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Colin Bass

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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorColin Bass – bassist, songwriter, record producer and radio presenter. Has worked in a wide variety of music fields. From the legendary British progressive-rock group Camel to the pioneer world-music group 3 Mustaphas 3 and beyond, recording with international artists such as top Malian singing diva Oumou Sangare, the veteran Algerian maestro of the oriental piano Maurice el Medioni and Zimbabwe's First Lady of the Mbira Stella Chiweshe among others, and producing albums for New York Klezmer revolutionaries the Klezmatics, Egyptian wedding king Ali Hassan Kuban, the amazing Javanese funky gamelan orchestra Sambasunda and more, as well as his own projects including several solo albums and a series of productions recorded in Indonesia. He is also the presenter of a weekly radio show on RBB Radio Multikulti and WDR/Funkhaus Europa in Germany: "Sabah am Sonntag", playing rarities, curiosities and old and new favourites from around the world.

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Member Since: 2/17/2006
Band Website: colinbass.com
Record Label: Kartini Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording "Sambasunda" - adventures in West Java

The Making of "Rahwana's Cry".In January 2004 I travelled to West Java, Indonesia to record an album with the amazing-modern-gamelan-orchestra-with-attitude, Sambasunda. Here's the first part of the s...
Posted by Colin Bass on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:28:00 PST