Each Eye a Path [Import]

Mick Karn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Fulfill / Artless
• ASIN: B000057H4S
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #525,137 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Up To Nil

2. The Salmon Of Knowledge

3. Latin Mastock

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

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Introvert album from maestro bass player, April 19, 2001

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This review is from: Each Eye a Path (Audio CD)

Mick Karn is a genius, IMHO. And one of the most remarkable, unique-sounding (fretless) bass guitar players around. It's been a while since he's released a solo album, and this one is a little bit of a surprise. the compositions are very introverted, and the bass is not in the foreground (unlike on "Bestial Cluster" and "The Tooth Mother"). Atmospheric, deep, mostly instrumental music; there are vocals on only two tracks (the first and third track). Mick appears to want to express rather than impress with this album. For me, the album holds the middle between Mick's earlier "Dreams of Reason produce monsters" and "Liquid Glass". My favorite piece of the album is "Forgotten Puppeteer".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Different, subtle and powerful., April 12, 2005

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This review is from: Each Eye a Path (Audio CD)

Mick Karn's "Each Eye a Path" is a very different album, having spent the past several years immersed in collaborative efforts, Karn had been putting together material on his own without a substantial supporting cast-- Steve Jansen joins on a few tracks and there's a couple scant contributions by someone named Maya and Apache 61, but other than that, its largely a effort.

I should not that four several years I barely ever listened to this one, but either my tastes changed or my perception of this change, as its now my favorite of Mick Karn's solo records.

The piece has the feel of being very much meticulously assembled in the studio-- its a dark, mysterious record, take opener "Up to Nil", one of the only vocal pieces on the record with its croaked vocal and churning bassline, weird electronic noises in the background and a driving implied rhythm, even for Karn, its unusual.

This consistently dark mood contrasts pretty heavily against Karn's last solo effort (1995's "The Tooth Mother", which was full of energy and up-front bass), but while the last one had the best bass playing by Karn, this one's got the best songwriting-- the two vocal tracks are both superb, the compulsive rhythms of "Up to Nil" contrasts against the dark churn of "Latin Mastock" (the latter features a beautiful lead bass over piano lengthy first movement/introduction). Ditto for clarinet and keys piece "The Forgotten Puppeteer"-- coming back to the idea from 1987's "Dreams of Reason" of Mick Karn as a composer not just a bassist-- this one features no bass, but a beautiful piano passage over which delicate clarinet lines arise and recede. In fact, compositional strength is high on this one with pieces like "Serves You Rice" (an organ/bass duet) and "The Night We Never Met" being totally effecting. But for bass, check out the jaw dropping "Angel's Got a Lotus", which reminds us just how brilliant of a player he is-- its both aggressive and up front and subtle at the same time.

This album is really quite uncanny and stunning, and its full of subtlety and takes time to grow on you, but its definitely worth the journey. Recommended.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't Pack the Punch of his Previous Work, May 13, 2004

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This album is not nearly as solid or impressive as his previous albums (Titles, Bestial Cluster, Tooth Mother) What it sounds like is what it is: a collection of tracks collected over the span of a few years and not an album conceived as a whole. The production is lackluster and most of the tracks seem like outakes, experiments or demos. Not a bad album, just disappointing relative to his prior grand pieces of work.