accordions, bandoneons, bayans, concertinas, cordovoxes, flutinas (that weird little proto-accordion - two boards with a bellows between them and just a few buttons. Pay for yours as an antique on Ebay today!), garmons, livenkas, melodeons, squeezeboxes, trikitixas, and free-bass chromatic button accordions plugged through vintage electic guitar effects built into a plastic Fisher-Price Piano salvaged from a dumpster. Aren't those interesting?
Pauliina Lerche , Play Bayan! , Iva Nova , Arcade Fire , Annie Proulx , the Decemberists , Guy Klucevsek , Maria Kalaniemi and rest of the Accordion Tribe , Martin White , and Kimmo Pohjonen from Finland who's crazy. And all the amazing players and people on our friends list. We're your fans. ... Please pardon us if we unjustly turn down your friends request -- without a squeezebox in the profile picture it can be difficult to distinguish an incognito accordion fan from a generic anybody looking to inflate their friends count. If we have shunned you in error (after diligently combing your profile for any mention of the instrument in your interests or comments), please feel free to write back and we'll friend YOU!
ceilidh, klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco; Lady of Spain , Tico Tico, Carnival of Venice; Bachelorette (Bjork), the Boy in the Bubble (Paul Simon), Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam (Nirvana), (Mama's Got a) Squeezebox (the Who), Punk Rock Girl (Dead Milkmen), Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads).
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995), Accordéon (2004), The Accordion (Nic Caldoni, 2005), Accordion Joe (1929), Accordion Tribe (2004 -- have you seen this? I so want to. Well, I want to see them live, but), El Acordeón del diablo (2000), El Alma de bandoneón (The Soul of the Bandoneon, 1935), The Biography of a Young Accordion Player (1995), Chamamé (2007), Chelovek s akkordeonom (Man with an Accordion, 1985), Crna macka, beli macor (Black Cat White Cat, Emir Kusturica, 1998), The Dark Backward (1991), Dark City (1997), le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001), Garmon (1934), General Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), the Godfather (1972), Harmonika (1937), Hundra Dragspel och en Flicka (A Hundred Accordions and a Girl, 1946), In Heaven There is No Beer? (1984), It's Happiness: a Polka Documentary (2005, this looks really fun), J'ai Ete' Au Bal (I Went to the Dance, 1989), Kornblumenblau (1988), The Last Polka (1985), Nogent - Eldorado du dimanche (1929), On the Road with Ellery Eskelin with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black (2004) , Il Postino (1994), The Princess Comes Across (1936), Schultze Gets the Blues (2003), the Searchers (1956), Some Like It Hot (1959), Sous les toits de Paris (1930), Squeezing the Most Out of Life : a Portrait of Newfoundland's First Lady of The Accordion (1995), A Star Is Born (1954), Tango Bar (1988), the Tango Lesson (Sally Potter, 1997), Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003), True Stories (1986), Waking Life (2001), and, well, everything on this list .
My squeezebox is the only box I need.
Accordion (a poem by Robert Service), Accordion Crimes (Annie E. Proulx), Accordion Repairs Made Easy: How to Fix Any Part of Any Accordion (by John Reuther), The Art of Bayan Playing: Technique, Interpretation and Performance of Playing the Accordion Artistically (by Friedrich Lip), The Book of Klezmer: the History, the Music, the Folklore (by Yale Strom), Considering the Accordion (Al Zolynas, Under Ideal Conditions, 1994), Dick Contino's Blues (James Ellroy), The Green Hills of Earth (Robert Heinlein), How to Be An Accordion Player (Geoff Berner), How to Play Free Bassetti System Accordion (by Flavio Fogli and Frank Gaviani), Magnifico (by Victoria Miles) accordion for Harry Potter readers, or a little older like me. Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas (Elijah Wald), A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood (Mark Twain), the FABULOUS Pretty Complete Guide to Squeezeboxes (Wendy Morrison), Le Grand Tango : the Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla (MarÃa Susana Azzi.) Go nuts for Piazzolla here, includes: "200 versions of "Adios Nonino." (If every web-resource was this good, I fear I'd never leave my room.) (And then there is amateur Accordion Poetry ... and of course rec.music.makers.squeezebox )
Dick Contino , Walter Ostanek , Lawrence Welk , Frankie Yankovic , Alice Hall (who played with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in the 50's, but is almost entirely unrecorded!), Astor Piazzolla , Esteban “Steve†Jordan , "Weird Al" Yankovic , They Might Be Giants , Miss Murgatroid , I Mudder Accordion, Ana Bon-Bon , Geoff Berner , the dissapeared Klezmorim of Eastern Europe and those who carry on their living tradition.