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Cross​/​Over

by Donald Bousted

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Elisabeth Pfeiffer
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Loretta Notareschi
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Donald Bousted & Lee Ferguson - Cross/Over 06:48
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Memories of Q’s: Blue Grass 03:20
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Memories of Q’s: Help Yourself 04:02
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Memories of Q’s: Romanze 03:14
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Memories of Q’s: Little Bender 03:29
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Memories of Q’s: Barkarole 03:23
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Conversations I 03:19
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Conversations II 02:02
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Mal and Mini Plays Duets 08:30
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Shoreline Sketches: Pebbles 02:18
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Shoreline Sketches: Rain 02:24
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Shoreline Sketches: Waves 01:46
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Shoreline Sketches: Horizon 02:15
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Shoreline Sketches: Harbour 01:55
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Melody 03:49
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Evocations 05:14
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The Ballad of Baron Anton 04:30
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New virtuosic music for ukulele by Loretta K. Notareschi, Albrecht Zummach, Dimitri van Halderen, Donald Bousted, Alan Bullard, Geoffrey Cox and Stephen Altoft.

The concept of this album evolved gradually from one or two pieces but became cristalized when I received Loretta K. Norateschi’s piece ‘Cross/Over’. I had already been working hard at Albrecht Zummach’s epic piece for solo ukulele which in its nature crossed, mixed and juxtposed different music genres and as the newer pieces emerged they all seemed to offer different aspects of crossing or reaching out or taking big steps into new territory. This ranged from the technical – in Geoffrey Cox’s piece, for example, the fusion of a simple melodic idea with a rhythmic structure which moves towards new complexity; to the artistic – the absurd, exaggerated, fantasy world of Stephen Altoft’s ‘The Ballad of Baron Anton’; to the cultural – a spanish guitar piece on a ukulele, but somehow absolutely making it something new and entirely refreshing (’Evocations’). The other thing which characterises this programme is that the music is all very difficult with demands ranging from the simply ‘fast’, to tricky metric and rhythmic shifts, to demands of ensemble, character and balance. It‘s been a blast and I hope you enjoy listening!

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released October 31, 2021

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Donald Bousted benefitted from some excellent teaching, studying the guitar with Thomas Hartmann, the lute with Christopher Wilson and early music with Peter Holman and Ian Gammie. Later, he took further guitar lessons with Antonio Albanes and Oliver Hunt privately. In 2017, he discovered the classical ukulele and it seemed to bring many of his interests together. Sadly Donald passed in 2021. ... more

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