SEEKING
Mandolin, Accordion.ABOUT
Mandolinist and accordionist wanted (i.e. two musicians, one a mandolinist, the other an accordionist, rather than one musician who plays both) in or around the Coventry area to form a band playing all original material.
This band will have no hint of rock & roll to it. There will be no guitars and no drums. Ever. That restriction aside, I’m open to virtually any instruments being used. There will certainly be mandolin, accordion, ukulele, banjo, possibly piano and violin, and probably lots more besides.
Multi-instrumentalists are more than welcome, but if you play only mandolin/ accordion that’s fine.
I’m looking for someone who’s interested in doing something different, who’s not content with simply doing a minor variation on something that’s gone before. Consequently, there is no genre that this music can be neatly slotted into. Despite the instruments listed, this will not be folk music. Owing to the instruments used, there may be the merest suggestion of the folk music of Italy, England, and France, but this will inevitably have been filtered through the popular/film/classical music of the last hundred years or so.
- Screen name:
- Meanderthal
- Member since:
- Mar 28 2016
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years together:
- 1
- Age:
- 54 years
Influences
A list of influences won’t give you the faintest idea of what this band will actually sound like, but it may give you an impression of the general spirit:
Joanna Newsom
Loudon Wainwright III
The Smiths
Noël Coward
The Magnetic Fields
Philip Larkin
Ennio Morricone
John King
Ian Dury
John Cooper Clarke
Ivor Cutler
The Unthanks
