Muslimgauze ‎– Azzazin (1996) [FULL ALBUM]

Label: Staalplaat ‎– MUSLIMLIM 003 Series: Muslimgauze Subscription – 003 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipak Country: Netherlands Released: Feb 1996 Genre: Electronic Style: Abstract, Ambient, Glitch Tracklist 00:00 Untitled () 04:31 Untitled () 09:36 Untitled () 12:00 Untitled () 16:59 Untitled () 22:46 Untitled () 28:01 Untitled () 30:04 Untitled () 31:10 Untitled () 33:23 Untitled () 37:36 Untitled () 39:49 Untitled () 41:58 Untitled () limited edition of 500 Second edition in jewel-case released in 2004, limited to 800 copies. part of the Muslimgauze subscription series “Encapsulation: Unlike any other Muslimgauze release. Really. Warm dark jelly replaces white hot sand, and respiring samples replace tablas, in a desirable stylistic departure for the Muslimgauze initiated. Not for beginners. Recording Quality: Clean, consistent sound quality: good signal to noise. Some tracks end abruptly, lending an unfinished, sloppy quality to the work. Cover Art/Packaging: Infantile. One of the most inane Muslimgauze covers yet. The Content: Prolific and brilliant pro-Palestinian bigot Bryan Jones has veered substantially from his usual Sino-Arab-tinged trance ambient collage music to produce a highly repetitive series of electronica tracks. Gone are the pungent and incessant percussive patterns and wafting, stringed washes of the desert experience, and the (assumedly) protesting voices of the downtrodden and displaced victims of the occupied territories. Here, these are replaced by a spare and refreshingly new analog synth backbone sound that supports subdued and strange exhalations and oddly synchronized human sniffs and whispers. While breaking new ground for Muslimgauze, too much is unfortunately the same throughout this disc, which should have been pared down to a three or four track EP so as to retain its power and appeal. Jones has sometimes been given to regurgitating and slightly reworking his material throughout the length of a disc (I’m thinking of Maroon, Betrayal and Veiled Sisters, as examples of a series of unvaried remixes masquerading as complete works), and can only be counted on to occasionally produce volumes of astonishing invention, intensity, variety and cohesiveness, as in Vote Hezbollah, Zul’m, or the recent excellent Gun Aramaic Part 2 (forget about Part 1, another unvarigated collection). I suppose that Jones evolves his musical ideas over the course of entire CDs, and not from track to track, which probably allows him much room for minute variation, but that can be frustrating for listeners who are not completists, but who are looking for a deeper, more aesthetically useful compositional delivery. (And those looking for a complex and satisfying night out on the sonic desert with Mr. Jones should absolutely stay away from the pathetic wire-frame percussion sketches on Blue Mosque, which has been mentioned favorably on this list as good fodder for initiates-- this is puzzling advice, as it as musically nutritious as a constant diet of couscous, and is possibly Muslimgauze’s most feeble work to date, all two CDs of it). The music of Muslimgauze is distinctive stuff, and can usually be instantly identified and chronically gratifying. On first listen to Azzazin, however, I thought I had inserted a FAX release by mistake: it almost sounds like one of Namlook’s ethno-ambient meanderings, perhaps undertaken when he had the flu and couldn’t round up Bill for a session. The best thing that can be said about Azzazin is that there is not another Muslimgauze CD like it. Whether that is good or bad depends on what you’re looking for.“ (MumboJumbo) xxx BUY AND SUPPORT THE ARTISTS / LABELS () ! All rights reserved for the producers / artists / labels of these tracks. All the tunes that are uploaded are for PROMOTIONAL use only. If the owner or third party copyright holder do not agree with their material being uploaded on youtube, please contact us, and we will remove it immediately.