Kate Consonant (Tribute to Kate Westbrook)

by Billie Bottle & The Multiple

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In September 2020, the band got together remotely to record a song for the birthday of the incomparable Kate Westbrook.

Kate is internationally known as a painter, singer, librettist, musician and performer. She is also our dear friend, collaborator and inspiration.

One year later we are delighted to make the song available to all.

lyrics

Kate Consonant (Bottle/Darke)

There’s a skirmish in the gallery
A brush with a clamorous squall
Flying lines of musicality
Colours obeying the call

Tenor horn and piccolo
Where order and chaos combine
Focussing you realise
The Art-Bird’s on your mind

Kate Consonant
So cool so measured
Kate Consonant
She traded sweetness and light
For deepness and bite
Kate Consonant

Kate Consonant
So einzigartig
Kate Consonant
Elle est la chanteuse de joie
Ma che fuoco ci da!
Kate Consonant

Stepping onto the proscenium
Strike a pose only she knows
She can jazz ‘em or Rossini ‘em
As the Westbrook flows
Songs of love and bittersweet
The grit and the wit and the heart
She looks at him
He looks at her
They share the path of Art

Kate Consonant
Refuelled with pleasure
Kate Consonant
‘Cause she knows the price
Creating fire and ice
Detonates an explosive device

Kate…

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Kate Consonant

Kate

credits

released September 18, 2021
Billie Bottle - Voices, Piano, Organ, Bass, Mellotron
Viv Goodwin-Darke - Flute, Voices
Roz Harding - Alto Sax, Air and Kate’s Piccolo
Martine Waltier - Voices

Music by Billie Bottle
Lyrics by Billie Bottle & Viv Goodwin-Darke
Arranged, Recorded and Mixed by Billie Bottle & Viv Goodwin-Darke at Coombe Brook
Remote Recording by Roz Harding and Martine Waltier

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