Colin Currie: Borrowed Time and Primitive Sides

“Borrowed Time”, for sure, offers plenty of that and includes the piece Colin Currie has performed more often than any other in his career: “Trilogy” by his friend Dave Maric. It is the culmination of an album built entirely on the work of Dave maric and which was realised with plenty of live and sampled percussion and the help of duo partner Håkan Hardenberger. Hardenberger , who plays flugelhorn and trumpet on “Lucid Intervals”, has been a regular musical partner ever since a performance in Germany, which Colin Currie refers to as “a belter of a gig”.

Their shared passion for awarding a physical quality to their music, as well as the fact that their instruments have a distinct “primitive side” to them and complement each other perfectly, has now led to a string of projects. The latest of these includes commissions for works by Dave Maric and Lucas Ligeti among others. But “Borrowed Time” also highlights duos of Colin Currie with fellow-percussionist Sam Walton as well as with the organ resonances of Clive Driskill-Smith.

The wide influences of Colin Currie, meanwhile, are becoming very obvious on his web-blog, where he goes into details about his obsession for dark and gloomy rock legends Joy Division as well as by his revelations of wanting to become a pop musician as a boy.

“Borrowed Time” by Colin Currie has been released on the Onyx label, set up by (now Sony BMG Masterworks boss) Chris Craker and (former Decca executive) Paul Moseley in 2005.