Muslimgauze - Your Mines In Kabul -Limited Edition- (c) 2000 Staalpl
Artist....: Muslimgauze
Album.....: Your Mines In Kabul
Type......: Limited Edition
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: cd1: 11 cd2: 11 cd3: 1
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Staalplaat
Catalogue#: MUSLIMLIM 026
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/197858
Tracklist:
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Cd1
01 Tangier - Zeen 06:56
02 Izlamabad Carpet Boy 07:42
03 Ravi And Kaldesh Mukherjee 05:42
04 Gujarati Translator 05:12
05 Translator Of Gujarati 04:12
06 Papier-Mache Efiji Of Bishan Bedi 05:32
07 Gurdev Singh, Bizarre Guru Of The Body 05:18
08 Why Does She Not Shower Me With Rupees 08:22
09 Bakarkhani 00:53
10 The Last Tamil Tiger Skinned 03:38
11 Namiki An Wadda 06:21
Cd2
01 Burnt Bungalows Of Siml 08:33
02 Lucknow, See Your Error 04:03
03 Karakorum Visa Office 04:59
04 Gutted Snapper 01:50
05 Tongue Tied In Sind 02:56
06 Ascend Babel In Oanj 04:21
07 Subultan 07:54
08 Dishdasha 00:23
09 Nawab Fanatic 07:48
10 Jamiat Zirt 05:28
11 Bismillah 01:08
Cd3
01 Lahore (Extended Version - Speed Up) 31:46
Total:165,8 MB/ 140:5
Release Notes:
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Notes: Part of the subscription series.
Numbered limited edition of 700 copies.
Comes in a clear jewel case, printed on front and back, with a special
gatefold insert with a foam button to hold CD1.
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.