Noaccordion is a quirky, electro, gypsy, pop project that takes you on a wild ride of a European Cabaret Show coupled with 80’s Pop and 90’s Dance sounds. Noaccordion’s songs have been described as “full of hooks”, “retro yet futuristic” and sounding like “Portishead meets the B52’s meets Gogol Bordello meets Gotan Project”. Noaccordion is the music produced by Onah Indigo(singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist) and her collaborators. Onah is a sonic and visual artist who has been based mainly in Italy, Britain and California.
Noaccordion represents the duality that we lead with our lives. Many times we are told not to do something which sparks our interest and often drives us more to act upon the things that we have been prohibited from doing. Why are there so many signs telling us what not to do? Why is the media obsessed with bad news?
Although Onah has been playing keys and percussion for decades it wasn’t until she started playing the accordion that people began to have distinct opinions about one of her instruments. Most people are mesmerized by the accordion and its cultural heritage but a few abhor its piercing tone and have asked her to disappear. She is also struggling with the fact that everybody wants to hear only the accordion, including her musical collaborators, and they seem to have lost interest in her other instruments. Her accordion is taking over her life at the moment and many time she has to stand her ground and say “No accordion today, I’m gonna play the keys instead!”
Having lived most of her life in small towns she moved to the Bay Area two years ago and has entered into a vibrant, stimulating, musical scene. Through local stellar jam sessions she has met most of her new amazing musical collaborators who are adding a whole new dimension to the Noaccordion sound. The new EP"almostallaccordion" takes Noaccordion’s sounds to another level as it blends electronic beats and bass with live latin american percussion, tango with hip hop, punk with trip hop and gypsy with drum and bass. After years of practice and study Onah has also finally found her voice with its flexibility and wide range. Her vocal channel has opened up to ranges from deep soulful sounds, operatic highs, and gritty mids.
Noaccordion’s debut electropop EP entitled “Noaccordion” was released in April 2010 and hundreds of people attended the CD Release Party held in Ojai, California. A few months after the release party, Onah returned to finish her Music and Architecture Degree at UC Berkeley and graduated in December 2011. Onah is now based in Oakland and has just finished her second EP which embraces new musical collaborators including Evan Fraser(master percussionist), Mastalock(beat box), Taj Angelo(MC), Abai(electronic music producer), Chatter(MC), and Danny Cao(trumpet). As opposed to the debut EP that had one song with a dash of accordion, this new EP features the accordion on four songs. The new single “Bella” has also been released on the Accordion Babes Pinup Calendar 2013 Compilation CD.
Noaccordion’s main musical influences have been British Electronica, Chopin, Debussy, Satie, Lamb, Massive Attack, Tricky, Cocteau Twins, Propellerheads, Portishead, Drum n Bass, Trip Hop, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, B52’s, Bill Withers, X, Stevie Wonder, Thievery Corporation, Air, and Dan the Automator.
Onah was classically trained on the piano from an early age but she quit studying in high school when her teacher refused to let her play pop music. She took a break from the piano and began writing songs on guitar. While living in Britain, during most on the Nineties, she was formally trained as a sound engineer and began producing her own Electronic Music. During this time she also studied Latin Amercian Percussion and performed a few years with Jam Samba “10 piece Brazilian Percussion Group” and Tommy Rhumba “6 piece Cuban Percussion Group”. Upon her return to the States in 2000 she started her study of jazz piano/vocals, became comfortable with improvising and began writing songs for keys and voice. In 2009 she was given her first accordion and taught herself to play. Although she had written and self-recorded hundreds of songs by 2008, it wasn’t until she worked with top notch producer, Sean Ingoldsby, that she felt confident to officially release her first six song EP, entitled “Noaccordion” in April 2010. After co-producing this EP, she developed the skills and confidence to produce on her own material independently which has resulted in the latest Noaccordion EP entitled “allmostallaccordion”
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