Will Holzhauser

Sure. That sounds great.

Sure. That sounds great.

Sure. That sounds great.

Oh, I was just making sure that I had the right register on. Okay. Because you can, depending on which register you have, you can get, you know, in a different octave. Each one has a sort of different sound or different flavor.

Oh, I was just making sure that I had the right register on. Okay. Because you can, depending on which register you have, you can get, you know, in a different octave. Each one has a sort of different sound or different flavor.

Oh, I was just making sure that I had the right register on. Okay. Because you can, depending on which register you have, you can get, you know, in a different octave. Each one has a sort of different sound or different flavor.

All right. This is Swing Vals, written by Baro Ferre and Gus Visser. ¦

All right. This is Swing Vals, written by Baro Ferre and Gus Visser. ¦

All right. This is Swing Vals, written by Baro Ferre and Gus Visser. ¦

Through reissues that came out in the 1990s. There's a great label in France called Fremaux and Associates. So I heard them and I was struck by this music and kind of blown away by how do they get these sounds out of the accordion? And Matt Munisseri, my friend, felt the same way. And that's sort of how we started playing together. We were both interested in French musette.

Through reissues that came out in the 1990s. There's a great label in France called Fremaux and Associates. So I heard them and I was struck by this music and kind of blown away by how do they get these sounds out of the accordion? And Matt Munisseri, my friend, felt the same way. And that's sort of how we started playing together. We were both interested in French musette.

Through reissues that came out in the 1990s. There's a great label in France called Fremaux and Associates. So I heard them and I was struck by this music and kind of blown away by how do they get these sounds out of the accordion? And Matt Munisseri, my friend, felt the same way. And that's sort of how we started playing together. We were both interested in French musette.

And it's so expressive, virtuosic. It's an unusual type of – some of these tunes, especially swing-valse, are hybrids of jazz and French music. So when some of these French musette musicians – fell in love with jazz in the 20s and 30s, they began to write these hybrid tunes that were, and hence the name, Swing Vals, inspired by the American records that they were crazy about.

And it's so expressive, virtuosic. It's an unusual type of – some of these tunes, especially swing-valse, are hybrids of jazz and French music. So when some of these French musette musicians – fell in love with jazz in the 20s and 30s, they began to write these hybrid tunes that were, and hence the name, Swing Vals, inspired by the American records that they were crazy about.

And it's so expressive, virtuosic. It's an unusual type of – some of these tunes, especially swing-valse, are hybrids of jazz and French music. So when some of these French musette musicians – fell in love with jazz in the 20s and 30s, they began to write these hybrid tunes that were, and hence the name, Swing Vals, inspired by the American records that they were crazy about.

It's true. And especially dissonance on the accordion, playing notes very close together can bring out those overtones. And there is a whole range of effects you can get.

It's true. And especially dissonance on the accordion, playing notes very close together can bring out those overtones. And there is a whole range of effects you can get.

It's true. And especially dissonance on the accordion, playing notes very close together can bring out those overtones. And there is a whole range of effects you can get.

All right. Well, here's some very high notes with special overtones. If you shake the bellows, you can make it shimmer like that. You can do these bending notes like I showed you before. There's sort of nice clusters you can get. I'm letting her hand flop around on the keyboard like a fish. There's rhythmic things you can do with the bellows.

All right. Well, here's some very high notes with special overtones. If you shake the bellows, you can make it shimmer like that. You can do these bending notes like I showed you before. There's sort of nice clusters you can get. I'm letting her hand flop around on the keyboard like a fish. There's rhythmic things you can do with the bellows.