Maroon in June

 

You know him. You love him. Here’s Maroon in June. 

 

Muslimgauze - Maroon repress, Staalplaat STCD084, 2002.
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Intro    
Thimble Cups of Urdu I    
Maroon of Gaza    
Harem of Dogs I    
Harem of Dogs II    
Thimble Cups of Urdu II    
Blood of Salah Jadallah I    
Stars of Golan Heights    
Blood of Salah Jadallah II

Enjoy,
NØ

Report Said

While I was reviving some long lost Meltd0wn in August, I shared Muslimgaze's Port Said that I had originally shared on DM. You can find the original EP here.

Frenz of NSS Rob has been leaving links to various Muslimgauze in the comments of daily posts. If you are looking for anything from Muslimgauze, go back & check the comments & leave a thanks to Rob if you grab something.

There is a re-issue of Port Said from 2017 that contained the extensive Report Said as well. These are tracks commissioned by the record label, remixes of the original Muslimgauze tracks.

This is the rest of the Report... 

 

Muslimgauze - Port Said/Report Said, Aquarellist aquarel38-17, 2017.
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Report Said (CD 2) -

Ionospheric Dub - A.P. (Anders Peterson)
Port Said - Bass Communion
MZmz - Dead Voices On Air
Geometric Said - Esplendor Geométrico
Port Said (iDie mix) - In Death It Ends
Lavish - Pacific 231
Port Said (QST 2015 mix) - QST
Night Train to Heliopolis - Rapoon
Horizontal (elemental mix) - Scanner
Pad Riots - Simon Crab
بورسعيد (صدى الروسية) - Velehentor
Port Sad - Troum

Enjoy,
NØ

Who Said, Port Said

 

NØ sez:
     What could be a better excuse for me to post up something by one of my favorite bands Muslimgauze, the non de guerre of Bryn Jones.

Bryn used his musick to paint a statement about the conditions in the Arab world. He used the artwork of his covers to paint a picture of rebellion. Although an outsider from Manchester, England, Bryn faithfully & honestly presented those same feeling of unrest through his music.

The ultra-prolific Bryn Jones was infatuated with the politics, music, sound, & feel of the Middle East. Almost every single release of his has sampled Middle Eastern speech, percussion, instruments, etc. to make some of the most incredible music out there, ranging from noise to dub to hip hop to ambient to.. well, whatever Port Said is.

Since this is a very limited release, I thought it would be excellent to post here. Although it is named after Egypt’s famous port, Port Said is unique among Jones’ releases in that it's one of few Muslimgauze releases with absolutely NO Middle Eastern influence. 

 

Muzlimgauze(sp) - Port Said, Audio.NL 004, 1999
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Side a -
Port Said 1

Side b -
Port Said 2

I'm having a meltd0wn, a Digital Meltd0wn,
NØ

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.

Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled

 

 

 

 

 

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

Can You See My Smile from Where You Are?

Every Muslimgauze release, all the lost RootBoy Slim, the entire Around the World Project & so, so  unbelievably muchly missed more has been resurrected. I am forever in debt to Wallace C., a follower of this here blog & interweb friend (who, don’t let anyone try to convince you differently, can be as true a friend as your face-to-face, flesh-to-flesh friends though you've never met) volunteered to try & work his Dada Data Recovery magick on my long dead Iomega.

Today I received the results of that magick by UPS.  



This boy's got his shit back!

Weird shit stirring in my brain. The last thing I uploaded to the external HD before it died was David Bowie - Blackstar September 11, 2016 at 21:20.

On a post called Alzheimers, Osteoporosis, & Incontinence I posted up in February 2013. It was a band called Common Ailments of Maturity, hence the post name. About that post, I received a comment in July 2017 from Unknown: "Hello, please can you re-up this one? :-D   Thanks a lot! I've only found the None Whatsover comp and 'Stake' sounds so rad...so curious to listen the whole album." This is the oldest request I have not been able to address until today. The only copy I had was a digital rip of the vinyl on the cursed external.

