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accordion

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 11:49:17 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Music featuring the accordion as a prominent or defining instrument, instantly recognizable by its bellows-driven sound that can range from melancholic and nostalgic to upbeat and festive. The accordion appears across diverse cultural contexts, from French café music and Latin American styles to folk traditions and experimental compositions. Its distinctive reedy timbre and ability to sustain notes while providing both melody and harmony make it versatile across genres from intimate solo pieces to energetic ensemble performances.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
72		1965	Clifton Chenier	Louisiana Blues And Zydeco	accordion blues cajun louisiana zydeco	louisiana # 86 cajun # 90 zydeco # 93
9		1966	Frankie Yankovic	Songs of the Polka King, Vol. 1
4		1972	Tony MacMahon	Traditional Irish Accordion	accordion folk ireland irish folk	ireland # 14
36		1972	Various Artists	Italian Hits Of The 60's	accordion
62		1977	Various Artists	Rue des chansons	accordion acoustic chanson folk french traditional
92		1980	Dominguinhos	Quem me levará sou eu	accordion
84		1985	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III		harmonica # 82 slide guitar # 86
73		1985	Talking Heads	Road to nowhere	accordion new wave pop rock
3		1986	Talking Heads	Radio Head	accordion new wave
25		1987	Oingo Boingo	Boi-Ngo	new wave
24		1988	The Dead Milkmen	Punk Rock Girl	accordion pop punk punk rock
98		1988-09-26	Oingo Boingo	Boingo Alive	accordion art punk art rock new wave punk rock ska ska punk	art punk # 20
44		1990	Appellation Contrôlée	Appellation Contrôlée	accordion
85		1991	Guy Klucevsek	Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse	accordion instrumental jazz
28		1991-07-01	Paolo Conte	The Collection	accordion italian jazz male vocalists oldies piano singer-songwriter
26		1991-11-05	Richard Galliano	Spleen	accordion jazz
10		1992	Louisiana Radio	Playwolf	accordion cajun zydeco	zydeco # 7
56		1992-02-03	They Might Be Giants	The Statue Got Me High	accordion alternative alternative rock
91		1993	Księżyc	Nów	accordion ambient folk noir apocalyptic folk folk noir neoclassical neofolk	apocalyptic folk # 33 folk noir # 69 ambient folk noir # 100
90		1993	Richard Galliano	Viaggio	accordion jazz
5		1994	Louisiana Radio	Wulf [Laiv]	accordion cajun zydeco	zydeco # 1
70		1994	Les Négresses Vertes	Zig Zague	accordion alternative rock french mediterranean rock	mediterranean # 91
96		1995	Erik Satie	Erik Satie - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
89		1996-04-16	Oingo Boingo	Farewell: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre-Halloween 1995	accordion art punk art rock new wave
99		1997	Julieta Venegas	Aquí	accordion
31		1998-09-09	Kepa Junkera	Bilbao 00:00h	accordion
23		1999	Astor Piazzolla	Tango Piazolla	accordion
37		1999	Renaud Garcia-Fons & Jean-Louis Matinier	Fuera	accordion bass instrumental
97		1999	Kimmo Pohjonen	Kielo	accordion electronica
69		1999-06-01	Jason Webley	Against the Night	folk
30		2000	Jean Blanchard	Accordéon Diatonique	accordion folk
45		2001	A Qui Avec Gabriel	Utsuho	accordion
74		2001	Motion Trio	Play-Station	accordion
78		2001	Motion Trio	Play Station	accordion
87		2001-04-09	Yann Tiersen	L'absente	french	french # 59
20		2001-10-03	Dominique Barret	Po ou mam'zel	accordion romance
86		2002	Soledad	Soledad	accordion belgian instrumental tango argentino	belgian # 51 tango argentino # 89
50		2002	The World Players	The World Of French Café Music	accordion french
100		2002	The Devil Makes Three	The Devil Makes Three	accordion folk
82		2002-02-04	Kimmo Pohjonen	Kluster	avant-folk	avant-folk # 37
95		2004	Cafe Accordion Orchestra	Le Disque Francais	accordion
1		2004-05-11	Kitten On The Keys	(it's Not A) Pretty Princess Day	accordion dark cabaret piano ukulele	ukulele # 39
55		2005	Vic Sadot	Broadsides & Retrospectives	accordion americana blues blues rock electric guitar folk rock protest rock roots singer-songwriter soul spiritual	protest # 78 electric guitar # 78
94		2005	The World/Inferno Friendship Society	Me V. Angry Mob - EP	accordion art punk art rock cabaret dark cabaret punk rock	cabaret # 28 dark cabaret # 29
14		2005	Ralf Weihrauch	Not The Bleeding Obvious	accordion
39		2005-03	Marseille Figs	Boum Boum Constant (New Demos &c. 2005)	accordion americana bluegrass honky tonk post-punk
93		2005-05-02	The World/Inferno Friendship Society	Me V. Angry Mob	accordion art punk art rock cabaret dark cabaret punk rock	cabaret # 29 dark cabaret # 30
38		2005-05	Amarcord Wien	Satie	accordion
67		2005-06-07	Madagascar	Forced March	accordion
