Mick Karn

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Weather The Windmill 02:46 Tools
Buoy 04:58 Tools
Tribal Dawn 04:13 Tools
Sensitive 03:56 Tools
When Love Walks In 06:30 Tools
Land 04:25 Tools
Passion In Moisture 04:15 Tools
Lost Affections In A Room 04:15 Tools
Atyan B-Boot 00:00 Tools
Ashes to Ashes 00:00 Tools
Trust Me 04:58 Tools
Piper Blue 04:22 Tools
First Impression 05:10 Tools
The Sound Of Waves 03:43 Tools
The Jump 00:00 Tools
Saviour, Are You With Me? 04:05 Tools
Language Of Ritual 05:40 Tools
Dreams Of Reason 06:17 Tools
Bestial Cluster 03:44 Tools
The Three Fates 04:15 Tools
The Show 00:00 Tools
Answer 05:30 Tools
Beard in the Letterbox 07:06 Tools
Feta Funk 00:00 Tools
Back in the Beginning 05:11 Tools
Plaster the Magic Tongue 00:00 Tools
Thundergirl Mutation 00:00 Tools
Never Thought 00:00 Tools
Saday, Maday 06:29 Tools
The End Gag 00:00 Tools
Wishy-Washy Wishing 05:23 Tools
Great Day in the Morning 00:00 Tools
Pulsating Puddles 00:00 Tools
The Drowning Dream 00:00 Tools
Little - Less Hope 00:00 Tools
The Sad Velvet Breath of Summer and Winter 00:00 Tools
It's His Birthday This Year 00:00 Tools
Ashamed To Be A Part Of Them 00:00 Tools
Bones of Mud 00:00 Tools
Lodge of Skins 00:00 Tools
There Was not Anything but Nothing 00:00 Tools
Liver and Lungs 00:00 Tools
Gossip's Cup 00:00 Tools
Venus Monkey 00:00 Tools
The Tooth Mother 00:00 Tools
Up To Nil 00:00 Tools
Presence 00:00 Tools
Angel's Got A Lotus 00:00 Tools
The Salmon Of Knowledge 00:00 Tools
The Forgotten Puppeteer 00:00 Tools
Latin Mastock 00:00 Tools
Serves You Rice 00:00 Tools
Confabulation 00:00 Tools
The Night We Never Met 00:00 Tools
Tender Poison 00:00 Tools
Yes, I've Been To France 00:00 Tools
Purple Attachment 00:00 Tools
Vote For Lies 00:00 Tools
Left Big 00:00 Tools
J.B. Meknee 00:00 Tools
Floating home 00:00 Tools
My Mrs T 00:00 Tools
Antisocial Again? 00:00 Tools
Twitchy hand mover 00:00 Tools
Of & About 00:00 Tools
Ashes to Ashes Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Here,Dreaming 00:00 Tools
TV Woo 00:00 Tools
Regretted 00:00 Tools
All you have 00:00 Tools
Chocolate Was A Boy 00:00 Tools
red film 00:00 Tools
Ashes to Ashes - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
The Wrong Truth 00:00 Tools
Bandaged by Dreams 00:00 Tools
Pitta pop 00:00 Tools
After a fashion 00:00 Tools
Red Sleep 00:00 Tools
Savior, Are You With Me? 00:00 Tools
Corridor 00:00 Tools
T.V. Woo 00:00 Tools
House of Home 00:00 Tools
Knowledge Suspended 00:00 Tools
Big Left 00:00 Tools
Little-Less Hope 00:00 Tools
Buoy - Remix 00:00 Tools
Lunette 00:00 Tools
Angel`s Got A Lotus 00:00 Tools
My Mrs. T 00:00 Tools
Saviour, Are You With Me ? 00:00 Tools
Ashes to Ashes, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Mustard Grapes 00:00 Tools
It`s His Birthday This Year 00:00 Tools
Bestial Cluster - Alternative Edits 00:00 Tools
Seafall 00:00 Tools
Milk The Filthy 00:00 Tools
Stereoscope 00:00 Tools
Drawings We Have Lived 04:49 Tools
Antisocial Again ? 00:00 Tools
Bestial Cluster (alternative edits) 00:00 Tools
A Boy With Wings 00:00 Tools
Liver and Lungs - Alternative Mix 00:00 Tools
Palms for Lester 00:00 Tools
Outline ... Sandcastle 00:00 Tools
Ashes to Ashes (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Traveler's Diary - Meets Mick Karn 00:00 Tools
Sail and Wind 00:00 Tools
open letter to the heart of diaphora 00:00 Tools
The Never Forgotten Night We Met The Puppeteer 00:00 Tools
Drawings We Have Lived - Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Honey Sweating 00:00 Tools
Liver and Lungs (alternative mix) 00:00 Tools
Liver & Lungs 00:00 Tools
Primitive 00:00 Tools
chocolate 00:00 Tools
Dialogue I, II, III 00:00 Tools
Drawings We Have Lived (unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Little - Less Hope (feat. David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Bestial Cluster (Alternative Edits) [feat.Richard Barbieri, David Torn & Steve Jansen] 00:00 Tools
Snail Hair Dune 00:00 Tools
