Accordeon-Samba

[donn]

As I think Ganza was saying, Tico Tico is a choro tune, and that has been working for the accordion since the beginning. Whether samba is hard on accordion or not I don't know - I'm not always sure exactly what samba is - but as far as I know the accordion has not been very popular there, unlike choro and even more in NE Brazil music like forró.

 

[Ganza]

As I think Ganza was saying, Tico Tico is a choro tune, and that has been working for the accordion since the beginning. Whether samba is hard on accordion or not I dont know - Im not always sure exactly what samba is - but as far as I know the accordion has not been very popular there, unlike choro and even more in NE Brazil music like forró.

This is the most common form of samba (although there is also a very poppy version as well):


The singer is singing about importing product from Bogota, Colombia ;-)

Then there is also the samba played during carnaval. In this clip you can hear how beautiful the melodies can be when they arent playing with all the drums, dancers and at a hundred miles an hour!:

 

[Ganza]

Sorry, I got the second link wrong. This is the example of carnaval samba, played at a slower pace:


I think either style would be difficult or perhaps impossible to play on accordion. Ive never seen any Brazilian accordionists doing these 2 types of samba on YouTube or anywhere else....

 

[donn]

Sure, the instruments are just about pure percussion - I see the cavaquinho is stuffed with a cloth to keep the little thing from resonating too much! It was interesting to see that the 7-string guitar is still in business - theres an instrument that must have influenced the evolution of the music.

Anyway ... samba on accordion ... would Sandro do Acordeon no samba de abdias dos 8 baixos qualify? The comment calls it forró estilo nordestino, but it sounds like an old school samba to me, with some NE harmonic influence. Same performer has one or two slightly more modern samba examples, but by that I guess I may only mean 50s instead of 30s.