Calamateur vs.
Steve Lawson

Calamateur
Tiny Pushes Vol.2

Calamateur
The Old Fox of '45


V/A
Deep Peace

Calamateur
Son of Everyone EP

Calamateur
Tiny Pushes Vol.1

Andrew Howie lives in an abandoned portastudio on the muddy banks of the Beauly Firth in the north of Scotland. He makes up songs using pieces of drift wood and the corpses of dead birds. Strange men steal them away in the night while he's digging for scallops or sleeping on the old couch behind the eight track. In the morning he has no songs and has to start all over again. Sometimes he dreams that he's actually married, living in a nice two storey flat over a mini market and has turned the spare bedroom into a high-tech recording studio. Since it rains a lot in Beauly and the roof of the portastudio leaks, he usual wakens from these dreams to find his face is wet and the song stealers have left the door open again.

The fruits of Calamateur's previous labours have been heard on BBC Radio 1's John Peel show, Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, Madrid's Cielo Liquido as well as local radio the length and breadth of Scotland. Reviews are found liberally scattered across the web and in various high falutin' music journals. There should be a sheet of impressive quotes attached here, but if you look at each Calamateur release page on this website, you can read them in context and realise we weren't just extracting the juiciest lines. It really is fair to say "Critically Acclaimed". So we do.

Andrew has the knack of building songs from apparently disparate parts; delicately picked acoustic, soft harmonies, feedback, distortion, electronics, montages of samples, thunderous bass, rock guitar, and found sound; which make sense as satisfying, haunting wholes.

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Calamateur links
www.calamateur.com
www.cdbaby.com
www.last.fm/calamateur
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Discography

Released by Autoclave Records:
(clave010): Calamateur vs. Steve Lawson
(clave009): Tiny Pushes Vol.2 (All the Wrong Buttons)
(clave008): The Old Fox of '45
(clave004): Son of Everyone e.p.
(clave003/tim004): Tiny Pushes Vol. 1 (How to be Childlike)

Also Available:
(tim001): White Light Unknown / Inhabit 7" single on Timshel Records
(tim002): Autocity EP mini CD EP on Timshel Records

Also Featured on:
(itm002) Is This Music? cover CD February 2003 - features the track 'Orion'
(clave006) 'Deep Peace' compilation CD - features the tracks 'Deep Peace' & 'Underwood Ladykirk/Born Yesterday'
(itm010) Is This Music? gig showcase CD Oct 2004 - features the track 'Half Truth'
Make Tracks Highland Showcase CD given away with Music Week January 2005 - features the track 'Half Truth'

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Oldsolar
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Calamateur
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The Gena Rowlands Band
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The Out_Circuit
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Steve Lawson
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