Song Recommendation: “Kaunis” by Anis Kiitu
I watch TikTok the way God intended: having my spouse curate the best ones and show them to me as I fall asleep in bed. One that surfaced recently features a bemused person overhearing a conversation where someone earnestly asks those around him: “Betcha didn’t know accordions could rock like that, huh?”
And yeah, that’s a pretty funny sentence to capture. The accordion is such an inherently funny-looking instrument— all clicky buttons and heaving bellows— and one that’s so often associated with levity. It can be easy to forget how versatile the instrument is, even when it still sounds exactly like itself. Take “Kaunis” from Finnish folk-rock group Anis Kittu’s album Kaihola, released earlier this year. The accordion is woven throughout the record but stands mostly solo on this track, complemented only by a plaintive voice and a little wistful violin. It all builds to that solo merging into a duet in the last 40 seconds, which makes me think, yeah, accordions can rock like that.
And yeah, that’s a pretty funny sentence to capture. The accordion is such an inherently funny-looking instrument— all clicky buttons and heaving bellows— and one that’s so often associated with levity. It can be easy to forget how versatile the instrument is, even when it still sounds exactly like itself. Take “Kaunis” from Finnish folk-rock group Anis Kittu’s album Kaihola, released earlier this year. The accordion is woven throughout the record but stands mostly solo on this track, complemented only by a plaintive voice and a little wistful violin. It all builds to that solo merging into a duet in the last 40 seconds, which makes me think, yeah, accordions can rock like that.
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