Bruce is getting a little postmodern with these programs: he has taken an episode of our program first aired a bit over eighteen years ago, located all of the songs included in it in his music collection, and has offset every song by one in the sequence of his overall collection. Why? You can’t interrogate […]

If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for the Fall membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of […]

War: what is it good for? If I told you “great accordion music”, you wouldn’t believe me, but now you don’t have to. Either way, I’d happily do away with accordion in a heartbeat if it also brought an end to war, but sadly it doesn’t work that way. In any case, Bruce found himself […]

Bruce has… a lot of accordion music. He has so much of it that if he so cared to, he could just cruise by the “B” section of his alphabetised song library, and come up with an entire episode of our program simply by selecting a consecutive subset of all the songs in his collection […]

Long time coming gathering works for another episode of drone, experimental and noisy squeezebox to stretch your listening ears! This is a fine set of tones indeed as we did four years in the past five now. And we hope to continue the tradition if we can keep gathering enough material: If you know any […]

NOTE SPECIAL EARLY SHOW NEXT WEEK: WED. OCT 29, 9 PM-MID.Accordion Noir: Squeeze into the Long Nights: Drone & Experimental AccordionShould just roll out on your podcast as an extra-long 3-hour episode.Starting Co-op Radio’s Fall Member Drive a few days early. THIS WEEK’S SHOW features a remix of a seasonal interview with noted sonic scholar […]

Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly Italian tunes. (With a few “Romantic” ones by Canadians because that seemed enough of a connector.) As mentioned, this week’s first track is from […]

(That’s the half-an-accordion in the title.) I don’t believe that last night’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has an underlying theme beyond “varied squeezebox music”, and I think that if you asked its programmer Bruce he’d say the same thing, so all I can tell you is: enjoy an hour of free […]

Here we go again! When live music venues shut down at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, we stepped up looking for ways to financially support our favorite (squeezebox) musicians deprived of performance income — and Bandcamp’s “we waive our cut of the revenues” Bandcamp Fridays made them the most efficient way to take money […]

Relax, everybody! The world, well, the world is still in turmoil but at least we can testify that it is full of accordion music, and if you can take a moment to listen to some of it you might have a chance to enjoy a moment of cosmic connection and unity with your fellow humanity, […]