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History
First started playing professionally in 1968 as guitarist with a band called The Krisis, playing the UK club and ballroom circuit, after which he switched to bass guitar and formed The Daisy Showband with guitarist Ian Gomm before joining Velvet Opera in 1970 with whom he made his first recordings for Spark Records.
In 1971 he joined an incarnation of the 60 chart-topping group The Foundations and spent a year playing the cabaret clubs mostly in northern England.
In 1971 former band-mate Ian Gomm, who had since become a member of Brinsley Schwarz, introduced Colin to Ernie Graham, formerly of Eire Apparent and, together with guitarist Jonathan Glemser, they formed the band Clancy. The band became part of London growing Pub-Rock scene and briefly signed with Island Records but were dropped after differences with producer Muff Winwood.
Shortly afterwards the band signed with Warner Brothers and recorded two albums: eriously Speaking (1974) and very Day (1975). The line-up on both was: Bass (bass, vocals), Ernie Graham (guitar, vocals), Gasper Lawal (percussion) Dave Vasco (guitar), Dave Skinner (keyboards, vocals) and Barry Ford (drums, vocals).
Clancy split in 1976 and Colin joined Steve Hillage, who was putting together a band to promote the album on a six-month tour of Europe and the USA. The line-up included ex-Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker.
In 1977 Colin was invited by American saxophonist and composer Jim Cuomo, who had occasionally played with Clancy, to participate in his musical oe Babylon at the Edinburgh Festival. The band from the show included pianist Ollie Marland and drummer Miguel Olivares and this quartet became a project known as the Casual Band. Olivares was later replaced by ex-Back Door drummer Tony Hicks. Recordings were made with producer Tom Newman but were never released.
In 1979, Steve Hillage tour manager Laurie Small introduced Colin to British progressive-rock band Camel. The line-up at the time was Andrew Latimer (guitar, vocals), Andy Ward (drums) and Kit Watkins and Jan Schelhaas (keyboards). There followed two albums Can See Your House From Here (1979) and ude (1980) and respective international tours.
In 1981 at the end of the ude tour, Andy Ward health problems led to Andrew Latimer dissolving of the band. Colin relocated to Paris where he recorded an album and performed live with old colleague Jim Cuomo.
Returning to the UK in 1983 he took up a teaching post, played sessions and club and pub gigs with various line-ups until Andrew Latimer invited him to rejoin Camel for the 1984 tationary Traveller tour. In the same year he started to play with the Anglo-Ghanaian band Orchestra Jazira, which led to his induction in the pioneer world-music group 3 Mustaphas 3, who renamed him as Sabah Habas Mustapha.
Between 1985 and 1991 the 3 Mustaphas 3 recorded four full albums and sundry singles and EPs and established a cult following for their live performances, touring in the USA, Europe, Japan and also in the then Soviet-bloc countries of East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria.
When the 3 Mustaphas 3 stopped activities in 1991 Colin went to Indonesia where, over the next ten years he recorded three solo albums with Indonesian musicians under the name of Sabah Habas Mustapha. The first, enpasar Moon (1994), was recorded in Jakarta and explored the sounds of the popular music style Dangdut.
The title song became a major hit in Indonesia in the form of a cover-version by a singer from the Philippines called Maribeth and was subsequently recorded by over 40 different Indonesian artists.
In 1997 Colin founded the Kartini Music record label whose first release was another Sabah Habas Mustapha record, alan Kopo, recorded in Bandung and this time influenced by the sounds of the west Javanese province of Sunda. The title cut from that record is played as pre-show music for the nighttime fireworks/water spectacular IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth at Epcot, located in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
At the same time, the 90 saw a rejuvenated Camel back on the scene after a long period of inactivity due to a protracted legal dispute with previous management. In 1991 Andrew Latimer, now relocated to California, invited Colin to participate in the recording of ust and Dreams, the first release by his own label Camel Productions, which was followed by a world tour in 1992 with the line-up of Latimer, Bass and Mickey Simmonds (keyboards) and Paul Burgess (drums).
Between then and 2003 Camel released another three studio albums and undertook subsequent tours all documented with live albums except, as yet, the 2003 arewell tour.
In 1998 Kartini Music released Colin first album under the name Colin Bass: n Outcast of the Islands. Recorded in Poland and California and featuring Andrew Latimer on guitar, the then Camel drummer Dave Stewart and a number of Polish musicians, the album gathered critical praise and helped establish his reputation in Poland. Subsequent tours produced two live albums: ive at Polskie Radio 3 (1999) and ive Vol.2: Acoustic Songs (2000).
2000 also saw the release of another Sabah Habas Mustapha album recorded in Bandung, Indonesia : o La Li. It further explored the sounds of the Sundanese region and featured again the multi-instrumentalist Ismet Ruchimat and several musicians from his group Sambasunda. o La Li won wide critical acclaim and was nominated for a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award.