Common Ailments of Maturity - Smoldering Lunchbox, 

Extremely High Quality Records EHQ 12001, 1987.

here or at original post elsewhere (see link above)

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It is now re-uploaded. I  may never know, but, Unknown, if you somehow find that I honored your request...eventually, leave a comment. I love shit like that.


So the first song I wanted to hear was "Jawani Zindabad" by Musilgauze. Here it is to share with you all, along with its sibling songs...

Muslimgauze - A Putrid Oasis, Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 121, 2014.

Gold Kalpakcilar Dome - Part 1/2
A Putrid Oasis    
How Rustem, The Thief, Moves Through Fire    
Memsahib of Gub & Ghee    
Bilechik Mule    
Untitled    
Suttee    
Jawani Zindabad    
Sapere Aude    
Saladin Mercy    
Sulaymaniyah    
Palestine is Our Izlamic Land - Part 1    
Marseille - Part 2    
Sadaambush

Track 1 from "Alms For Iraq". Recorded in 1995, released in 2003.
Track 2 from "Galilee Stone". Recorded in 1994, previously unreleased.
Track 3 from "Sufiq". Recorded in 1997, released in 2000.
Track 4 from "Fakir Sind". Recorded in 1998, released in 1999.
Track 5 from "Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass". Recorded in 1998, released in 1999.
Track 6 from "Remixs Vol. 2". Recorded and released in 1997.
Track 7 from "Farouk Enjineer", recorded and released in 1997.
Track 8 from "Vote Hezbollah", recorded in 1992, released in 1993.
Track 9 from "Abu Nidal". Recording date unknown. Released in 1987.
Track 10 from "Gun Aramaic". Recorded in 1994/1995, released in 1995.
Track 11 from "Mazar-i-Sharif". Recorded in 1997 and released in 1998.
Track 12 from "Arab Quarter", Recorded in 1995/1996, and released in 1996.
Track 13 from "Lahore & Marseille". Recorded in 1997, released in 1998.
Track 14 from "Arabbox". Recorded in 1993, released in 2003.

CD comes with the biography, Muslimgauze: Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones by Ibrahim Khider. Limited edition of 400 copies. I was on the list for Khider's opus long before it ever saw the light of day.

Miss ya, Bryn
NØ

Elephant Round-up Side 2

400 Blows - "...If I kissed her I’d have to kill her first...", 

Illuminated Records JAMS 42, 1984.

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Stereo Side One -

Groove Jumping
Declaration of Intent (re-mixed)
Them Thar Hills
Love
Introduction

Stereo Side Two -

Conscience
For Jackie M
Lapwing Chant
Men of Divine Wind (The Kamikaze)
Perspective 3

Konstruktivits - Psykho Genetika, Third Mind Records TM02, 1983.

Side A -

Mansonik No1
Free Form Fetish
P.T.I. (Bebor Raket)
Aural Wallpaper

Side B -

Kopa
For Each of Us
Andropov ‘84
Film-O-Sonik
Mansonik 2

Lustmørd - Heresy, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL-9-CD, 1990.

Heresey Part I
Heresey Part II
Heresy Part III
Heresy Part IV
Heresy Part V
Heresy Part VI

Muslimgauze - Citadel, Extreme XCD 026, 1994.

Citadel
Dharam Hinduja
Opel
Masawi Wife & Child
Infidel
Shouf Balek
Beit Nuba
Ferdowsi

David Jackman - Sol Mara, Robot Records RR-21, 1999.

Sol Mara 1
Sol Mara 2
Sol Mara 3
Sol Mara 4

Two down & two to go,
NØ

Uzbekistan

Re-uploaded by request 10/19/2024

 

Munadjat Yulchieva (Munojot Yo'Ichiyeva) was born in 1960 in the Ferghâna Valley near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From an early age it was obvious she had a great gift as a singer. She is the leading performer of classical Uzbek music as well as its Persian-language cousin Shashmaqâm. She is famous for the unique quality of her voice & her natural charisma.

Her exquisite vocal abilities nearly resulted in her being channeled into a career as an opera singer, but she was more naturally drawn towards the slow, aching music of her own ancient culture. 

