D'Ase/ Laketic - D'ase Liszt Haydn & SchoenbeThe accordion has long had a reputation as an instrument for folk music and of street musicians. It's technical and cultural evolution can be neatly traced from it's very invention in 1829 by Cyrill Demian in his apartment on Vienna's Mariahilfer Strae, No. 43, to this day. The accordionist Bogdan Laketic, who lives in Vienna, dedicates his debut album "Made in Vienna" to this, "his" city, choosing works by composers who are also directly connected

" Peaceful alien beings called Axons land on Earth in search of aid

but the words just came

and renegade Aikido master Sakura (Eiji Go)

Now in 2018

"This album reflects those sensations

Composed for piano four-hands

devilish intrigue

the third album from the Welsh popsters

and when the chance came along to join the Civil Rights Movement and become a Freedom Rider

from which the three Viennese dances Liebesleid

" Chouchane Siranossian

where swaying melodies mingle with heady basses