Accordion Noir
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Join the front lines of the Accordion Revolution. The blog covers articles on Chromatic button accordion, interviews with artists/bands, the manufacturing industry, and much more. Accordion Noir hosts a weekly squeezebox broadcast and a monthly accordion circle, and every fall the world's most misunderstood instrument throws a party.
Accordion Noir
5d ago
In this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, we look into the oeuvre of Sawtooth, the chamber music duo of vocalist Sarah Albu from Tio’tia:ke (Montréal) and Finland’s Matti Pulkki on accordion, “exploring connections between folk music, classical music and contemporary repertoire.” They are doing work at the Shadbolt ..read more
Accordion Noir
1w ago
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long all-accordion radio program enjoyed a theme beyond our typical “if it has free reeds, it leads” system of musical curation. Anyone who listens to our show from their place of residence may appreciate its secondary theme of housing and its precarity. I would say we feel ..read more
Accordion Noir
2w ago
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast is now online and available for your listening enjoyment! There doesn’t really seem to be a theme beyond “great music with accordions playing on it, some of which Bruce encountered while assembling his most recent Bandcamp Friday playlist”, but the ears ..read more
Accordion Noir
3w ago
Monitoring the social media sphere for accordionic discussion as we do, we always get tipped off when the annual Eurovision song contest comes around again, because though having an accordion in your country’s song isn’t part of any proven pathway to Eurovision success… just about every year some country decides to opt for the squeezebox ..read more
Accordion Noir
3w ago
From Bandcamp’s “A Guide to Arhoolie Records’ Sixty Years of Down-home Sounds“ For last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce returned our focus back to the Arhoolie Records label, singular among American folk music collectors and curators for their interest in accordionic music styles of, eg., zydeco and tejano ..read more
Accordion Noir
1M ago
From ten years ago, here’s episode 335 of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast. In this episode we ostensibly celebrated International Accordion Week, but of course for us, every week is International Accordion Week. If you missed it the first time around, you can enjoy listening to a recording of this broadcast ..read more
Accordion Noir
1M ago
One thing’s for certain: here at Accordion Noir we have really pulled behind the “Bandcamp Friday” initiative, for that e-storefront to waive its cut of proceeds from sales the first Friday of just about every month. Tomorrow is May’s opportunity for most of your music-buying money to actually reach its intended destination, the performers and ..read more
Accordion Noir
1M ago
Happy May Day, comrades! Here’s an archival episode (334) from this date ten years back of our weekly alt-accordion radio program on CFRO Co-Op Community Radio! It doesn’t actually appear to have that much to do with its occasion, but it’s still a solid specimen of the genre-agnostic squeezebox programming we uniquely serve up, week ..read more
Accordion Noir
1M ago
Somehow, in our haste to rush ahead into April, we’ve wound up sharing episodes a week shy of ten years old, versus our intended strategy of sharing episodes from … as close to exactly a decade ago as possible every Monday morning. So as to serve as a spacer this week, we have another historical ..read more
Accordion Noir
1M ago
Here it is, friends, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast, where the only constant is… there’s some kind of squeezebox in every song, almost all of the time. Your host Bruce will tell you himself below that there really isn’t any theme beyond that standard criterion for ..read more