 

 

She is always accompanied by her music master, the famous rubab player, Shawqat Mirzaev (The rubab [рубоб]  is a short-necked lute whose body is carved out of a single piece of wood, with a membrane covering the hollow bowl of the sound-chamber upon which the bridge is positioned. It has three melody strings tuned in fourths, three drone strings & 11 or 12 sympathetic strings. The instrument is made from the trunk of a mulberry tree, the head from an animal skin such as goat, & the strings either gut or nylon). Her repertoire includes many of his compositions, & she usually performs with his ensemble. 

Only two recordings of her music are widely available, the first, Sufi Soul for the French label Ocora (1994) & the most recent, Munadjat Yulchieva & Ensemble  Shavkat Mirzaev  on Germany's Network/Harmonia Mundi label (1997).

This latest release has the subtitle The Haunting Voice, & indeed that she has. Her singing submerges the listener in the musical culture of Uzbekistan. Her dark vibrant tones color her unique voice. Her power of expression & her natural charisma have charmed audiences everywhere she has performed.

These recordings were made by Network in the spring of 1997 at the Studio of Uzbek State Committee of Radio & Television in Tashkent, capital of this Central Asian country. The famous rubab player & professor at the Tashkent conservatoire Shavkat Mirzaev complemented his usual ensemble with additional outstanding local soloists to be better able to present all his country’s countless instruments & styles.

 

The lutes, string instruments, & zithers played on this recording demand great concentration & skill in order to achieve the incredible glissando or vibrato effects. They are joined by flutes & percussion. The slow hypnotic build-up in the pieces ends in a dramatic climax during which the tremendous mastery of the singer & the ensemble highlight whole new facets of the melody.

On The Haunting Voice, Munadjat Yulchieva & Ensemble Shavkat Mirzaev are: Munadjat Yulchieva - vocals; Shavkat Mirzaev - rubab; Shurat Razzakov – dutar & tanbur; Malika Ziaeva - dutar; Timur Mahmudov -chang; Sabir Abdullaev - kanun; Erkin Hujamberdyev - nay; Ikram Matanov - qoshnay; & Ahmadan Dadaev - gidjak.

 Munadjat Yulchieva &Ensemble  Shavkat Mirzaev – The HauntingVoice, 

Network/Harmonia Mundi, 1997. 

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Tracklist –

Kelmady

Yer-Yer

Bachor

Guncha Yanglik

Savt-I Dugah

Laly Yaman

Omony Yer

Ranolan Masun

Ey, Dilbary Djononim

Ajam Taronalary

Galdyr Talqinchasy

Ey, Gyl

Ferghanacha Djonon

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Here's a bonus for loyal travelers. Being that Muslimgauze (Bryn Jones) is one of my all-time top acts, thought you might like this. It had limited release from Staalplaat (the release was obtained by sending a blank DAT along with a portion of the insert [which became the release's j-card] from the digipak edition of Return of Black September to Staalplaat).  It was released in 2002-2004 by Important Records but now that is no longer available either.

 

 Muslimgauze ‎– Uzbekistani Bizzare & Souk, Staalplaat ‎– S.T. DAT 004, 1996. 

Abdul's Halal

Tafkir Wa Higra

With Indian Rope

Glass Mughal

The Iranian who Foubd Allah

Harijana

Rouge Amin Fraction

Glass Mughal

Tafkir Ma Higra

Abdul’s Hala

Paper Gulag

Paper Gulag

Leboneeze

 

 

Enjoy,

NØ

England

Reuploaded 12/02/2025

 

Hopped a ferry from Belgium, thought I’d spend a few days in the balmy British Isles. I’ve been doing okay, language-wise so far, with my smattering of “Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch“, my „parle un peu français”, &  “hablo un poco español” (well, Mexican), plus most everyone so far has “English as a second language”, but I don’t know what I’m going to do in the UK (especially when I get to Scotland, damn). Might be a while before I meet anyone who speaks American.

Deciding what music to highlight from England could be like looking for some salt crystals on the strand. There are huge stars of the music world from England that don’t need any mention here. But since one of my favorites comes from jolly old Manchester, I know right where to start. Since Bryn Jones (17 June 1961–14 January 1999), a.k.a. Muslimgauze, was the kind of living-room artist who staked out his own place in the musical lexicon & didn’t really care about fame, rather concentrating on content & quantity as his forte, I will also post up some Woo, the brothers Ives who also worked from their home & valued quality & integrity above all else.

