Perhaps one of the more beautiful accordion videos on YouTube, even with the sub-pristine recording quality. Below is Dominique Rivière playing a Frédéric Paris tune, “Le Canal en Octobre,” from Paris’ CD Rue de l’Oiseau.
Rivière is playing a chromatic button accordion, different from the type I play. It’s unisonorous, meaning that you get the same pitch on a button whether you’re pushing or pulling the bellows. This is as opposed to bisonorous, typical of diatonic accordions like mine, where you get a different pitch depending on the bellows direction.* Rivière is a versatile musician, with his finger-style guitar and bouzouki work being just as intriguing as his accordion playing.
*Trust me, accordion geeks found those two previous sentences very meaningful.
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What a beautiful rendition of the tune. I enjoy the fact that while he “de-melodeonized” the tune, he gives it a different sense of breathing based on his own instrument.
One of my favorite tunes — I've been working on playing it! (Along with its “twin.”)
-Andy
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It's twin?
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One of my favourite tunes Gary.
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This video had me considering a CBA in a very serious way. It is seductive.
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