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As humble as unique

Dagens Nyheter

Accordion among the hens.
Today´s musical exclusivity is a cd from Holland named " Parade des poules" (The hen parade").
It is framed by authentical hens, recorded one morning in Februari when the hens woke everybody up in the neighbourhood of the castle Sterkenburg, including the accordian playing couple Jean-Pierre Guiran and Cherie de Boer, alias "Accordéon Mélancolique".

The couple lives in a water- and castle-crowded area in Holland. Their accordion music is as humble as unique, as melodious as melancholic, as sorrowful as thrustful. It sometimes makes one think of the dense accordion theme in the film by Troell "Here is your life" //Unknown outside Sweden, no record of the music, O.S//.

They vary French musette with Argentine tango, swing, film music, gypsy romance, merengue, texmex, Italien folklore, Antillenian waltzes and compositions of their own.
The record cannot be bought in the Swedish market but it can be ordered on Internet via www.acmel.nl.

Ove Säverman, Dagens Nyheter, september 15, 2002. Sweden.

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