GRANITE by Kate Westbrook, The Granite Band

Kate Westbrook’s GRANITE is inspired by her love of Dartmoor and its granite quarries. Her text conjures up the mythical figure of a quarry worker, - labour, love and death in the vast Dartmoor landscape haunted by the absence of the curlew’s cry. Kate’s astonishing vocal range and strikingly original lyrics are matched by Mike Westbrook’s genre-busting score and the outstanding and inventive playing of Kate’s new group THE GRANITE BAND.

Commissioned by Frank Eichler GRANITE was premiered on June 21st in Ashburton, Devon in the Dartmoor Resonance Music Festival.

GRANITE the album, produced by Jay Auborn and Callum Godfroy, was recorded at dBs Studios, Bristol. International distribution is by Proper Music Distribution

Tracklist

1.	Tracks of Desire	4:33

2.	Year's Rotation	1:55

3.	Spread-eagled	4:12

4.	Glacial Flood	1:00

5.	Helpless, helpless	1:43

6.	Curlew Cry	7:01

7.	Architects and Pornographers	4:48

8.	Sun and Moon	2:24

9.	Raw Creation	3:11

10.	Rain-soaked Summer	5:21

11.	Sun-warmed Soil	1:40

12.	Story	3:04

13.	Wordless, wordless	1:11

14.	Bathing Belles and Philosophers	1:17

15.	Late Autumn	1:15

16.	My Barricade	3:38

17.	Salvation	2:26

18.	Winter	2:20

19.	Aeons Old	2:13

20.	Exile	2:58

21.	Quarry Workers and Instrumentalists	3:09

22.	Reckless, reckless	3:45

23.	Yearning Bird	4:15

24.	Let's Face the Music	0:57

Credits

released October 7, 2019

Kate Westbrook & The Granite Band
Kate Westbrook voice, whistling
THE GRANITE BAND
Roz Harding saxophone
Jesse Molins guitar Matthew North guitar
Billie Bottle electric bass
Mike Westbrook piano/keyboards
Coach York drums

Produced by Jay Auborn, assisted by Callum Godfroy, for dBs Productions
Recorded and mixed at dBs Studios Bristol March/ April 2018
Mastered by Kris Burton
Design Sam Whitney-Morris
Cover photo of Haytor Quarry and the photo of open moor Kate Westbrook
Bechstein piano by Micklesburgh Pianos Bristol

Guitar solos on tracks 7, 10, 16 by Jesse Molins and on tracks 13, 15,21 by Matthew North

GRANITE a soliloquy commissioned by Frank Eichler
Recorded with financial assistance from 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙛𝙩 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩

Thanks to Sergio Amadori for the album contents photo

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