13		2006	Elephant Island	Monument	accordion folk indie pop indie rock
88		2006-04-17	DAAU	Domestic Wildlife	accordion bass folk jazz jazz bass jazz fusion klezmer meditation progressive rock rock	klezmer # 53 jazz bass # 94
58		2007	Muammer Ketencoğlu	Izmir Hatırası	accordion oriental world	oriental # 50
6		2007	Dieter Weberpals & Argile	Filefola - The Flute Album	flute world
68		2007-05-21	Kitten On The Keys	Salty Meat Girl Kitten on the Keys	accordion dark cabaret piano ukulele	ukulele # 80
60		2007-10-15	Didier Laloy	[Pô-Z]S	accordion folk
61		2007-12-18	Julieta Venegas	Realmente Lo Mejor	folk rock alternative alternative pop
40		2008	Megitza Quartet	Boleritza	accordion acoustic alternative polish serbian	serbian # 40
77		2008	The Tango Saloon	Transylvania	accordion ambient bass clarinet electronic piano progressive rock rock tango trombone	trombone # 87 clarinet # 88
47		2008	Lars Hollmer	Accordion Tribe	accordion swedish
81		2008-09	Wendy McNeill	A Dreamers Guide To Hardcore Living	accordion folk
49		2009	STriCat	Jab	accordion alternative balkan bebop contemporary jazz dutch folk fusion gypsy instrumental jazz nederlands romania romanian swing world	romanian # 44 nederlands # 57 romania # 70
11		2009	Digital_Me	The Accordion E.P.	accordion electronic
27		2009	Colour Dreams	Demo	accordion folk instrumental post-rock
52		2009-07-16	what capitalism was	plays philip glass on accordion	accordion
80		2010	Random Encounter	Random Encounter	accordion instrumental rock nintendocore rock	nintendocore # 46
15		2010	KV Express	D-Sensation	accordion bass belgian composer folk instrumental
46		2011	C.J. Chenier	Can't Sit Down	accordion blues cajun louisiana new orleans singer-songwriter world zydeco	cajun # 56 louisiana # 59 zydeco # 63
54		2011	Strydwolf	Dunkle Wälder	accordion neofolk
76		2011-02-27	Random Encounter	Unavenged	accordion nintendocore progressive rock	nintendocore # 44
32		2011-05-31	Colour Dreams	Иллюзия тишины	accordion folk instrumental post-rock
83		2011-09-22	Oskar Schuster	Dear Utopia	accordion chanson soundtrack
17		2012	Random Encounter	72 Hours in the Ocean With Your Mother	accordion
79		2012-06-18	Louie Zong	yoshologie	accordion soundtrack
59		2012-12-17	Dropkick Murphys	I'm Shipping up to Boston	accordion celtic punk folk punk punk rock	celtic punk # 30
75		2013	Random Encounter	Let Me Tell You a Story	accordion nintendocore progressive rock rock	nintendocore # 43
48		2016-05-01	Фёдор Чистяков	Без дураков	accordion russian rock
35		2016-10-28	Richard Galliano	New Musette	accordion
8		2019-10-04	Daniel Michael	Project 52 Songs	folk indie pop	ukulele # 47
57		2020-07-28	insaneintherainmusic	Layton's Theme (From "Professor Layton and the Curious Village")	accordion jazz
66		2022-11-11	Gogol Bordello	Super Taranta! (15 Year Anniversary Edition)	accordion folk punk punk rock
16		2023	Oingo Boingo	Boingo Alive - Celebration of a Decade 1978-1988	accordion art punk art rock new wave punk rock ska ska punk
21		2023-09	insaneintherainmusic	Gangplank Galleon (From "Donkey Kong Country")	accordion jazz
19			XDarawish	Una Ratsa mia fatsa	accordion balkan mediterranean pop italiano	pop italiano # 14 mediterranean # 79
22			Camera Sintetica	AN-Ki	accordion arabic bulgarian choir ethnic italian jazz jewish klezmer persian world	choir # 4 bulgarian # 52
53			Camera Sintetica	Venetia	accordion acoustic choir dance ethnic hammond italian jewish klezmer latin organ reggae samba world	jewish # 8 organ # 18 choir # 38 hammond # 45
64			Camera Sintetica	New Releases	accordion chamber classical soundtrack	chamber # 87
71			Panic! at the Disco	Build God, Then We'll Talk		baroque # 97
2			Mellow Dramatic Avenue	Blue morning - the accordion project	accordion
7			СадЪ (The Garden)	Паутинка в небо (Web To The Sky)	accordion belarus folk rock
12			mishap Crew	Pope john paul the third!!!	accordion experimental hip hop parody
18			Christian Hanke	Number one	accordion
29			Mehrdad Mehdi	Dornadeon	accordion classical instrumental iran iranian jazz persian world
33			Yuri Medianik	Images of Three Centuries	accordion
34			Meat Pig	The Several Pants of Meat Pig	accordion folk
41			IceSixxx	MeKaNiKaLZ	accordion acoustic guitar ambient ebm electro electronic electronica industrial instrumental latin latino tango techno
42			小松亮太 × チャーリー・コーセイ	下弦の月	accordion asian pop j-pop japanese
43			Duckmandu	Fresh Duck for Rotting Accordianists	accordion alternative
51			Patrice PEYRIERAS & Sébastien FARGE	SORTILEGE	accordion
65			Patty Furlong	Traditional Irish Music on Button Accordion	accordion celtic folk irish
			The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	folk
63			Panic! at the Disco	Build God, Then We'll Talk - Single

Related genres

• folk
• instrumental
• acoustic
• jazz
• piano
• world
• rock
• classical
• bass
• italian