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Recorded at singer Joss Stone's studio in the depths of the Devon countryside, 'Earth Felt the Wound' deploys state-of-the-Art recording to stunning effect and draws from Kate perhaps her greatest vocal performance to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs of 'Earth Felt the Wound' range from hard-hitting truths about the perilous state of the natural world - \"Threat of Natural Disaster\", \"Storm Petrel\" - to the tenderness of the ballad \"Once Upon a Time\". The album opens with one of the Westbrooks' most lyrical songs, \"The Streams of Lovely Lucienne\" and concludes with the joyfully comical \"Rooster Rabelais\". Kate's original texts deal with contemporary issues of climate change and the destruction of the planet, with poetry, wit and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically Mike and Kate Westbrook still don't acknowledge boundaries. They ensure that there are excursions into outright rock, chanson, jazz and even opera, all brought together with that unmistakable Westbrook sound. With the Granite Band they have assembled a company of brilliant young musicians. 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A troupe of singers and instrumentalists conduct a lively exchange with the painter about the meaning of art, his place in art history, posterity, plagiarism, about his friendship with Henri Matisse. The dialogue continues in song and repartee until the sun goes down on the sea wall and night envelopes the sensual world of Monsieur Dufy. \u003ci\u003ePaintbox Jane\u003c\/i\u003e was premiered in March 2016 at the Arts Club Vout-OReenees in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next couple of years the show toured jazz clubs and studio theatres. The album was recorded by the late Jon Hiseman in his Temple Music Studios in May 2017. It has now been mixed and mastered by Ru Lemer. Since winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award in the late 1970s with their jazz cabaret 'Mama Chicago', composer Mike and vocalist\/ librettist Kate have generated a succession of music theatre pieces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have written for the stage, for television and radio, and toured with theatre, dance and opera companies as well as their own ensembles, throughout the UK, Europe and beyond. 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It includes settings of poetry in French, German and English. Its five movements are entitled London Bridge, Wenceslas Square, Berlin Wall, Vienna and Picardie. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst performed in Amiens in 1987 with Le Sinfonietta de Picardie, 'London Bridge' was recorded at the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris and released on Virgin Venture. The UK premiere of London Bridge took place on November 9th 1990 at St Anne's Church, Limehouse in the Jazz Lunarcy Festivaland involved the Docklands Sinfonietta (35- piece string and woodwind ensemble) directed by Rupert Bond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe following day the ensemble flew to Switzerland to appear in the Zürich International Jazz Festival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new album \u003ci\u003eLondon Bridge Live in Zürich 1990\u003c\/i\u003e is taken from the 'live' recording of that concert made for SRF radio. 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