"Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and never traveled to the Middle East. His recordings as Muslimgauze, however, qualified him as one of the Western artists most explicitly slanted in favor of the Palestinian liberation movement. Since the Manchester native’s works were instrumental, most of the political statement was inherent in the packaging: witness titles such as Fatah Guerrilla, Return of Black September, Hebron Massacre, Vote Hezbollah, United States of Islam, and The Rape of Palestine. Jones’s output was so idiosyncratic and prolific that he would remix anything he was given to suit his purposes and recorded an album almost every week.
Jones could have been a potentially controversial figure if his releases were available in anything except extremely limited editions—usually less than one thousand copies of each title. Despite their lack of prominence, Jones’s blend of found-sound Middle Eastern and South Asian atmospheres with heavily phased drones and colliding rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise and electronica underground. The Muslimgauze project ended tragically in 1999 when Jones died suddenly of a rare blood disease. A number of posthumous releases including Lo-Fi India Abuse (partially a collaboration with the dub collective Systemwide) and the 9-disc Box Of Silk And Dogs soon followed." -John Bush for allmusic.com
Label: Soleilmoon Recordings – SOL 90 CD Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 11 Jun 1999 Genre: Electronic Style: Tribal, Dub, Experimental
Tracklist
1 Algerian Resistance 12:56 2 Mint Tea With Gadaffi 7:54 3 Hand Of Fatima 11:08 4 Youseff My Medina 8:22 5 Mustaffa 9:36 6 Arms Of Your Desire 10:37
Companies, etc. Designed At – Plazm
Credits Photography By – André Thijssen
Notes Limited edition release 1000 units, made in USA
"Say, I fly for refuge unto the Lord of the Daybreak, that he may deliver me from the mischief of those things which he hath created." —The Koran; The Chapter of the Daybreak
Pressed By – Orlake Records Credits Written-By – Bryn Jones Notes Side one is dedicated to the Occupied Lands of Afghanistan and Palestine. Side two is dedicated to all dissidents from the Soviet Union.
1 Wish Of The Flayed 4:14 2 Shadow Of Hope Diminishing 11:10 3 Isfahanic Sheikh 12:42 4 Anti And A AK-47 1:55 5 Muta Safavid 7:58 6 Hafizz Maidan 2:49 7 Lozenge Motif 2:46 8 Abode Of Turquoize 4:31 9 Rust Blue Qashqa 4:41
Credits Artwork By – Mo Edited By [Convertion Analogic To Digital] – Steven Wilson Engineer [Audio Engineer Assistant For The Correction Of Sound] – Ty Hodson Recorded By – Bryn Jones
Notes Recorded on Sunday June 2nd 1996. This album was given on cassette to Steven Wilson the day after it was recorded and was never sent to any label. Tracks 1 and 9 previously released (track 9 in an edited version) on "Tajik And Persian Blind" (CD2 of the set Fatah Guerrilla) as follows: Wish Of The Flayed = Shishla Nain Royal Bidjar Rust Blue Qashqa = Imam Shamil 1837
Credits Artwork By – Mo Liner Notes – Ibrahim Khider Mastered By – Josh Derry Remix – Muslimgauze Research [Music Archivists] – Joost Langeveld, Laurent Diouf
Notes Limited edition of 210 copies in special recycled cardboard sleeves. 100 copies sold on Arabbox fansite (with an arabic woodstamp printed on each copies) + 110 copies sold on Soleilmoon Records (Fathom version without woodstamp but with a bonus sticker designed by Bryn Jones).
All tracks are remixes of Unitone HiFi's 'Wickedness Increased'. Recorded in 1996.
Credits Recorded By, Mixed By – Bryn Jones Notes 18 unreleased tracks. Released as a digital download on Bandcamp & Soundcloud. Originally intended as a cassette only release for Dizzy Positivity Recordings 1999. DAT transfer : September 2014. Track 1 was released on CD in 1999 on the Marconi Point compilation (Iris Light Records).
