Banoffee EP by Calamateur
Four-song EP, orginally released on Autoclave Records in August 2010.
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ORIGINAL AUTOCLAVE RECORDS PRESS RELEASE:
(written by Richard Vernon)
Built on a sparse shuffle of drums and a throb of bass, with a sprinkle of guitar ‘Banoffee’ dips and swells in an unassuming, but terrifically potent way. A beguiling love song to a real woman: a woman who feels intimidated by the unattainable beauty in magazines, but will still clean her plate down to the last crumb of pie. A woman who carries herself lightly yet takes the world seriously, and head-on; a heroine, in other words. The song takes the heroine's (real life?) confusion over a plateful of the delicious Ban(ana and t)offee dessert and uses her gracious response to social embarrassment to encapsulate all that is good, beautiful and desirable about her. ‘Banoffee’ is so very intimate that it cannot help being universal, it is a love song for anyone who sees, or has ever seen, the world in the light cast by a loved one.
The three B-sides are no slouches either; a haunting and gorgeous cover of Johnny Cash's 1970 paen to June, ‘Flesh and Blood’, followed by Calamateur's take on ‘Strong Hand’, Emmylou Harris's tribute to Johnny Cash that she sang at his funeral, and finally (perhaps best of all) is a devastating version of the Flaming Lips song ‘Feeling Yourself Disintegrate’.
There you have it — four great songs, three covers, and one original song destined to be covered many times, all of them dealing with great love and great loss. Love and death, and great songwriting. Can't beat it.
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As heard on 6Music's Gideon Coe show.
Tracklist
| 1. | Banoffee | 3:29 |
| 2. | Flesh and Blood | 2:59 |
| 3. | Strong Hand | 3:09 |
| 4. | Feeling Yourself Disintegrate | 4:27 |
Credits
Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Iain Hutchison at Glo-Worm Studio, Glasgow.
Original artwork by Derek Steele:
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Andrew Howie is a Scottish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & community music tutor who has been writing and recording since 2000. He has played on over 100 records. Some of them are here.