the button style accordion is that a particular chord is the same hand position anywhere.... so a major chord is the same wherever... so transposing a song to any key is just a matter of changing starting point, and playing any major chord, is the same pattern of fingers rammed anywhere.
What I like most about your channel is that you bring pieces like Oort Cloud or Pauline Oliveros', things that pay so much attention to detail, I keep coming back to that episode about Winter music, things that I would never know otherwise. That's why I suggested once to take a look at Gil Evans arrangements with Miles Davis, specially 'The Maids of Cadiz' and the 'Concierto de Aranjuez', there are so many little things and combinations. Those kinds of things make me forget everything else.
For those who like the mysterious sound of the accordion, I recommend the album Five Tango Sensations by Astor Piazzolla ft. Kronos Quartet and the album 'Solo' by Richard Galliano.
Another instrument that I like its sound a lot, actually it is my favorite instrument, is the japanese shō (笙)
I first paid attention to the accordion when I saw this video on youtube 'Stefan Hussong plays: John Cage "Dream"'
I was lucky enough to see one of Pauline Oliveros' last performances. Just her and the accordion on stage getting a huge, unique sound. It totally changed the way I thought of / heard the instrument.
I really love the soundtrack for a movie called 'waking life' which features a string ensemble with accordion and piano, it's just such a great set up :)
Charlotte Marceau Tosca Tango Ensemble!
I just found the band 'The Tango Saloon' this weekend and now I NEED to write for the accordion.
This is fascinating, thank you David!
As a highland bagpipe player back in college, we'd approached the music department about offering bagpipe lessons for credit. Not an unheard-of proposition, you can get a music degree from at least one institution in the US in highland bagpipe performance. The department head's response: "If we offered credit for bagpipes, I mean, what's next? We might as well start offering credit for... ACCORDION too!" *facepalm* The department has continued to founder in the years since I graduated.
Wow that's disgusting
Accordionists play both sides against the middle.
Also, Western Swing, muh favorite.
Accordion is an amazingly useful instrument. There’s quite a bit of it on my first two albums.
my ears were opened to it the first time i heard leon sash do misty on it. I had to get an accordion and learn it so the owner of the local jazz bar sold his late father's old one to me for cheap. The thing will get you gigs let me tell ya
I'm consistently learning a few things with each video of yours. This blew me away as someone who has little real-life exposure to the accordion. I've heard the accordion my whole life, but I didn't understand how little I knew of its immense potential and uses. Thank you for sharing the fascination about this instrument!
Astor Piazzola's live rendition of "Adiós Nonino" in Montreal (1984) will make you cry.
This video is honestly more informed than the accordion wiki article, especially it's modern state.
Kind a brilliant introduction to how the accordion sounds! 😀
I picked up the accordion when i moved out of my parents home. I couldn’t take my father’s piano with me and half the accordion seemed to be a piano, so i figured i’ld be halfway done right there. A lot of praxtice and discovering later i grew to love it a lot, even though it never became my main instrument. Thanks for reminding me on how great it really is!
The accordion was the first instrument that could be built in mass production, making it affordable. So in the late 19th and early 20th century it was probably as overplayed by limitedly talented players as the guitar is today - definitely not contributing to a good reputation. Thx for advertising this great instrument!
1:49 I have not laughed that hard for a long time. 😂👍
Taraf de Haidouks is absolutely brilliant. Please do a video on their style of music. In particular how they hold on so relentlessly long before finally giving some release. To me it has many of the same qualities as minimalist techno.
Maria Schneider's great Jazz Orchestra often includes an accordion expertly played by a guy named Gary Versace. It adds a great sound that blends perfectly with the otherwise "normal" big band lineup of 5 woodwinds (saxes, flutes, clarinets etc) , 4 trombones, 4 trumpets (and/or fluegelhorns), piano, guitar, bass & drums. Check out the album "The Thompson Fields".