This is the Abduction Scene 00:00 Tools
Edge Of Charm 00:00 Tools
Bandaged by Dreams (feat.David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Warrior Horsemen of the Spirit Thundering Over Hills of Doubt To a Place of Hope 00:00 Tools
08_chocolate 00:00 Tools
Res Majuko 00:00 Tools
Feta Funk (feat.Richard Barbieri, David Torn & Natacha Atlas) 00:00 Tools
Ashes To Ashes - a tribute in memory 00:00 Tools
City of the Dead 00:00 Tools
Liver and Lungs (Alternative Mix) [feat.David Torn & Steve Jansen] 00:00 Tools
TFP [Yoshihiro Hanno] 00:00 Tools
Electric Monkey [Claudio Chianura] 00:00 Tools
Forgotten Puppeteer 00:00 Tools
Angel's In The Asylum [Richard Barbieri] 00:00 Tools
Big Left [Ryuichi Sakamoto] 00:00 Tools
Knowledge Suspended [Claudio Chianura] 00:00 Tools
Wear it Well 00:00 Tools
Sandcastle (Outline) 00:00 Tools
Re-Nil [Yoshihiro Hanno] 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Mastock [Paul Wong] 00:00 Tools
Saday, Maday (feat.Richard Barbieri, David Torn & Steve Jansen) 00:00 Tools
Buoy (remix) 00:00 Tools
Red Sleep (feat.David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Puppeteer Night [David Torn] 05:26 Tools
Corridor (feat.David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Buoy (feat. David Sylvian) 00:00 Tools
Primitive Water 00:00 Tools
Drawings We Have Lived (feat.Richard Barbieri & David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Saday Maday 00:00 Tools
There Was Not Anything But Nothing (feat.David Torn) 00:00 Tools
House of Home (feat.David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Angel's In The Asylum 00:00 Tools
The Edge Of Charm 00:00 Tools
When Love Walks In (feat. David Sylvian) 00:00 Tools
TFP 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Mastock 00:00 Tools
Electric Monkey 00:00 Tools
Puppeteer Night 00:00 Tools
Re-Nil 00:00 Tools
Travler's Diary 00:00 Tools
Traveler's Diary 00:00 Tools
All You Have (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Traveler's Diary (Meets Mick Karn) 00:00 Tools
Beginning To Melt 00:00 Tools
Of & About (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
T.V.Woo 00:00 Tools
Liver And Lungs [Alternative Mix] 00:00 Tools
Sound of Waves 00:00 Tools
The Red Film 00:00 Tools
Tribal Down 00:00 Tools
Dream the reason 00:00 Tools
Bestial Cluster [Alternative Edits] 00:00 Tools
Sensitive (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Outline...Sandcastle 00:00 Tools
3 - TV WOO 00:00 Tools
The Sad Velvet Breath of Sum.. 00:00 Tools
Dialouge L LL LLL 00:00 Tools
Big Left (Remixed by Mick Karn & Ryuichi Sakamoto) 00:00 Tools
Angel's In The Asylum (Remix By Richard Barbieri) 00:00 Tools
Yes i've been to France 00:00 Tools
David Sylvian & Mick Karn - Buoy 00:00 Tools
2 - PRESENCE 00:00 Tools
Long Tales, Tall Shadows 00:00 Tools
J.B.Meknee 00:00 Tools
Drawings We Have Lived [#] 00:00 Tools
Jump 00:00 Tools
Big Wheels in Shanty Town 00:00 Tools
Knowledge Suspended (Claudio Chianura) 00:00 Tools
Big Left (Ryuichi Sakamoto) 00:00 Tools
Re-Nil (Yoshihiro Hanno) 00:00 Tools
Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie cover) 00:00 Tools
Forgotton Puppeteer 00:00 Tools
First Impressions 00:00 Tools
Dalis Car 00:00 Tools
Electric Monkey (Remixed by Mick Karn & Claudio Chianura) 01:13 Tools
9 - JB MECKNEE 00:00 Tools
There Was Not Anything But 00:00 Tools
Puppeteer Night (Remix By David Torn) 00:00 Tools
A Boy Wit Wings 00:00 Tools
Savior, Are You With Me 00:00 Tools
Textures 00:00 Tools
TFP (Yoshihiro Hanno) 00:00 Tools
Electric Monkey (Claudio Chianura) 00:00 Tools
The Never Forgotten Night We Met The Puppeteer (David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Mastock (Paul Wong) 00:00 Tools
Puppeteer Night (David Torn) 00:00 Tools
Angel's In The Asylum (Richard Barbieri) 00:00 Tools
"Bestial Cluster" 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Mastock (Remix By Paul Wong) 00:00 Tools
Dali's Car 00:00 Tools
5 - YES IVE BEEN TO FRANCE 00:00 Tools
3-Milk The Filthy 00:00 Tools
