@catsalad
Pirates never played accordions
🏴‍☠️🚫🪗

(Because they hadn’t been invented yet)

Accordions were invented during the 1800s Industrial Revolution at the same time as the telegraph, steam engine and the typewriter

100 years after the Golden Age of Piracy 1600s–1700s

So every pirate movie with an accordionist is a science fiction movie with a time-travel sub plot 🚀⌛️

@sellathechemist @catsalad
Alan Lomax went to Europe in the 1950s to escape the McCarthy era

And he seems to have come back with a deep hatred of the Accordion

He called it a “pestiferous instrument”

And seemed to apply a generic filter based on the fact that it had chased around fiddle and bagpipe traditions in many parts of Europe

Not unearned. But not helpful

@sellathechemist @catsalad
I didn’t know there was a box set of all #Piazzolla’s recordings?

I read one of his biographies, and talked to somebody who dealt with some of his manuscripts

It sounded like he just compulsively composed (for the money)

Discarding pieces like a Oblivion without intending to record them well for posterity

(They had to twist his arm on that one)

My acquaintance made it sound like there was so much material no one could ever deal with it
#tango #bandoneon

@AccordionBruce @catsalad

Voilà

@sellathechemist @catsalad
Signed too ✍🏼

Wonder how much it overlaps with this ten CD set of his I found on one particularly good 🪗 record shopping day?

This matching historical #tango set may have been near some French musette compilations too

Lots of #accordion to add to the @accordionnoir playlists that day

@sellathechemist @catsalad @accordionnoir
Now seeing the small print on the side of your picture it looks like they might cover similar ground?

There’s a bunch of other records though. Those don’t include the later Mute ones like Tango Zero Hour and Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night that brought him to the ‘90s 🪗 revivalists like me

(I think those fed into the 12 monkeys soundtrack)

I just heard of a Central Park Concert one that’s supposed to be great