Title: The Rough Guide To Paris Café - France - 2CD Type: CD Label: World music network Code: RGNET1240 Release date: 2010 Like tango in Buenos Aires or rebetika in Athens, Parisian bal musette is an urban musical style born in the early twentieth century from a melting pot of cultures. At the time, café-charbons of the Bastille area were owned by people from the Auvergne, a mountainous region in central France. There, in courtyards, people danced the emblematic bourrée to the sound of the cabrette (also called musette), the Auvergnat small-pipe. The Gare de Lyon train station, leading to Italy, was not far away, and many migrants from the other side of the Alps settled in the area, bringing with them their accordions. They started playing alongside small-pipe players, eventually replacing them. A new music was born, which kept the name musette or bal musette. The rest is history: the accordion soon became the symbol of Paris! The first musette accordionists of the 1920s and early 1930s made people dance in the shady dance halls of the Bastille area. They imposed a new repertoire: the valse musette (waltz), the java (derived from the mazurka) and the foxtrot amongst other styles. Alongside the accordion, a typical bal musette orchestra often included the banjo (sometimes played by a Gypsy musician) and the jâze (drums, from the American word ‘jazz’). Big names of this era include Emile Vacher (1883–1969), often credited as the real inventor of themusette style, the Péguri brothers (Charles Péguri was one of the first accordionists to play alongside acabrette player, who happened to be his own father-in-law, Antoine Bouscatel) and Henri Momboisse (1889–1960). Titles   CD1 David Rivière: Glissade Jamait: Le Coquelicot Angelo Debarre & Ludovic Beier: I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight André Minvielle: Flambée Montalbanaise Ludovic Beier Quartet: Waltz In Paris Michele Bernard: Boyaux De Paris Marcel Azzola & Didi Duprat: Rue De La Chine Beltuner: Kif (feat Mustapha MB) Trio Dca: Polka À Alfred Mouret Francis Lemarque: Rue De Lappe Henri Momboisse: Impression Joseph Colombo Du Bal Tabarin Et Son Ensemble: Germaine La Chiffonie: De Place En Place Armand Lassagne: Le Tournis Damia: La Guinguette A Fermé Ses Volets Jean Gabin: Quand On Se Promène Au Bord De L'eau Jean Peyronnin, A. Tedeschi Et Leur Célèbre Orchestre Musette: Accordéonette Ukulele Club De Paris: Java Javanaise Les Primitifs Du Futur: Fox Musette Novelty Fox: Slalom À La Croix Fry CD2 Bonus Disc by Beltuner 1.No Comment 2.No Comment (Original) 3.Sa Préférée 4.Improbable 5.Virevolte 6.Rumsteck 7.Gnossienne n°1 8.Beltuner en Jamaïque 9.Tikni Chaj 10.De Rien 11.Minuit 2 12.Les Violons De Guinguois 13.Beltuner toujours en Jamaïque 14.Intro Opus 7 15.Troubles Faits 16.Enzo 17.Valse opus 8 n°3 18.Améthyste n°2 19.Beltuner à Auber 20.Constantine Connection 21.Kif 22.Swing 124 23.Dépression au Dessus du Jardin 24.Décidément