Everything Contemporary Music Tends to Flee From: Passionate, Political & Palpably Angry
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Track:Infidel (Veil of Peace mix)
"Muslimgauze":http://mog.com/music/Muslimgauze was everything contemporary music tends to flee from: passionate, political, palpably angry, difficult, disturbing, utterly uncompromising and obsessively experimental - it's difficult to think of anyone who has managed to be more consistently and wilfully non-commercial than "Muslimgauze.":http://mog.com/music/MuslimgauzeMuslingauze was the moniker electronic music compser Bryn Jones used for his work. He first began making music in 1982, under the alias of E.g Oblique Graph, to protest the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He was a staunch supporter of Hamas and the PLO, and he believed Palestine should be "freed from the Zionists." Born in Manchester, England, United Kingdom, he never visited the Middle East, explaining, "I don't think you can visit an occupied land. It's the principle. Not until it's free again."
In 1990, the Australian record label Extreme signed him, which he left in 1994 for Dutch label Staalplaat and its sister American label Soleilmoon because his releases were not being released as promptly as he had wanted and he was also not receiving payment, and since he had put forth seven releases since he signed, money was becoming a problem. Strongly against the use of computers and samplers in music, Jones always recorded his music with old analog equipment, which were never from the United States or Japan. He would record himself playing various Middle Eastern instruments and record voices of Middle Eastern people from old tapes. Jones's music was heavily percussive; a review of a rare live performance notes that Jones used a "backing DAT tape with pretty harsh, rhythmic textures, his sort of patented spiralling hypnotic beat, to which he played on two or three different drums with great skill." He actually never looped his music; it was all recorded live, and edited/mixed afterwards. The end result was very analogue - often loud and staticky, with sudden changes in volume. Jones was never concerned with how many copies of his record were sold, or even how much listeners enjoyed his music, but rather how original his music was.The Muslimgauze discography is vast. He released over 90 original albums on 32 different record labels, creating nearly 2,000 original songs. Every piece of music was inspired by a political event or fact. There have been several repressings of his work, seeing as, after 1994, most of his albums were released in limited editions of usually 200 to 1,000. Due to the repressings, he has 180 releases at the time of this writing, but the number is rapidly increasing.Jones disliked live shows and was rarely asked to do them, which is why Muslimgauze performances were so rare. He has always stated that he never had time to listen to other people's music, although in a 1992 interview with Impulse Magazine, he mentioned that he enjoys traditional music of Japan, the Middle East, and India, as well as the works of artists such as "Can,":http://mog.com/music/Can "Throbbing Gristle,":http://mog.com/music/Throbbing_Gristle Wire, and "Faust.":http://mog.com/music/Faust However, despite a few collaborations, Jones didn't trust anyone when it came to remixing his music. On Wednesday, December 30, 1998, Bryn was rushed to the hospital in Manchester with an unknown illness. He had a rare fungal infection in his bloodstream, and he had to be heavily sedated all the time. He contracted pneumonia & his body eventually shut down, dying on Thursday, January 14, 1999. He was 38 years old.See http://www.the-edge.ws/muslimgauze/ or wiki for more info.
In 1990, the Australian record label Extreme signed him, which he left in 1994 for Dutch label Staalplaat and its sister American label Soleilmoon because his releases were not being released as promptly as he had wanted and he was also not receiving payment, and since he had put forth seven releases since he signed, money was becoming a problem. Strongly against the use of computers and samplers in music, Jones always recorded his music with old analog equipment, which were never from the United States or Japan. He would record himself playing various Middle Eastern instruments and record voices of Middle Eastern people from old tapes. Jones's music was heavily percussive; a review of a rare live performance notes that Jones used a "backing DAT tape with pretty harsh, rhythmic textures, his sort of patented spiralling hypnotic beat, to which he played on two or three different drums with great skill." He actually never looped his music; it was all recorded live, and edited/mixed afterwards. The end result was very analogue - often loud and staticky, with sudden changes in volume. Jones was never concerned with how many copies of his record were sold, or even how much listeners enjoyed his music, but rather how original his music was.The Muslimgauze discography is vast. He released over 90 original albums on 32 different record labels, creating nearly 2,000 original songs. Every piece of music was inspired by a political event or fact. There have been several repressings of his work, seeing as, after 1994, most of his albums were released in limited editions of usually 200 to 1,000. Due to the repressings, he has 180 releases at the time of this writing, but the number is rapidly increasing.Jones disliked live shows and was rarely asked to do them, which is why Muslimgauze performances were so rare. He has always stated that he never had time to listen to other people's music, although in a 1992 interview with Impulse Magazine, he mentioned that he enjoys traditional music of Japan, the Middle East, and India, as well as the works of artists such as "Can,":http://mog.com/music/Can "Throbbing Gristle,":http://mog.com/music/Throbbing_Gristle Wire, and "Faust.":http://mog.com/music/Faust However, despite a few collaborations, Jones didn't trust anyone when it came to remixing his music. On Wednesday, December 30, 1998, Bryn was rushed to the hospital in Manchester with an unknown illness. He had a rare fungal infection in his bloodstream, and he had to be heavily sedated all the time. He contracted pneumonia & his body eventually shut down, dying on Thursday, January 14, 1999. He was 38 years old.See http://www.the-edge.ws/muslimgauze/ or wiki for more info.
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