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• Artist: Accordion Noir
• Title: AccNoir-2010-04-23, Jew's Harp Noir
• Album: Jew's Harp Special
• Year: 2010
• Length: 65:22 minutes (59.84 MB)
• Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

AccNoir-2010-04-23, Jew's Harp Noir!

*Artist – Song – Album (year) – Where are they from? – Contact info if we've got it.
* Andy Fielding – Accordion Noir theme (short version, 1:06) – Accordion Noir (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – recorded special just for our show!
* Buffy Sainte-Marie (with Pete Seeger) – Demonstrates the Mouth Bow (youtube) – Podcast-exclusive! (We didn't have time for this one on the radio-show.) – http://www.creative-native.com/
* The Who – Join Together – The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2] (1972) – England
* 17 Hippies – The Moving Song – Heimlich (2007) – Berlin, Germany – jaw harp! Isn't this a Beatles' song? That weird George Harrison one off Sgt. Pepper? (Within You Without You.) – http://www.17hippies.de
* Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain – Devant Ta Porte/Mamou Two Step – The Pearl (1994) – Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom – http://www.philcunningham.com/
* Little Tongue Vibration Orchestra – dandja lele – A Preview (Little Tongue Vibration Orchestra) (0) – Taucha (near Leipzig), Germany – http://www.danmoi.de/
* Alec K. Redfearn And The Eyesores – The Perforated Veil – The Blind Spot (2007) – Providence, Rhode Island, USA (Home of HP Lovecraft!) – http://www.aleckredfearn.com/information.html Electric Jaw Harp!
* The Troggs – The Raver – The Singles As & Bs [Disc 2] (1970) – England –
* Vagabonds De Montreal – Reel De Berthier – Squeeze Play-World Accordion (1928) – Plattsburgh, NY, USA, French Canadian – www.rounderstore.com/ product.asp?P=1166110902 Jawharp!
* La Bottine Souriante – Arin Quebec (Arin Quebec) – Rock & Reel (1998) – Montreal, Québec, Canada – Denis Fréchette, accordeon piano, Yves Lambert, accordeon 3 rangees http://bottinesouriante.com/
* Os Mutantes – Nada Mudou – Haih Or Amortecedor (2009) – Brasil –
* Monty Python – Bruces – Matching Tie & Handkerchief (1973) – Britain –
* Circus Contraption – Drunkard's Dream – Grand American Traveling Dime Museum (2005) – Seattle, Washington, USA – www.circuscontraption.com
* Harvey Matusow's Jew's Harp Band – Clootch Hunt – The War Between Fats and Thins (1969) – USA? – http://playitagainmax.blogspot.com/2006/06/harvey-matusows-jews-harp-band-war.html http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/07/harvey_matusow_.html
* Maans, Kalaniemi, Varis – Grotthälsning – I Ramunders Fotspar (2000) – Finland –
* Dsd (Derrick Stacey Denholm) – Ootsa Toboggan Smash – Norsk Drag (2006) – Prince George, BC, Canada – jaw harp
* Hamster Theatre – The Turn Of Events – Carnival Detournement (2001) – Boulder, Colorado, United States – http://www.generalrubric.com/hamster/splash3.html
* The Beatles – The Foolish On The Hill – Magical Mystery Tour (1967) – England
* Vladiswar Nadishana – Dan Moi Set – Innovative Jew's Harp (2007) – South Siberia, Russia / Berlin, Germany – www.nadishana.com
* Johann Georg Albrechstberger (teacher of Ludvig von Beethoven) – Concerto for Jew's Harp and Mandora (a lute thing), 1st & 2nd Movements – http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/12/orchestral_jews.html
* Snoopy! – Snoopy (and Woodstock) Come Home – Snoopy Come Home (1972) – USA – youtube-a-rama (because the dvd we got was too scratchy)
* Fred Penner – Fred Penner's Place closing theme (1987) – youtube – (he's a Canadian childhood icon, for those of us who didn't know.)
* Dyad – Hickory Jack (another podcast bonus we didn't have time for, a show closer that never happened, until now) – No Pedlars Or Preachers (2006) – British Columbia, Canada – http://www.myspace.com/dyad3

This episode's cover is, a Jew's Harp from Altai "Khomus," in a custom decorated wooden box. Neato! from the Nadishana catalog, below: http://shop.nadishana.com

Much more on Jew's Harps:
* Wiki/jew's_harp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew's_harp
* Jew's Harp Guild (US): http://www.jewsharpguild.org/
* Nomenclature (1130 global names for the jew's harp/jaw harp/trump/"thought scatterer."): http://www.antropodium.nl/Duizend%20Namen%20Mhp%20NOMENCLATUUR.htm

Get your harp on!
• From Berlin (see the Little Tongue Vibration Orchestra on our playlist, above) "The largest collection of jew's harps for sale in the world," pick your favourite continent: http://www.danmoi.de
* More nice harps from the States: http://www.mouthmusic.com/trumps.htm
* From Siberia/Berlin, the most stylish site award goes to Vladiswar Nadishana (who played the really cool piece near the end of our show. Check out his videos, wow: http://nadishana.com/Rus/InstrumentsJawharpsEng.htm

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