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Colin Currie presents the first concerto album on his tag, a pairing of works by the innovative Viennese composer, conductor and chansonnier HK Gruber. Written for Currie and dating from 2010, Inchinto the open...Inch focuses on tuned and pitched percussion. Gruber's emotionally vast music serving as a moving epitaph - energetic, enigmatic and eventually desperate as the final sections gradually and dissonantly break apart the entire orchestral edifice. The increasing depth of the silences offering little more than hollow, raw grief. A sense of scandal and anarchy are implied already in the title of the album's second piece, the InchRough MusicInch in question is a reference to the hounding out of waywardly sinful citizens of a bygone era, in a bizarre and clamorous street-ritual designed to draw attention to those that dared to err. Percussion here is at the forefront of the accusatory activity and each movement title refracts the concept; InchToberacInch, InchShivareeInch and InchCharivariInch all different versions of the same concept, from slightly differing peoples. Album Tracks 1. HK Gruber Rough Music I. Toberac 2. HK Gruber Rough Music II. Shivaree 3. HK Gruber Rough Music III. Charivari 4. HK Gruber Into the Open