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    Posted: August 04 2006 at 12:52
Weird Al Yankovic has had his moments with the accordion: Smoke on the Water and Bohemian Polka,( if not played too often) will raise a smile.
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Alias Eye, an excellent prog/pop band hailing from Germany, have some great accordion  passages in their songs. Just listen to the title track of "Field of Names" and you'll see what I mean!
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2006 at 07:46
Originally posted by eugene eugene wrote:

Lars Hollmer


Just in case. Hollmer is the Accordion Prog Daddy. Also, a dip into Samla Mammas Manna, Zamla Mammaz Manna and Von Zamla (all featuring Hollmer as a main composer/performer and thus soaked with accordion) is essential.
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Points: 40 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2006 at 04:38
XANG will have in their upcoming album "The last of the lasts" a concept album about WW1.
http://www.galileo-records.com
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Points: 408 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2006 at 00:04
 
     NOBODY'S MENTIONED   P F M'S  LONG ACCORDION SOLO ON "IS MY FACE ON STRAIGHT" FROM "THE WORLD BECAME THE WORLD"?!?!?!    I DON'T REMEMBER ANY ON "COOK", BUT THERE COULD BE....   WHEN I SAW THEM LIVE ON THAT TOUR (OPENING FOR DAVE MASON), THEY DIDN'T USE ANY ACCORDION.
 
 
 
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There is accordion in the end of En pleine face from Harmonium.

RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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Points: 147 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 19:09
I don't believe anyone has mentioned Uzva yet, they have quite a bit of accordian. We need far more prog music with accordian.
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Points: 596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 15:24
Styx on Boat on the River (?)
Poços e Nuvens from Brazil has some songs with accordion too,
specially in native songs (in southern of Brazil accordion is a popular instrument)
Let the sunshine in
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The Strawbs use accordion on "Nomadness"

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Points: 1881 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 12:30
I was going to say I think Focus use it now and again, I'm sure it's used by Harmonium on one track in particular on their wonderful 5 seasons album, (sorry I forget the French title) and of course there's the wonderful "C'est La Vie", on which it creates that treu characature of France, ah yes I can smell zee onions... 
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Points: 944 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 11:30
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 07:27
There's some of it on the first RENAISSANCE's self titled debut from 1969.
 
Though not prog, JACK BRUCE also vomited sometimes though an accordion during the CREAM days. Maybe he could have just sticked to his bass. Tongue
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Points: 773 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 07:22
Originally posted by mickstafa mickstafa wrote:

Jethro Tull, especially their later stuff (typically live). A lot of Ian Anderson albums have accordian as well, including Secret Language of Birds and Rupi's Dance. The JT Christmas Album has a liberal use of the quirky instrument as well.

Anderson jokes around with Giddings on the Living with the Past DVD (I believe) about how he (Giddings) hates to play the thing, but Anderson "makes him."
 
Speaking of Jethro Tull John Evan plays some accordion on the "War Child" album. Early Fairport Convention albums also have some songs played on accordion, I think, by Ashley "Tyger" Hutchings.
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    The best accordian music in prog is Swedish Family - Vintage Prog

It's Tomas Bodin from The Flower Kings kind of...just look at the concept.

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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 05:55
Skeleton Crew and News From Babel both use accordion (played by Zeena Parkins), but it's more of a featured instrument than integral to the sound.
 
Thijs Van Leer played a bit of accordion on Hocus Pocus by Focus, but I don't recall Focus using the instrument much anywhere else.
 
John Greaves - Chansons uses accordion extensively throughout, and the excellent Songs also features it here and there.
 
Not prog, but maybe of interest: the Anouar Brahem albums Le Pas Du Chat Noir and Le Voyage De Sahar were both recorded by a piano/oud/accordion trio and are excellent. The Khomsa album also features accordion on about half the tracks. The albums are on ECM and blend North African music, jazz and something of Eno's shorter ambient pieces (think Another Green World or Music for Films).
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 05:12
Originally posted by Fassbinder Fassbinder wrote:

As far as I remember, you can hear accordion on the recent Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull records, played by Andrew Giddings.


Definitely you can - I saw Andrew Giddings play the accordion both live in Rome earlier this year and on the "Living With the Past" DVD - Ian Anderson calls it "the squeezy thing"!
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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 03:49
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Points: 1475 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 03:02
Kayak have used the instrument quite effectively a few times (e.g. See see the sun).
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Points: 3278 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 02:30
I believe Mike Oldfield uses an accordian in Amarok, bute very breifly. Other that that I can't think of anything else.
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Points: 571 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 02:03
Katzen Kapell, Kirche, Alas, Shikata Akiko etc
 
Fujino Yuka (藤野由佳) is known as an accordion player. She is a member of Rivendel also she plays in Kirche (guest member) and Shikata Akiko (support member).
 
Katzen Kapell is a Swedish band. Lead vocalist is female and she plays the accordion.
 
Alas's new album includes accordion in many parts.
 
If you are interested in Piazzola, some of his albums taste progressve rock. Try his music !
 
Demi Semi Quaver's vocalist Emi Eleonola is also known as an accordion player. However their music is not always put into progressive rock. Early Demi Semi Quaver is better for me.
 
Quikion is already mentioned on this thread.
 
U~~~M, if I try to search my collection, there are probably more other bands. But I can suggest only these bands / artist, now.
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