Muslimgauze - Syrinjia -Limited Edition- (c) 2004 Soleilmoon Recordings
Artist....: Muslimgauze
Album.....: Syrinjia
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: cd1: 10 cd2: 10
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Soleilmoon Recordings
Catalogue#: SOL 132 CD
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/1073626
Tracklist:
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Cd1
01 Wajroo Dalak 05:35
02 Detrimental 04:30
03 Amira Kadal Srinagar 04:53
04 Sitaram Sharma 03:08
05 Holy Man 05:35
06 Divisive 04:05
07 Punjab Root 04:01
08 Moon Guitar 03:02
09 Rashid Jag Deep 04:58
10 Dugga Signal 01:07
Cd2
01 Negative 03:42
02 Cobra 03:30
03 Baleh 03:23
04 Na Khair 01:13
05 Zibib 09:21
06 Mosque Radio 01:53
07 Taliban 04:47
08 Zindag 03:08
09 Daggar 08:23
10 Arab 06:39
Total:135,8 MB/ 86:53 min
Release Notes:
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Notes: Limited edition of 48 in a handmade silk folder with the name
Muslimgauze embroidered on the front in silk thread. Inside each folder
is a pair of pockets holding two CDs packed in full-color printed
cardboard slipcovers and two inserts printed on paper made from
recycled silk fiber. The inserts, one red, one green, are printed in
gold and silver ink, respectively, and list the song titles for each
CD.
There are six more colours of folders, some of which are more rare than
the others. A total of 518 copies have been made in the following
colors and quantities: Red (48), light blue (106), dark blue (83),
purple (27), cream (93), brown (127) and grey (27). Besides being very
rare, all of the purple folders have the added distinction of having
the name Muslimgauze embroidered on upside down.
A second issue, in regular jewel case, came out on 25 October 2004 in a
limited edition of 1000.
Tracks 1-1 through 1-8 recorded April 4, 1997.
Tracks 1-9 through 2-5 recorded April 5. 1997.
Tracks 2-6 through 2-10 recorded April 6, 1997.
Tracks 1-1 through 1-9 were first released as the 1998 Soileilmoon
vinyl release (SOLV 007).
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.