Calamateur vs.
Steve Lawson
Calamateur
Tiny Pushes Vol.2
Calamateur
The Old Fox of '45
The Gena Rowlands Band
La Merde et les Etoiles
V/A
Deep Peace
The Out_Circuit
Burn Your Scripts, Boys
Calamateur
Son of Everyone EP
Calamateur
Tiny Pushes Vol.1
The Gena Rowlands Band
(trailer) EP
Oldsolar
The Perfect Backswing EP
Tiny Pushes Vol.1 (How To Be Childlike)
by Calamateur (clave003/tim004)
FREE!
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(19.5 MB Zip file of album & artwork. MP3's @
160kbps)
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Released May 2003 For Rachel Howie
You can download this album for FREE by right-clicking here and choosing 'Save target as...'. This download is a Zip file containing the 10 tracks, artwork and a 'readme' file. The Zip file is quite large at nearly 20MB, so this is NOT recommended if you're on a slow connection. If you enjoy listening to these songs and want to support the artist please click here:
This joint release between Timshel Records & Autoclave Records was originally intended to be a mini album for 7" vinyl, but has now been released as 10 mp3 files, available to download for free. These 10 lo-fi gems., recorded on an old four-track, range from the frail electronica of 'Three Point Turn' to the battered acoustic distortion of 'Hey Baby' and 'Simpleton', incorporating childhood recordings, documentary samples and Playstation beeps 'n' clicks along the way. The music's great, it's free and there's artwork.
"...at
17 minutes in total you can hardly go wrong...short and sweet, like a
Highland Guided by Voices."
- Is This Music?
"...An interesting listen which makes me want to hear more..."
- Diskant
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1. False Start / Hallo Boy
2. Simpleton
3. Hopescotch
4. Everyone is the One
5. How to be Childlike
6. Tree Song
7. Open Your Eyes
8. Three Point Turn
9. Hey Baby
10. Two More False Starts/What Else Can We Do?
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Reviews
in full:
"Congratulations are due, to the recipients of the ITM? stamp of
Value and Quality this month. Following their almost harrowing 'Autocity'
EP, Calamateur been busy. The 10 tracks here are all downloadable and
at 17 minutes in total you can hardly go wrong (John Peel's a fan if you
need any further convincing). In fact this works as a set - fragments
of found sound link together the more tunesome songs here such as the
simple but mightily infectious guitar strum of 'Three Point Turn'. Other
highs include the almost-metal riff of 'Simpleton' which again is 'just'
guitar, but all-powerful. 'Hopscotch' is like a lo-fi Durutti Column with
beatbox, and 'Everyone is the One' is a lovely acoustic song, short and
sweet, like a Highland Guided by Voices."
- Stuart McHugh, Is This Music?
"I
have to be honest with you. I have no recollection about where this first
CD by Calamateur, called 'Tiny pushes vol.1 (how to be childlike)', came
from. As good a place to start as any though, eh? Weirdly, although this
is a CD, this whole collection is available to download for free here.
Hey, don't worry too much about big slow download times either, because
the whole ten songs clock in altogether at only around seventeen minutes.
It's worth downloading the whole lot too, as some of the tracks individually
are cut-up snippets and fragments of random samples and sounds, and so
it's best listened to as a whole - the more 'song'-like tracks (which,
even then, are only glimpses of ideas) being interspersed with passages
of vaguely electronic, vaguely dreamlike strangeness. It's hard to get
a grip on where Calamateur are at, but from this selection, they seem
to exist in a world of half-asleep-yet-heartfelt acoustic songs in a suitably
lo-fi style. They remind me of tapes which people used to put out in the
old indiepop/underground cassette days, ideas committed to magnetic tape
before too much refinement comes into play. An interesting listen which
makes me want to hear more - hopefully, their invention and reluctance
to submit to traditional songwriting rules is carried throughout their
other work."
- Simon Minter, Diskant
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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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