Trouble in the Middle East

 

I know there is a great deal of controversy surrounding Bryn Jones & his Muslimgauze project. There have been denunciations of his work as anti-semitic but I must point out that it is not anti-semitic. It could more correctly be classified as anti-Zionist. 

 

I call bullshit on the religious theory propogated by Judeo-Christian zealots that Adolph Hitler leveled the Jewish karma for killing the Christian Messiah & that the atrocities enacted on the Jewish people by the Nazis somehow justified the creation of Israel. We have seen how things go for a native culture when Colonialist powers seize land already inhabited (as Anglo-America vs the Indigenous Peoples). Well, there were already people living in Palestine at the time of the creation of the Zionist State of Israel. It was obviously not going to go well, & indeed, the problems in the Middle East have only escalated since the days of Muslimgauze.

I found Muslimgauze because I, too, believed that a great injustice had been carried out in the knee-jerk reaction by the world's populace in general to the horrors of the Holocaust. Creating Israel out of Palestine was not the way to go about things. Two wrongs don't make a right. 

 

I started buying all the Staalplaat & Soleilmoon releases of Muslimgauze as they became available. Vinyl-On-Demand recently released Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-1988, an 11 CD box set covering (obviously) the years 1983 - 1988. I would like to concentrate on a different time period. The mid 90s were the highlights for my personal likes. I would like to share these particular five.

First up, we have a CD recorded at Abraham Mosque, Manchester March 5, 1994, written in response to the Februry 25, 1994 tragedy in Hebron, West Bank, Palestine. Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli radical, opened fire on a large number of Palestinian Muslims who had gathered to pray inside the Ibrahimi Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The attack left 29 people dead, several as young as twelve, & 125 wounded. 

 

Muslimgauze - Hebron Massacre, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 24 CD, 1994.
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Hebron Massacre 

 

 

 

 

Muslimgauze - Arab Quarter 2xCD, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 44CD, 1996.

CD 1: Arab Quarter -  

  
Anti Arab Media Censor Part 1    
Anti Arab Media Censor Part 2    
Yassin Ayyash Part 1    
Yassin Ayyash Part 2    
Arab Jerusalem    
Extract 1    
Extract 2    
Extract 3    
Extract 4    
Palestine is Our Izlamic Land Part 1    
Palestine is Our Izlamic Land Part 2    

CD2:Eleven Minarets -

Eleven Minarets Part 1    
Eleven Minarets Part 2    
Eleven Minarets Part 3    
Eleven Minarets Part 4    
Eleven Minarets Part 5    
Eleven Minarets Part 6    
Eleven Minarets Part 7    
Eleven Minarets Part 8
Eleven Minarets Part 9    
Eleven Minarets Part 10    
Eleven Minarets Part 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muslimgauze - Return of Black September, Staalplaat Muslimlim 004, 1996.

Return of Black September    
Libya    
Thugghee    
Remix of Thugghee (actually a remix of Return of Black September)
Remix of Opiate & Mullah

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muslimgauze - Azzazin, Staalplaat MUSLIMLIM 003, 1996.

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Muslimgauze - Sandtrafikar, Staalplaat Muslimlim 011, 1997.

Sandtrafikar 1    
Sandtrafikar 2    
God & I    
Baku Oil Field     1
Baku Oil Field     2
Uskudar
Re-mix by The Rootsman

Enjoy,
NØ