Happy Birthday Mick, we miss you ..... (24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011)
Mick Karn was one of those players with a unique style and is best known as the bassist and also played woodwind instruments, mainly clarinet and saxophone for Japan. Mick moved to the UK from Cyprus in the early 1960s and met the three other founding members of Japan at school in London. Inside and outside Japan, Mick developed a distinctive and original bass sound instantly recognizable as his own. Mick was mainly a self-taught musician and many feel he changed the perception of how the bass is played and heard forever.
After Japan, Mick worked in many areas of music, experimenting in jazz, ambient and prog, and continued to create his own indefinable music as a solo artist and in collaboration with other great musicians, including Gary Numan, Midge Ure, Kate Bush ex-members of Japan. For a taste of Mick’s work solo, look for his first solo album, "Titles" and the Dali’s Car collaboration, 'The Waking Hour'.
Album: The Waking Hour
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I question her around the clock
Hanging on her words
Hear myself say the world has stopped
The first step is the worst
The dance is new, momentum high
Like swelling waves around
Hear myself say the flow has stopped
I ask can I be found?
Humanity is young and sure
The judgement is the mirror
Mother Nature and all her work
The judgement is the mirror
The world confronts a change [us chained]
The judgement is the mirror
[It] Smile, conscious pain
The judgement is the mirror
The swords of men who criticize
The judgement is the mirror
And this we spend to feed our pride
The judgement is the mirror
She offers me a line of truth
The danger in the mirror
She offers me a line of truth
The danger in the mirror
I question her
'round the clock
Hanging on her words
The world has stopped
The dance is new
The momentum high
Like swelling waves
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