Here's the press release we used when the album came out:

"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."

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...and here's what I wrote about the album on my blog:

"‘Calamateur vs Steve Lawson‘ is a collaborative album I made with the bass player and looper Steve Lawson.

Most of the songs on this album started out as recordings I’d made in my own home studio. I then visited Steve at his home in London where we added his bass parts and made lots of fun noises together. I then took it all home and spent weeks editing and mixing what we’d done.

I’m really proud of this album. It’s definitely one of my more left-field releases but I still think the combination of my quietly-sung acoustic songs mixed with Steve’s ethereal bass makes for some pretty beautiful music, particularly the tracks ‘Wonder’, ‘How Long’ and ‘Endo’."

Enjoy!