Yves Lambert and Bébert Orchestra

This band really shone at the International Accordion Festival! I didn't shoot any video - this one I grabbed from youtube. It is a good introduction to what this group is all about. Yves Lambert is playing a two-row box in Irish tuning. For those not familiar with this, the two rows of buttons on the right side are tuned to arrangements of notes that are a half-tone apart, making a de facto chromatic instrument. The seated fiddle-player is using his feet as percussion instruments. In a workshop he said the sound was to be like the galloping of a horse.