calamateur vs. steve lawson

          Download-only album released on Autoclave Records CLAVE010

Released October 2007

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This album is the fruit of a long friendship, a collaboration between two very different musical talents and a collection of beautiful, eerie songs.

Calamateur vs Steve Lawson finds Calamateur 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.

Tracklisting:

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