@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

@sellathechemist @catsalad @accordionnoir
I cannot claim to be at all familiar with Piazzolla’s work, despite the fact that I have a bunch of his recordings

Only enough to be aware of how much there is of it, and to be a bit frustrated that the only pieces you generally hear performed are Libertango and Oblivion

As a result of that we don’t get introduced to any of the many hundreds of his other compositions that are available to be enjoyed

A bit sad I think

@sellathechemist @catsalad @accordionnoir
What a wonderful article! 🥰

“The bandoneon entered #tango out of necessity. Typical tango instruments were the violin, flute and guitar – they made the music agile, not only through fast tempos, but also so that it could be quickly hidden away in case of a police raid on the brothels

#Bandoneón replaced the flute and piano replaced the guitar – instruments that could fill a dance hall full of people talking, drinking or arguing without amplification