Muslimgauze - Mullah Said 2xLP

First vinyl edition, originally released on CD in 1998. Those not familiar with style of Manchester's Bryn Jones (aka Muslimgauze) will listen slack-jawed at the shear anticipatory nature of his sound collage. The six lengthy tracks on Mullah Said are based on hypnotic and somewhat menacing grooves with a repetitive dub bass beat, waves of Middle Eastern strings and voices, layers of building hand percussion. Each track is a respective, but the washes of sound/percussion come and go often creating a sense of motion and change. All of the tracks are similar and even share elements. Mid-East tension is so accurately captured through the use of the regions instrumentation (especially percussion), sinister electronics, samples of men chanting, women crying, sounds culled from the horrors of war and occasional angry distortion that the listener will be transported to the belly of the beast. Mullah Said displays two aspects of the work of Muslimgauze. Firstly, musically, it is in the delight