CALAMATEUR SESSION

Session Tracks:

1. Won't Last Forever
2. Half Truth
3. Here Beside (Fried Fernando Mix)
4. Desperate Days

Calamateur is Andrew Howie, who 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.

These four tracks are all alternative versions of songs from Calamateur's album, 'The Old Fox of 45'. Although the album was only released last year, some of the songs had been recorded as early as 2001 so Andrew wanted to rerecord a few of them in completely different ways to see how they would sound now. So, 'Half Truth' has changed from the loudest song he has ever recorded to one of the quietest, 'Won't Last Forever' has turned country (well...kind of) and 'Here Beside' is now just a total racket - but then, maybe you thought that before. The new version of 'Desperate Days' is for Mark (Andrew's friend), who hopefully approves.

Most of the session was recorded, mixed and mastered on the 19th, 21st and 22nd May 2005 at Fertility Doll Studios, although the skeleton of 'Here Beside (Fried Fernando mix)' had been lying around for a while.

For more info please visit www.calamateur.com and www.autoclaverecords.com