Muslimgauze - Jebel Tariq -Reissue- (c) 2003 Staalplaat
Artist....: Muslimgauze
Album.....: Jebel Tariq
Type......: Limited Edition
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 08
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Staalplaat
Catalogue#: MUSLIMLIM 033
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/233709
Tracklist:
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01 Derbuka Arghul 09:45
02 Abu Zeid 08:31
03 Fall Of Granada 06:02
04 Maghribi Hamza 09:36
05 Orange Camel Sherbert 06:19
06 Agadir 04:29
07 Maghribimaz 08:09
08 Jebel Tariq 09:08
Total:99,7 MB / 61:59 min
Release Notes:
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Previously issued in 2000 as MP3 internet release (MUSLIMLIM 025).
Limited edition of 700.
Jebel Tariq is the arabic name of Gibraltar Rock.
Originally distributed over the internet via Pretentious 2000
Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and never went to the Middle
East. His recordings as Muslimgauze, however, qualified him as one of
the Western artists most explicitly slanted in his 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 could have been a potentially
controversial figure if his releases were available in anything except
severely limited editions -- usually less than one thousand copies of
each. Despite their lack of prominence, Jones' blend of found-sound
Middle Eastern atmospheres with heavily phased drones and colliding
rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise
underground.
Formed in 1982 to protest the Israeli invasion of Lebanon,
Muslimgauze's first release was the Hammer & Sickle EP, which appeared
in 1983 as a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During the
1980s, Jones averaged almost two Muslimgauze albums per year, plus
additional EPs and limited releases (of 500 copies each). With 1990's
Intifaxa he earned his first release on Extreme Records, an American
label with releases by Robert Rich and Paul Schⁿtze. Five albums
followed for Extreme in the next four years, while a half-dozen were
released on the Dutch Staalplaat, distributed in the States as well
through Soleilmoon. As the decade progressed, Muslimgauze's output
became even more concentrated -- five albums in 1994, six a year later,
and an unbelievable eight LPs in 1996. The experimental/noise
underground increased in visibility during the late '90s, with
Muslimgauze productions gradually encompassing heavier beats and a
style close in execution to post-industrial beat-heads Techno Animal,
Download and Scorn. 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 dub collective Systemwide) and the nine-disc Box of
Silk and Dogs soon followed.