In 2003 Kartini Music released the second Colin Bass studio album, n The Meantime. Alongside these activities, Colin has over the years added his bass-playing skills to a number of albums by internationally acclaimed artists such as top Malian singing star Oumou Sangare, the veteran Algerian maestro of the oriental piano Maurice el Medioni and Zimbabwe's First Lady of the Mbira Stella Chiweshe.
As a record producer he has made album productions with a number of artists including New York Klezmer band The Klezmatics, Egyptian wedding king Ali Hassan Kuban, the Javanese urban gamelan orchestra Sambasunda, Madagascan pop group Tarika and the German singer-songwriter Jenny Weisgerber.
A resident of Berlin, Germany since 1988 he has since 1994 been writing and presenting a weekly radio show for RBB Radio Multikulti and WDR Funkhaus Europa in Germany: abah am Sonntag, presenting musical rarities and curiosities from around the world. He is also a recognized expert on Indonesian Pop music, giving talks and contributing articles on the subject to he Rough Guide to World Music (Penguin Books), "Auge & Ohr : Ear & Eye" (neue zeitschrift fr musik), "Anders Reisen: Indonesien" (Rowohlt) and the magazines Froots and Songlines. According to his official website he is currently working on a third solo album as well as producing a second album for Jenny Weisgerber and touring with American guitarist Prince Robinson & Camel-drummer Denis Clement in a new powertrio called R.B.C.
Discography
As Colin Bass
1998 - An Outcast Of The Islands
1998 - As Far As I Can See EP
1999 - Denpasar Moon EP
1999 - Live At Polskie Radio 3 2 CD
1999 - Pozna Pie Live In Concert VHS
2000 - Live Vol. 2 - Acoustic Songs
2002 - Gently Kindly
2003 - In The Meantime
2003 - An Outcast Of The Islands Remastered + 3 bonus tracks
2005 - Planetarium - With Jzef Skrzek
2006 - In The Meantime - Remastered + 5 bonus tracks
As Sabah Habas Mustapha
1994 - Denpasar Moon
1998 - Jalan Kopo
1999 - So La Li
2004 - Denpasar Moon 2004 remastered + bonus
With Camel
1979 - I Can See Your House From Here
1981 - Nude
1984 - Pressure Points Live In Concert
1991 - Dust and Dreams
1993 - Never Let Go Live 2 CD
1996 - Harbour Of Tears
1997 - On The Road 1981
1998 - Coming Of Age - Live CD and DVD
1999 - Rajaz
2001 - The Paris Collection Live
2002 - A Nod And A Wink
With 3 Mustaphas 3
1987 - Shopping
1990 - Soup of the Century
1991 - Friends, Fiends & Fronds
2001 - Play Musty For Me
Links
Colin Bass official website
Colin Bass official MySpace
Kartini Music record label
JWP entertainment company
(Italian) Interview with Colin Bass
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Camel
Andrew Latimer Colin Bass Denis Clement Ton Scherpenzeel
Doug Ferguson Peter Bardens Andy Ward Richard Sinclair Mel Collins Jan Schelhaas Kit Watkins Paul Burgess Dave Stewart Guy LeBlanc
Studio albums
Camel Mirage Music Inspired by The Snow Goose Moonmadness Rain Dances Breathless I Can See Your House from Here Nude The Single Factor Stationary Traveller Dust and Dreams Harbour of Tears Rajaz A Nod and a Wink
Live albums
Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall A Live Record Pressure Points On the Road 1972 Never Let Go On the Road 1982 On the Road 1981 Coming of Age Gods of Light '73-'75 The Paris Collection
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Steve Hillage
Supporting musicians
Andy Anderson Colin Bass Joe Blocker Tim Blake Christian Boule Basil Brooks Clive Bunker Malcolm Cecil Don Cherry Lindsay Cooper Paul Francis Miquette Giraudy Phil Hodge Mike Howlett Larry Karush John MacKenzie Sonja Malkine Reggie McBride Didier Malherbe Pierre Moerlen Roger Powell Curtis Robertson Jr Jean-Philippe Rykiel Dave Stewart Kasim Sulton Jon Wilcox
Studio albums
Fish Rising L Motivation Radio Green Open Rainbow Dome Musick Aura For to Next Light in the Sky
Live albums
Live Herald BBC Radio 1 Live Live at Deeply Vale Festival '78
Compilations
Introducing Steve Hillage Fish Rising Box Paper Sleeve Box, Vol. 2
DVDs & Videos
Germany 77 (live) Live in England 1979 (DVD) Live at the Gong Unconvention 2006
Associated acts
Uriel Khan Gong The Orb System 7
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