Calamateur vs.
Steve Lawson

Calamateur
Tiny Pushes Vol.2

Calamateur
The Old Fox of '45

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La Merde et les Etoiles


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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

Calamateur vs.
Steve Lawson
by Calamateur vs. Steve Lawson (clave010)

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Released 1st October 2007

You're listening to the fruits of a long friendship, a collaboration between two very different musical talents and a collection of beautiful, eerie songs.

The underground aesthetic promotes passion and integrity over craftsmanship and musical chops. Calamateur vs Steve Lawson offers no such dilemma. The playing is immaculate, the production gorgeous and the arrangements are achingly close to perfection. These are Calamateur songs though, which means they're loaded with yearning, loss, ascetic sensuality and a commitment to revealing personal and universal truths. And tunes, it's more packed with tunes that a Topic is with hazelnuts.

Calamateur vs Steve Lawson finds Calamateur (Andrew Howie, Highlands-based reclusive solo artist and sage) in a rare collaboration with another musician, the London-based, much demanded session musician, tour sideman and solo bass player, Steve Lawson.

Despite their studio polish, and the understated musical chops on display, the nine songs that have emerged from the Howie-Lawson collaboration are emotionally raw and spiritually bereft. There's far more pain and sense of loss and inadequacy on this album than on, say, The Old Fox of '45, or the Son of Everyone double EP. At times deeply unsettling, and often painfully confessional (even the instrumental tracks) the overwhelming sense is of beauty in a stark place; a desolate Antarctic wilderness of songs.

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1. Wonder
2. How Long
3. Even After
4. Unimagined
5. Spring Snow Storm
6. Endo
7. Ripsukibuna
8. Lie in Wait
9. 1993
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Steve Lawson
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