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Not meant to be beautiful - some of the best music isn't. This piece is describing the horrors of a forced labour camp - "Five views on Gulag State". Thanks for sharing it, couldn't be a more tragically appropriate piece in these terrible times, especially from a Russian composer working in Odessa in the Ukraine.

The whole thing is worth a few listens
 
Can I ask, is there a big market in Western Europe or America for this type of avant garde accordion music?
 
I don't know. If we are talking about mass market it probably narrows us down to not that many pieces of classical music. Some new music does make it though though. This is an obvious success from another composer on the contemporary edge describing scenes in sound
 
Oleg is Ukrainian, but he lives in the Netherlands since 2000. My wife teaches organ and keyboard instruments at Baarle (NL / B) and Oleg teaches accordion there. They met yesterday at a mutual concert. I contacted him and we will meet and I intend to take lessons from him :)
 
That's excellent news. By the way I like your button accordion, that Mengascini is a super looking instrument.
 
Thanks Walker. I rent the Mengascini from a local shop for a year, to get started with accordion playing. It is a C-system 120 bass with converter. If I decide to buy an accordion at that shop, I get the rent price for a year back.
 
Did you get the chance to read The Classical Accordion and its Repertoire by Paolo Picchio? I quite enjoyed reading it, and it certainly brought new insights for me, mainly about the button accordion treble keyboad and some of it's particularities. I also found the section addressing the concepts of actual pitch versus loco tastature and the use of free bass to be fairly interesting - though much of the modern repertoire I don't really enjoy. I have much simpler tastes I suppose. I think my composition grounding is from mid last century (or the one before it).:)
 
Yes, I have that book, but I did not read it completely yet. It is indeed very interesting, not an easy read, but as you wrote, it certainly gives a lot of insights. BTW, I also like older music very much as well, 19th century, the great French organ repertoire, baroque music, from my organist background. And still older music from the renaissance and the middle ages, my wife does a lot of middle ages music on replicas of medieval instruments (see the other thread where I posted a picture of a organetto) and gregorian chant.
 
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