EACH EYE A PATH

mick karn

Cat. No.MPCD12

MEDIUM PRE-RELEASE DATE 10.00

OFFICIAL UK RELEASE DATE 02.01

OFFICIAL US RELEASE DATE 03.01
 

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vocal / instrumental

a selection of tracks written and arranged

between 1995 & 1999

mick karn

 

 
Each eye a path consists of 10 tracks written, arranged and recorded between 1995 & 1999 by Mick Karn.

Two of the pieces feature Mick’s lead vocals and almost all the instruments are played by him. The only other

Musicians involved are Mieko Shimizu (aka Apache 61) who played organ on, and mixed, ‘serves you rice’,

and Steve Jansen who mixed all of the other tracks, played drums on one and programmed various percussion

and samples on several others. Both contributed to some arrangements.

 

Mick : “ The ’95 - ’99 time period was full of upheaval for me, which is one of the reasons this album took so long

to complete. Other setbacks include my computer being stolen along with all music stored inside, and tapes

destroyed by machines.

I began writing when I moved to San Francisco full

of optimism and expecting to leave hardly any

pause in it’s release after my last album ‘The Tooth

Mother’. I couldn’t have been more wrong, and as

the optimism faded, so too the music began to take

on a somewhat darker, more inward looking path.

Every step forward seemed to be riddled with

reasons for not continuing, but gradually the music

evolved with each attempt. The tracks that have

survived are probably the most personally

revealing I’ve ever recorded as they’re entirely

written about particular people I’ve known in my

life. Some were just passing through on their own

journeys,while others I regrettably let slip away and so were lost. It’s also full of the realisation that those very

people will probably never be aware of any music written for them. I’ve dedicated this cd to my cat ‘Kashmir’ who

died in May 2000. She’d been my constant companion during all of my solo recordings to date, and so also

knew the experiences this album refers to. ”
Credits

      1. Up To Nil - download sample MP3 file created with SoundJam

      2. The Salmon Of Knowledge

      3. Latin Mastock - download sample MP3 file created with SoundJam

      4. The Forgotten Puppeteer

      5. My Mrs. T.

      6. Angel's Got A Lotus

      7. Serves You Rice

      8. The Night We Never Met

      9. Venus Monkey

      10. Left Big

produced and recorded Mick Karn

Mixed by Steve Jansen at Studiofobia

(except for ‘serves you rice’ mixed by Apache 61 at Studio Crow)

Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Chris Blair

Design & Art Direction : Leanda Xavian

Where applicable, only one custom made WAL bass guitar was used

WAL are at Electric wood in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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