The guitarist is in Magma now
Guy Klucevsek's solo cd "Transylvanian Software" is wonderful.I wish there was a clip i could play from it.I highly recommend it.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Five pages in and no jokes about the only way to make an accordion hot is to set it on fire (other than a Larsen cartoon), shame on you PE.
Somebody mentioned the Cunningham brothers, sadly Johnny (violin) passed away in 2003 but Phil is still going strong in partnership with ace Shetland fiddler Aly Bain.
Track from a really good recent album by Harri Kuusijarvi's accordion power trio:
He's one of the great ones on the instrument, especially when he 'rocks out' a bit.
I only recently got the vinyl of Orpheus Ascending, the breakthrough release of Ivo Papasov & His Wedding Band (Bulgaria) produced by none other than Joe Boyd in 1989, and this smokes! Neighbours aren't crazy about it, tho'.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Mario Batkovic draws a lot of people to his concerts doing solo accordion performances.
Interesting stuff; very Philip Glass influenced.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
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