Jo Basile (also known as Joss Baselli) was one of France’s most popular accordionists in the 1950s and 60s. Rising to fame as the principal accompanist to French chanteuse Patachou, Basile later put out his own records as well. Some were formulaic (Rome with Love, Rio with Love… I think you’re getting the picture), but others (like his album with Brazilian jazz legends Bossa Tres) show what a virtuoso he really was.
Accordeon 2000 was a departure for Basile — an album full of futuristic originals with bizarre titles like “Pas de Camembert sur la Lune” and “Galaxie Valse.” Recorded with an electronic Cavagnolo Majorvox accordion, the resulting sound is far more like an organ than accordion, and helps creates a groovy, spaced-out vibe. Picture yourself in a flying car while listening to this track from Accordeon 2000:
Missile a Domicile (MP3 download)
[Found via Whoops]
4 Comments:
Great stuff. I followed the links too, but for some reason I can’t download stuff from rapidshare. :(
by Squeezyboy on July 3rd, 2006
Worked fine for me: clicked “free”, waited about 50 seconds for the countdown to finish, typed in the coded word, clicked “download from…”, and waited 12 minutes or so for the 61.5 MB file to download.
by Ian on July 9th, 2006
What a surprise that the electronic Majorvox accordion sounds NOTHING like an accordian! Read that it was invented in 1965, and it was the first electronic accordion with transistors. What does it look like? Has anyone ever seen one of these things? Interesting.
by Katya Oddio on August 1st, 2006
This page has some info about the history of Cavognolo accordions and includes some photos. That’s all I could find, though.
by Chris on August 3rd, 2006