Since Bryn’s death in 1999, various labels have tried to make sure most of his output is still available. So I have tried to post up some material that is not currently in print.

I’m not really going into Muslimgauze very much. There is ample information around the Interweb if you’re interested. Four of the five releases I’m posting are from Bryn’s own Limited Editions label & Buddhist on Fire was on Bourbonese Qualk’s Recloose Organisation label.

I just wanted to comment on certain claims by ignorant people regarding Muslimgauze’s purported fascist ideology. Just because Jones decided to bring to light anti-colonialist issues , many Euro-centric anti-Muslim big mouths have railed against Muslimgauze’s music or album artwork. Jones has stated that Muslimgauze was formed in response to Operation Peace of the Galilee, Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. OPG inspired Jones to delve into the conflict's origins. This research grew into a lifelong artistic focal point. Because of his gained insight, Jones became a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, often dedicating recordings to the Palestinian Liberation Organization & a free Palestine. Jones's research expanded to encompass other conflict-ridden, predominantly Muslim countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya, Iran, & Iraq. He concluded that Western economic greed for natural resources & strategic military/political gain were root causes for many of these conflicts. He hoped his music might bring this information to a new audience. He believed that if Western meddling halted, much of the Middle East would become more stabilized.

 Muslimgauze - Hunting Out with an Aerial Eye, Limited Editions - LIMITED 1, 1984. 

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A1 Under the Hand of Jaruzelski   

A2 Ensan Entehari  

B   Empty Quarter (Pt. I) 

 Muslimgauze - Buddhist on Fire, Recloose Organisation LOOSE 008, 1984.

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A1 Soviet Occupied Territories     

A2 Turkish Falaka   

A3 Priest    

B1 Reuters   

B2 Dissidents in Exile 

 Muslimgauze - Blinded Horses, Limited Editions LIMITED 2, 1985.

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A1 Byzantine Crucifixion    

A2 Zebra Slaughter    

A3 Palestine 

B1 Death of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale   

B2 Political Asylum

 Muslimgauze – Hajj, Limited Editions LIMITED 4, 1986. 

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A1 Charnel  

A2 Under Black Light

A3 Somnambulists    

B  X Ajza of Martyrdome  

 Muslimgauze - Jazirat-ul-Arab, Limited Editions LIMITED 5, 1987. 

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A1 Arms of the Koran    

A2 The Divine Cause  

A3 Sabra  

B1 Bourj-el-Barajneh    

B2 Mäiaz    

B3 Chatila

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Woo is an electro-acoustic/ambient group consisting of the brothers Mark & Clive Ives of South London. Their first album, Whichever Way You are Going, You are Going Wrong, was released in 1982. Into the Heart of Love is their third release, from 1990. Woo’s sound is a unique fusion of alternative, experimental, & electronic soundscapes. Their discography has changed genre gradually with each release. Initially they were more alternative, indie rock, lo-fi jazz, synth & nostalgic acoustic guitar music. As recording continued, the brothers Ives shifted to a more ambient, new age, spiritual, angelic, instrumental music created to aid in meditation, relaxation & healing.

Into the Heart of Love features Woo’s typical ethereal weirdness, seamlessly sheer yet strangely off-kilter: exquisite guitar layering; sighed vocals; & slithering clarinet lines.

 Woo - Into the Heart of Love cassette, Cloud Nine Music, 1990. 

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Side One –

Hopi

Taizee (traditional)

Make me tea (with Sue Amor)

A Little Long Way

The Frog’s Fandango

When you find your love

A Complex Art

Trish’s Return

Into the Heart of Love (with Davy Booth)

Love on Other Planets

Don’t delay

Side Two –

Woo-Woo

The Subtle Shadow

The Subtle Shadow (Instrumental with Julie Heaton)

Sarah

Are you Falling?

It’s Love

Mountains

Gentle Actions

The Return Journey

The Heart of Love/Lullaby

The Heart Sleeps

Spaces we breathe

Enjoy this please,

NØ