Charlemagne Palestine – a man who plays the whole building

The notorious piano-destroying, soft-toy loving Charlemagne Palestine is in the UK this weekend. Alfred Hickling gets a rare audience with a pioneer'My best performances are the ones I can never remember," says Charlemagne Palestine. "The music takes me into a kind of trance, and the next thing I know, it's over." When he began playing, the trance might last five hours; it might see Palestine pounding away at a pair of grand pianos until the instruments had been thoroughly detuned; it might end ...

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