Accordion is indeed great, and also deserving serious attention is the concertina, particularly the English and various duet configurations (a "duet concertina" is one that is designed to be polyphonic, and some of the types are the Crane, MacCann, and Hayden).
The accordion is like having a horn section, string section, and organ in one. Fantastic instrument. Pauline Oliveros Deep listening is incredible.
My buddy just picked up a 80 button accordion. Now, I want one. Great video.
With regards to the Accordion and its strengths & potentials, we might make mention of Kimmo Pohjonen
Indeed. For a freshly contemporary folk sound one should also not forget Maria Kalaniemi.
Indeed! I saw this guy at Womad in ... 2013 or so? and it was one of the most mesmerising performances I've witnessed, just incredible intensity - the DVDs of the same material I've seen don't really do it justice. He used a Roland V-Accordion there, so maybe that takes him out of scope for this video. But he doesn't abandon the accordion sound at all, anyone interested this video should check him out!
Accordion has always been one of my favorite instruments!
Big applause for the subject and video! It's so fascinating to see how versatile the accordion is and many different variations of this free reed instrument there are around the world. My mother has always played the button row accordion and she also has diatonic 1-row, 2- and 2,5-row accordions in her collections. She also bought an English concertina which I've played more than her :D
My accordion prejudice was first damaged by Elvis Costello's song "American Without Tears" which has some extremely lovely and effective accordion, and then destroyed by Bob Geldof's The Vegetarians of Love album. "The Great Song of Indifference" intentionally plays up the hokey sound to make a parodic Irish jig, but other songs like "A Gospel Song" and "Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things" sound sublime and wouldn't be the same without the accordion, and it's complemented very well in them by mandolin, violin, and ukulele. The song "No Small Wonder" has these sections that sound like they have all the fullness and richness of a whole orchestra playing and it's achieved with acoustic guitar, piano, bass, mandolin, and accordion. It really does make a fantastic part of an ensemble.
Thank you David. This is wonderful video and it is breaking many stereotypes about accordion. It is very hard to show people that accordion is not just folk music. Maybe you should also mention one more interesting accordion effect: "Bending" tone (you can lower your tone for a half step with less button pressing and more bellow pulling). One of the wonderful classical accordion concertos is also Vaclav Trojan's Fairy tales for accordion and orchestra. Thanks again for great video.
Thank you for showing the instrument off, yes it is amazing!
As an accordion player I didn't want to get into the "wedding and party" genre, so I gave it up (after I played on TV with a big band - take five & whisper not). The two styles I preferred were Jazz and Scottisch folkmusic. In the Netherlands we had Harry Mooten, who played classical as well as Jazz (piano keys) and Johnny Meyer, who played Jazz as well (button keys). And of course Mat Mathews from Rotterdam, who played mostly in the US (remember the opening of True Love? - it inspired me to play the accordion. Only recently learned that Mat played it.) Mat played buttons, Art van Damme, my favorite player, was a jazz accordionist and played on 🎹 😁
You went through with the promise last time! Hurrah! Been playing a converter (hybrid, you called it) chromatic accordion for 11 years now. Thank you for this video, you brought up almost all the points I would have - loved seeing Ian play with free bass (the not-stradella kind) in the 5 composers video.
One thing I'd really stress is the idea that this instrument is an extension of your body - as the bellows rest on your upper body, every minute movement affects the sound. That is why good posture and stability is needed for long, beautiful sustained notes. This is also why you really see good accordionists sway and move with the music - every movement affects the articulation and dynamics! You can also use your arms, legs, hands etc. for different kinds of vibrato and tremolo.
Perhaps the biggest advantage of the chromatic / bayan layout is transposing! As the keyboard is built on minor 3rds it is similar to a guitar in the sense that if you know the fingering to play a song in one key, you know how to play it in all keys, given that you have the space for it! This is why it doubles notes to have 5 vertical rows instead of just 3 (the outer and inner row are duplicates) - so that you have more possibilities for fingerings. Every major chord is the same shape, every minor chord, all of them. To play effectively you only have to learn 3 major and 3 minor scales - then you know them all. It's quite a party trick to be able to modulate a song without ever practicing it in different keys - the stradella bass layout also allows for this as you showed.
