G'day Alice,

In a recent thread called (~) "Let's Talk About Accordions", someone mentioned a 3-CD set Planet Squeezebox which is music from all around the world, mostly on accordions. It is generally weak on concertinas, giving none of the excellent English chromatic style, nor the Irish playing on Anglo-chromatic types ... or any other western styles - but it does have several tracks of Zulu (and ?) styles.

These are played on cheap (typically old East German) 20 key German tuning concertinas. (AKA "Chinese Lanterns") The tunes are very much structured around walking rhythms and the chants are those used when walking long distances. It is a very different style from anything I play in Australian traditions, but obviously a part of the musical history of South Africans under European rule.

I bought my CD set from Amazon, after following a link in an accordion site.

Regards,

Bob Bolton