"Temporary Village" will help the listener navigate through a vast and mysterious trove of international music, adding useful contextual details whenever possible. "Temporary Village" will assume all things are equal where ever musical instruments are picked up in the spirit of preserving and renovating tradition, with accordions maintaining their inherent charm regardless of nationality. The journey ends with a trip home to "Old Weird America", with recordings from the earliest days of the American recording industry, with the roots of America's bedrock musical styles: traditional, country, blues, spirituals, proto-jazz, and whatever else was on the Victrola from 1910 to 1940.

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