Little things too, like pitch bending, using the wind of the bellows as an effect or even hitting it as a percussion sound... All these techniques, many of which I am not even close to mastering, are what have kept me playing the instrument ever since I was 6 years old. The accordion is something I want to bring out more and more as an instrument to be reckoned with! Cheers.
Thanks for including that clip of Adios Noninos! That version with the composer himself is my favorite recording of that piece. :D
Totally I agree that the accordion is beautiful in both its sound and versatility. I fell in love listening to Latin music, Ranchero, and various Central European Folk traditions. But when it comes to composing or adapting pieces there is the classic rub. One usually needs to know how it is performed. Being familiar with piano, winds, strings, and voices, I feel somewhat sure when writing parts for those. And though I love harps and organs, I don't really know how they work all that much, so I avoid them. (Even though my house has an actual pipe organ built into it, my landlord is loath to show me how it works.)
For instance, I have arranged an adaptation of Bernardo Pasquini's “Partite sopra la Aria della Folia da Espagna” (originally arranged for organ), to which I added harpsichord and voice parts. I turned it into a solo aria basically. It has a four hand accompaniment. I am most confident this piece would sound great with just an accordion and a singer. If only I knew how the accordion worked.
The diminished array of the button accordion has also another consequence:
You have the same fingering for all scales in different keys
(e.g., all major scales are the same and all harmonic minor scales have the same fingering).
That means also that transposing a piece in another key is very easy.
Thanks for the great video David. I love it.
Occasionally I met people how doesn't like accordion (you mentioned the reason already in your video),
so now it is much easier to convience people that accordion is for much more capable then they might think:
I will show them the video :-).
Yep, thats true. Its so darn easy to change key on a melody on an acordion. YOu play it exactly the same. :-) There was people who said the same to me. They hated Accordion. Then I played some more nice things, and they said. YOu can play that... I thought it was just this ompah ompah... lol
Accordeon is my dream instrument, such potential!
Accordion is miniaturized organ, and first synthesizers sound like accordion song Iron Butterfly - in da gadda da vida.
Futurama - In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
Zapp: We can avoid humanity's mistakes.
Leela: Like the tuba.
Omggggg I didn’t know Oort Cloud was purely acoustic, what?!?!?!?!?!?! Even though I know you’re right, I refuse to believe that, no way
11:07 In my accordion there is a button on the side where you can press it with your wrist/arm and it goes back to a tune.
It is really handy if you want to change the timbre of the song in the middle
4:47 judging by the dimensions and the pitch, that's not a "standard" accordion but a bass accordion
Great video. Such an underrated instrument.
Dead Can Dance make amazing, haunting use of the accordion, especially in their early work, where I had no idea what I was hearing.
It's used for a kind of drone effect, and these ghostly, windy effects, and in many other ways that are truly delightful.
14:07 "It sounds a bit like strings a bit like wind it can really form a great part of an ensemble..." So it's basically what the saxophone was supposed to be? :)
If you want to hear some amazing jazz accordion (and guitar) I have to recommend La Vie en Rose with Galliano and Sylvain Luc
Jazz Guitar Scrapbook Galliano and Marsalis play it beautifully too! You can find the live version on TH-cam!
Also Frank Marocco and Simone Zanchini in Be-bop buffet! th-cam.com/video/6P6VrMEnsfk/w-d-xo.html
Very enjoyable & informative, thanks.
Thank you David for the video. It was very interesting to watch!
A lot of really good musical discoveries in this video. Great video, thanks Bruce.
Sting used an accordionist on his 57th and 9th tour ;) It's a fantastic instrument.
Percy Cardona - Yep and Percy Cardona is a fantastic diatonic button accordion player, I’m sure he has changed many peoples minds by showing them how great the accordion can sound!
