billy noom - guitar and piano
brandon collins- cello
lisa dembling- accordion and toy piano
kassia - violin
jeremy - percussion
Influences
balkan music
turn of the century klezmer
ragtime
classical music
doom metal
old-time circus music
__specifics: deadman street orchestra, tom waits,dandelion junk queens,
below the salt, inkwell rythym makers, taraf de haidouks, vulgar
bulgars,godspeed you black emperor, explosions in the sky, django
reinhardt, kurt weill, gogol bordello, franz schmidt,
beethoven, eric satie, black ox orchestar, gogan
bregovitch, apocalyptica,flux of pink indians, crass, the macabre
circus
band
Sounds Like
music to drink rusty red wine from a broken bottle on the railroad tracks with
or
cicadas in an orchestra pit
We come from Ratsylvania, where we would dance, play music, fight,
strip
off all our clothes, blacksmith, and generally carry on without work of
a
mundane sort. A few of us decided to venture away from our past haven
and
found ourselves traveling dusty freight cars through a strange
God-soaked
place called the U.$.A..
About the music: Some of it we find at campfires when we travel around,
some we buy on the black market in exchange for moonshine, some we
discover in our dreams about life back in Ratsylvania.
featuring kayoko masuda (voice), andreas geyer (bass clarinet) and others total playing time: 73 minutes comes as a factory-made cd with eight-page booklet
Hey Accordion Death Squad, Are you all gona be in C-ville the 14th and 15th of August to play a show for The Petrol Free Gypsy Carnival Tour? We are riding bicycles from Harrisonburg to VA Beach and stopping to play music in every city along the way to promote petrol-free travel.
We are in the process of booking a show at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative.
would you all be interested? email me at Nicholas.Melas@gmail.com
I know this is a random question, but based on your name and the fact that one of you plays accordion I was wondering if you could tell me: Is there anyone in the Lynchburg area that you know of that could teach me to play accordion?
YOu'd like Benka Borodovsky Bordello Band - look them up on MySpace (from NZ) currently in Berlin!! I jammed with them last new year - on THEIR accordion!!
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