Colin Bass
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| Background information | |
| Born |
4 May 1951 London, England |
| Genres | Progressive rock, pop rock, world music |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass, piano, keyboards, guitar |
| Labels | Kartini-Music |
| Associated acts |
Camel 3 Mustaphas 3 |
| Website | colinbass |
Colin Bass (born 4 May 1951), is an English musician, award-winning record producer and songwriter. Since 1979 he has been a member of the British progressive-rock band Camel, who, after a ten-year hiatus due to the ill-health of bandleader Andrew Latimer, returned to active touring in 2013. From 1984 to 1992 he was also a core figure in the pioneering World Music group 3 Mustaphas 3. He has also made two solo albums under his own name and three albums recorded in Indonesia under the name Sabah Habas Mustapha. The title track of the first, "Denpasar Moon", became a hugely popular song in Indonesia in the mid-1990s and has been covered by over 50 Indonesian, Malaysian, Japanese and Filipino artists. As a record producer he has worked with a diverse range of international artists including: The Klezmatics (USA), SambaSunda (Indonesia), Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird (USA) Krar Collective (Ethiopia), Etran Finatawa (Niger) and 9Bach (Wales) amongst others. As a guest artist he has appeared on albums by a number of internationally acclaimed artists including top Malian singing star Oumou Sangare, playing on all tracks of her 1993 Ko Sira album.
Bass was born in London and 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 joined Velvet Opera in 1970 with whom he made his first recordings for Spark Records.
In 1971 he joined an incarnation of the 60s chart-topping group The Foundations and spent a year playing the cabaret clubs mostly in northern England.
In 1971 he met Ernie Graham, formerly of Eire Apparent and, together with guitarist Jonathan Glemser, they formed the band Clancy. The band became part of London's growing Pub-Rock scene and briefly signed with Island Records but were dropped after differences with producer Muff Winwood.
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