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Accordions in North East Brazil

Here is a fantastic piece of footage, evidently taken from a movie, of Jackson Do Pandeiro and Almira Castilho singing and dancing. I don't really understand the culture here, but it's fascinating.

Incidentally, I found this on a Brazilian blog called 'Forro em Vinil' which specialises in posting mp3s of out of print forro records. My recommendation is to search for the 78rpm records.

Link: Forro em Vinil 

More from Chapi Chapo

The last selection went down well, so here's a second set.

Cat Organ!

Cat Organ!, originally uploaded by PauloJASerra.

See Wikipedia for a description of the cat piano or Katzenklavier.

Link: Cat Piano on Wikipedia