Muslimgauze – Hammer & Sickle (1983) [FULL ALBUM] (1st EP)

Label: Hessian – HESSIAN 1 Format: Vinyl, 7“, EP, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: UK Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental Tracklist 00:00 Hammer & Sickle 07:10 Fear Of Gadaffi 10:59 Nettle Cloth 12:53 Baize Tents all tracks composed by Bryn Jones The cover is completely black without any informations. “’Hammer and Sickle’ came out in 1983, and is the 3rd item on this discography (at present), and the earliest material released by Bryn as Muslimgauze. And once more, listened to in retrospect it forces the listener to rethink their understanding of the man and his music. Despite the track titles (the title track filling side one, or the three shorter on side 2 ’Fear of Gadaffi’, ’Nettle cloths’ and ’Baize tents’) and the Middle Eastern/Islam myth which has developed, these pieces are closer to electronic minimalism than to the later fourth world music. The closest thing in my collection