about the record

Cassotto is the debut album from Brussels-based accordionist Suzan Peeters.

The title refers to the “cassotto” — a small resonating chamber inside the accordion that warms, softens, and deepens its tone. Listening to the record feels as if you’ve stepped into that chamber yourself, enveloped in a world where intimacy and grandeur collide.

Although this is her first release, Peeters is already recognised as one of the most promising names in Belgium’s experimental music scene. Her distinctive live shows — from leading venues across Belgium to a packed Café Oto in London — have earned her a reputation for combining accordion, electronics, and unconventional objects such as a massage board into a striking whole where contrasts come together in unexpected ways. The album translates this approach into recorded form, offering the immediacy of her concerts while maintaining the intimate atmosphere suggested by the title.

While the cassotto chamber naturally gives the accordion a soft and velvety voice, Peeters uses that warmth to explore extremes — from hushed detail to bold, expansive gestures that fill the room. Across the record, she traverses the acoustic and the electronic, the tender and the abrasive, the static and the dynamic, the traditional and the experimental.

It’s a debut that places the accordion at the centre of an adventurous and contemporary sound world — one that invites the listener to discover how far the instrument can reach when tradition and imagination intertwine.