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Ross Bolleter: Night Kitchen
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ross Bolleter delivers on a promise he never made but has always suggested, throughout his long and distinguished musical career. On Night Kitchen--a reference to a crepuscular event with the ruined pianos in question--he succeeds in producing what should go down in the history of music as an amazing document that furthers the cause of improvised music. The music of Bolleter's ruined pianos possess an element of surprise; even if their sound is a fixed feature--as characterized by the finality ...
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by John Eyles
For the uninitiated--which includes most of us, I would guess--this album is at once intriguing, fascinating and educational. Subtitled for ruined pianos and pianos on the edge of ruin, it features Ross Bolleter, co-founder of WARPS (World Association for Ruined Piano Studies), who recorded all of these pieces on ruined pianos at locations in his native Australia. (All of these pieces were originally released on CD-R by WARPS.)
In his extensive sleeve notes, Bolleter writes that a piano is Ruined ...
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Master of a Small House
Like Roland Kirk and his panoply of horns, Russ Bolleter faces the charge of gimmickry each time he holds forth on his instruments. Bolleter's province is ruined pianos, the specifics for which are delineated in his own book on the subject, The Well Weathered Piano (3rd edition). Ruined" is an important adjectival designation, distinct from neglected" or devastated" with a key requirement residing in the condition that no single note sounds like one attainable from an even-tempered upright piano.
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