Le Canal en Octobre

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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