Restoration Ruin is an album by Keith Jarrett on which he performs multiple instruments (including piano, organ, guitar, soprano saxophone, harmonica, recorder, bass guitar, drums, tambourine and sistrum), and sings his own lyrics.

Here Jarrett overdubs himself on various instruments, similar to the tribal Spirits (1985) or especially the free funk No End (2013, recorded in 1986).

[5] In his quite enthusiastic Jarrett's biography Ian Carr states: As a bit of juvenilia, this is an impressive achievement in terms of instrumental competence, but as art it is disastrous.

And not a jazz vocal album, either, but a folk-rock one in which he alternates—quite literally, track to track—between sub-Dylan outings and more folk-Baroque ones that echo the late-'60s work of artists like Love and Tim Buckley".

[6] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings commented: "The pieces are all very short, sometimes almost perfunctory, but there is no mistaking Jarrett's gifts and, as an exercise in instrumental eclecticism, it is a much more appealing and convincing performance than the later Spirits.