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
Deep Peace
by Various Artists / curated by Calamateur (clave006)
£5
(including postage)
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Released
19th July 2004
All proceeds from the sales of this album will go directly to Trident Ploughshares.
Deep Peace is a brilliant new album on Autoclave Records featuring songs, jams and tracks contributed by artists from the UK and the USA. It's like a music festival in a box. One of those someone-special-chose-the-line-up kinds of festivals, like Meltdown or All Tomorrow Parties.
Trident Ploughshares (TP) is a group of dedicated peace and justice activists who believe in non-violent direct action and are willing to risk arrest and imprisonment to protest against Trident, a multiple warhead nuclear missile system carried by the submarine fleet of the same name, and advocate for the decommissioning of weapons of mass destruction. Legal fees are expensive, publicity costs money, a well run protest is not cheap. TP needs cash and it needs public awareness of the issue.
Deep
Peace is a collection of great songs from great bands sympathetic to the
cause. We aim to raise awareness and funds for the work of Trident Ploughshares,
in the hope of making the world a safer, better, more creative and exciting
place. This is not a collection of protest songs, we haven't asked the
musicians to change what they do. Instead, Calamateur has curated a deliriously
brilliant compilation album. Each band donated one of their best songs
and Calamateur tweaked, mastered and shuffled everything into a cohesive
whole. This is a labour of love indeed. It sounds amazing. It will rock
your world.
"...that
rare artefact, a consistently great compilation...Buy it..."
- Is This Music
"... a
rich variety...consistently healthy quality control..."
- Diskant
"..A
fine compilation..."
- Inverness City Advertiser
"...ace..."
- Norman Records
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1.
Aereogramme - Fireworks
2. Oldsolar - This Golden Mile (melonhaus mix)
3. Calamateur - Deep Peace
4. Brahm - Autumn's Metronome
5. Frog Pocket & Calamateur - Underwood Ladykirk / Born Yesterday
6. Spare Snare - Taking on the Sides
7. The Gena Rowlands Band - Kong Meets His Maker (A parable About Dating)
8. Les Tinglies - Sunshine Sometimes (the unadmitted remix)
9. Slow Storm - Unborn Children
10. The Out_Circuit - Glasgow
11. alicebelts - delivier
12. Lewis Turner - Failure to Comply
13. Apologist - Not in Control
14. tenyards - When You're Wronged
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Reviews
in full:
"'An enactment of the Biblical
prophecies to 'beat swords into ploughshares'". Scary stuff, but
no less scary than nuclear armageddon. Which is what Trident Ploughshares
is trying to prevent. Aiding them in this goal is Andrew Howie, the man
behind the acclaimed Calamateur as well as the Scottish arm of Autoclave
Records, who are releasing the record. "I've got a couple of friends
who have been involved with Trident Ploughshares for quite a while and
who have both been arrested several times for protesting," says Howie,
who confesses that he might never have got involved with the movement
if it wasn't for his friends' passion. And sharing this passion - though
imminent arrests are less likely - are som of the best bands from Scotland
and elsewhere. Howie admits that they are some of his favourite bands
anyway, bands who he'd played with or been a fan of - as he says, "There
was no cold calling as such as I'd had some contact with each band at
some point in the past anyway." The album kicks off with Aereogramme's
'Fireworks', a version of the hard-to-find track from the FukdID series
which is at the serenely chilling end of the band's usual loud/quiet formula.
In compiling the album Andrew Howie has surpassed himself - there is the
simple route of taking a few bands from the Autoclave roster, but with
quality like The Out_Circuit and The Gena Rowlands Band readily available,
that's entirely forgiveable. Calamateur also features twice on this album
- once as the title track 'Deep Peace' - despite being based on an ancient
Celtic (pronounced 'keltic'!) blessing, more rocking than anything he's
done before. But the most remarkable track is Frog Pocket, as mashed up
with Calamateur himself. Taking two of the best tunes, pure and simple,
of the past 12 months - 'Underwood Ladykirk' and 'Born Yesterday' - the
mix of glitchcore and haunting melody is an awesome marriage. As if this
wasn't enough, Spare Snare offer 'Taking On the Sides', there's a piece
from Lewis Turner (sometime Arab Strap and Delgados live collaborator),
and perhaps best of all, Les Tinglies - an obscure treasure unearthed
from deep in the Aereogramme lineage. And there's even more - lesser-known
but still worth bearing investigation, making for that rare artefact,
a consistently great compilation. And all profits go to Trident Ploughshares.
Buy it and feel good about yourself into the bargain."
- Stuart McHugh, Is This Music?
"'Compilation
with a conscience' in aid of Trident Ploughshares (TP) - who campaign
against illegal weapons of mass destruction - ours, that is (www.tridentploughshares
org for more info). The Beauly-based Autoclave label specialise in moments
of raw beauty. The 14 bands/artists here overlap and merge and create
a coherent album of many highlights. Aereogramme's 'Fireworks', Calamateur's
unexpectedly gutsy 'Deep Peace', Brahm, Frog Pocket - pretty much every
track! 'Unfeeling' analogue electronica mixed with fragile human emotion
and guitar - that couldn't work?? Yeah, beautifully. A fine compilation."
- Inverness City Advertiser
"Deep
Peace is a compilation CD album from Autoclave Records. It's 'curated'
(i.e. put together) by calamateur, who I have reviewed here before. The
raison d'etre behind this - all compilations need a raison d'etre - is
awareness (and fund) raising for Trident Ploughshares, who aim to shut
down Britain's nuclear weapons capability. There are 14 tracks here, not
of early 90s deep Goan Trance (as the hippyish title may make you think)
but of a variety of (mostly) guitar-oriented independent music. It's quite
a rich variety too, taking in, amongst other things stripped-down acoustic
introspective pop (Aereogramme), moody paranoid-sounding rock (calamateur),
woozy My Bloody Valentine-like noise (Slow Storm) and minimalist blissed-out
drones (Apologist). Aside from those four tracks - my favourites on here
- the album also features Oldsolar, Brahm, Frog Pocket featuring calamateur,
Spare Snare, The Gena Rowlands Band, Les Tinglies, The Out_Circuit, alicebelts,
Lewis Turner and tenyards. What ties the individual tracks together, beyond
the Trident Ploughshares connection, is a very high standard of production
and recording, and consistently healthy quality control."
- Simon Minter, Diskant
"...we
have another ace compilation in aid of a good cause. This time its called
Deep Peace and is aid of Trident Ploughshares which is a campaign to get
rid of Britain's nuclear weapons. There's tracks here from Aereogramme,
Calamateur, Frog Pocket, Spare Snare, the Gena Rowlands band and about
10 more. It thanks Heather Small on the sleeve notes. Now this can't be
Heather 'M People' Small can it? An Audioclave."
- Norman Records
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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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