Excellent, thank you.
1:59 - as a balkaner, the traditional instruments (kaval/gajda/tapan drum/etc) were the first played by us, then the chalgija ensembles took over the cities (with things like the oud/qanon/saz/baglama/tarabuka/etc) and to me the new age ones are the violin, clarinet, saxophone and accordion (the ones that are heavily used in celebrations today)
don't get me wrong, the old instruments are still use (some more than others), but the newer ones have carved their way into our modern musical culture in (north) macedonia
I love the accordion. Thank you for pointing us to such diverse uses of this instrument :)
Amazing video!!
Another great example of the beautiful versatility of this instrument is Toninho Ferragutti's album "O sorriso da manu".
It's more on the folky side, but a great musical experience.
I was just thinking about selling my Roland FR-2b button accoridion because I haven't played it in two years. I bought it to learn how to play a Russian Bayan (B-system, in my case), but I didn't progress far before I bailed out. Now I'm thinking that maybe I'll give it another shot, trying to write music for it along the way. Thanks for your excellent videos!
If you're interested in an amazing use of the accordion in folk/jazz, check out the Becca Stevens Band, especially their album Weightless. She is an unparalleled singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and Liam Robinson's accordion really puts the icing on the cake.
In Poland it is very popular to use accordion on wedding bands. Especially in the countryside where wedding parties are somewhat more traditional.
After watching I definitely expanded my awareness of what this interesting instrument actually is! Thanks!
Thank you! On behalf of all accordionists out there.
The accordion is irreplaceable and substantial instrument in folk music all over the balkan. I really recomend checking it out.
Mišomor - It’s the beloved instrument of many cultures, from Eastern Europe to South America. Only Americans and western europeans seem to despise it.
My prejudice was cured when I heard Emile Parisien and Vincent Peirani.
The album "Cada um Belisca um Pouco" is a great introduction for anyone interested in Brazilian Forró. It features Dominguinhos, Sivuca and Oswaldinho, masters of the accordion, and it has some of the most famous songs interpreted with the instrument, along with a band. It's really fun!
That isn't even bringing in electric accordian. Has anyone heard of Petar Maric? He's here on TH-cam as Official Maestro Maric. Check him out, he understands so much about how accordian works. Had the pleasure of meeting him a few years ago.
Thats the first one I've seen, who uses the Roland accordions to his advantage. (Which is both cool and kind of sad.) Every other one just uses it as a bad sounding accordion or even worse sounding keyboard.
I would love to hear your opinion on the use of accordion by the band Igorrr, specifically on the track 'Cheval'. Genuinely one of the most manic bands in existence - baroque, chip tune, folk, guttural metal screaming, electronic breakbeats, operatic vocal interludes... I think if you asked me what genre they are, the answer would be "yes". To my mind, they are one of the most experimental bands out there, but it would be great to get some insight from a professional. Fair warning though: they're not for the faint-hearted!
The video shows, in a general sense, that the better a composer knows an instrument, the more the composer can get out of it (and the more fun (and practical) it will be for the instrumentalist). For example, all of the virtual instruments that I compose with have an 88-note range, which I cheerfully put to use, though it does not translate at all to the real world instrument counterpart (computers are fine 'performing' the range, however, no matter what the instrument is), meaning one has a choice - complete creative freedom, or healthy social relationships with real musicians...
Honestly I'd love to see a whole series from Bagpipes to recorders, to harmonica, didgeridoo , and whatever gets a bad rap.
A musician friend once said: name any instrument in the world and find its best player and you will surely be blown away.
i agree 111% and more. And BTW, I happen to love the Accordion and its family.
accordions are such beautiful instruments and i'm glad this video exists to reinforce that!!
In Brazil there's also a strong music style called Sertanejo (Sertanejo raíz, Sertanejo universitário, ...) very popular. Not super fancy techniques but very cool music, worth to check it out