Bring the buttons and keys to life
Distinctive music, distinctive dances, a distinctive landscape. I’ve never been to Ireland, yet as it happens, my idea of the country is very clear. Apart from the beer and the sheep on the emerald-green background, there’s this damp and drizzly weather all the time, so the musicians have to play very, very swiftly and the dancers have to jump very, very high to warm themselves, at least for a while.
A true Accordionist wouldn’t always want to play all those rather worn-out songs, would they? To grant the wishes of those harder-to-please, we have something special for you today, real „icing on the cake“.
Four compositions inspired by the music of French Brittany. You can listen to the arranged versions of these pieces on the albums and at the concerts of his music group Bran. The recordings available here were recorded by Tomáš for instructional purposes.
Romany music is beautiful, vigorous and full of unusual harmonies and approaches. Being handed over from one musician to another, in this respect it resembles folk tales, because Romany musicians don’t need any scores, they live and feel their music. It is therefore difficult to write it down, but – together with Mario Bihári – we can at least peep into it.
If you are a Czech lover of accordion music, and all the more if you’re learning how to play it, surely you would know Radůza. However, searching for her songs yields usually only lyrics with chord names. I therefore transcribed several of her songs into scores, with her consent.