The Kraken's One Day Is As Another for tuba and piano (2009).
The Kraken was the mythical poly-tentacled sea-monster that, if only mentioned in a whisper, would instantly spread terror across the decks of any passing sailing vessel. One may envision the beast slumbering for years in the uncharted depths of the ocean, twitching at various irritations such as distant glints of sunlight or muffled canon fire from the world above, but never quite finding the resolve to awake with any sense of purpose. However, on that rare day where hunger and the corresponding desire to hunt collide, the beast raises furiously from the depths to wreak its havoc upon men. Sail, rope, wood, and flesh are smashed and ripped beneath the enormous weight of the enraged creature’s slithering arms and oozing body; its only purpose being, it would seem, to exact revenge on God’s more lovely creatures for their apparent perfection and favor in the sight of the Almighty.