4 - CONFABULATION 00:00 Tools
TFP (Remix By Yoshihiro Hanno) 00:00 Tools
Trance 00:00 Tools
Big Left (Remix By Ryuichi Sakamoto) 00:00 Tools
10 - ANTISOCIAL AGAIN 00:00 Tools
Buoy (featuring David Sylvian) 00:00 Tools
Torn Solo 00:00 Tools
YES, I'VE BEEN TO FRENCE 00:00 Tools
Dialogue I II III 00:00 Tools
Electric Monkey (Remix By Claudio Chianura) 00:00 Tools
Weather The Windmill (Metronomy Late Night Tales) 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Mastock (Remixed by Mick Karn & Paul Wong) 00:00 Tools
End Gag 00:00 Tools
serves tou rice 00:00 Tools
Show 00:00 Tools
Knowledge Suspended - Claudio Chianura 00:00 Tools
Re-Nil (Remix By Yoshihiro Hanno) 00:00 Tools
Knowledge Suspended (Remixed by Mick Karn & Claudio Chianura) 00:00 Tools
Beginning To Melt (Mick Karn) 00:00 Tools
There Was Not Anything But Not 00:00 Tools
Sensitive - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Outline Sandcastle 00:00 Tools
The Night Gives Birth 00:00 Tools
mick karn / chocolate 00:00 Tools
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An English musician (born July 24, 1958, died January 4, 2011), multi-instrumentalist & songwriter, most noted as the bassist for the 1980s art rock band Japan (1974 to 1982). Karn was born Anthony Michaelides in Nicosia, Cyprus before emigrating to London, England at the age of 3. He has worked with noted New Wave artists Gary Numan, Kate Bush, Midge Ure and Joan Armatrading as well as being a member of Dali's Car with Peter Murphy of the gothic post-punk group, Bauhaus. In the 1990s he worked with artist David Torn as well as a number of Japanese musicians, including the band NiNa. He has a distinctive playing style and sound on the fretless bass guitar which makes his playing immediately recognizable not to mention highly influential. With his contribution Japan is often considered one of the most unique and greatest groups of the late glam rock to new wave era. After Mick's first solo release Titles in 1982, Pete Townshend claimed that "Mick was by far the best bassist in the UK", and so invited him to join him in a super group to celebrate the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Karn played the aluminium neck Travis Bean bass in all Japan albums up to Gentlemen Take Polaroids. In 1981 he moved onto the renowned Wal basses and bought two fretless mk1, one with Tulipwood facings and the other being a Cherry solidbody. Mick recorded Japan's last studio album Tin Drum with the Wal and has continued to use them, helping further their popularity worldwide. It is interesting to note that Karn's mastery of the fretless bass,with his own unique sound,eclectic voicings,and oft strange intervals,belies the fact that he has little to no knowledge of music theory. "I don't know about being the best, I still can't read music so I'm certainly not technically the best, I don't even know what the notes are on a bass. Sometimes I'm told I can't play that note with this chord, to which I reply: well, why not if it sounds good? The best? No, but having never heard anyone play in a similar way, I'd certainly consider perhaps being the most original!" Still,one can only guess at the inner working of an artists' gears as they turn and propel an art that can not be denied. After all,can a colorblind painter be judged by his choices in hues? Is not the final product,as well as the act,the sufficient sum? Mick Karn has carved out for himself an incredible career with thousands of adoring fans,students of his unique style on the bass, and the respect of his peers. Suggested listening: With Dalis Car "The Waking Hour" With Gary Numan "Dance", "Telekon" With David Torn "Door X" With Torn/Karn/Bozzio "Polytown" With Japan Anything! With Rain Tree Crow "Rain Tree Crow" With Yoshihiro Hanno "Liquid Glass" With JBK "-ism", "Playing In a Room with People" Mick Karn "Bestial Cluster","The Tooth Mother","Love's Glove","More Better Different" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.