Motion Trio, from Poland

May 25, 2007 1:39 PM

The Art of the Accordion
posted by TRAJAN (9 comments total)

Some very nice stuff there. Front page is a bit of a busy mess, but the "Music online" link up top leads to the good stuff. For the impatient: Flash player, mp3 files.
posted by cortex at 2:16 PM on May 25, 2007

What's the difference between an accordion player and a terrorist?






Terrorists have sympathizers.


30 years of get together with the Italian side of family can do that to you.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 2:42 PM on May 25, 2007

Nice, thanks. While on topic, do check out Johanna Juhola.
posted by hoskala at 2:49 PM on May 25, 2007

The Trio might have been influenced by Kimmo Pohjonen too.

Motion Trio is quite "classical" in its style. It reminds me of Trio Fratres who have played for example Kraftwerk with accordions.

Also a great band from Poland with accordion is Kroke, which plays klezmer with a very intimate "chamber music" style.
posted by hoskala at 2:58 PM on May 25, 2007

A couple of those tracks bear a wonderful stylistic resemblence to portions of the X-Com soundtrack. I can think of no higher praise.
posted by cortex at 3:11 PM on May 25, 2007

And also on topic, way on topic, Guy Klucevsek is one of the greatest accordian players alive, and a helluva nice and unassuming fellow, as well.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:23 PM on May 25, 2007

They could play Philip Glass well enough.
posted by anthill at 4:40 PM on May 25, 2007

Great. Wish they were coming to Toronto.
posted by chococat at 9:15 PM on May 25, 2007

Excelsior ... I guess.
posted by Twang at 2:24 AM on May 27, 2007