Comedian Harmonists – London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grindish twitterings for November

Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.

A steam locomotive at Zaječí, Southern Moravia. In the background, the Hodonín express.

Toros: Finito de Córdoba indulta a ‘Organillero’, de Fuente Ymbro

Pros, contras, divagaciones.

Krishna tocando la flauta para Radha y dos vacas, detalle (1897, Pune).

Spain, it’s the rooster’s bollocks

Ignorance helps the dart wander.

My uncle Bumba from Kalumba dances rhumba (and he’s German)

Señor Coconut was a timely reminder to those who needed one that the best performers of Latin American music have always been Central Europeans. Here’s der Onkel Bumba as immortalised by the Comedian Harmonists: Their life made impossible by Mr Goebbels, half the Comedians ended up in the States, but an even stranger fate awaited…