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Muslimgauze - Veiled Sisters

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Equal parts head-spinning, and ahead-of-time longform excavations / re-presentations from the vast vaults of the late Bryn Jones, aka Muslimgauze - Originally out on CD in 1993, and now served up on this mighty three disc gatefold package, re-mastered and on wax for the first time, via Alter. 
>> It's like travelling with sound. This is what is meant when people say  ' the music taking you some place else'. Basically, people might try, but no one will ever sound like Muslimgauze did.
"It's by some strange inversion that since his untimely death in 1999 Bryn Jones' Muslimgauze project has become evermore enigmatic as his publicly available recordings have become evermore vast. The Mancunian artist's sudden passing at the age of 37 prematurely resolved a body of work that remains as experimental as it is diffuse, with an informal archive that was left spread between favoured labels and confidantes. And though this monadic project never abided by genre specifications, it all feels as if it is taking the critical pulses of its time and rendering them into something other than the sum of its obscure compulsions. Jones' double album 'Veiled Sisters' from 1993 is no exception, and it persists as a magnificent outlier in his singular and bewildering discography.

Originally released by the label Soleilmoon, an early and lifelong supporter of Jones' work along with Staalplaat, the album is a notable example of the uniquely recombinant fragility and fervour of Jones' work. This 3LP edition marks the album's first appearance on vinyl. Like much of the Muslimgauze catalogue, 'Veiled Sisters' is dedicated to the Palestine Liberation Organization, with its two halves—Sister One and Sister Two—calling on the history and conflicts of the modern Islamic world through opaque titles and snatches of musical oration.

Forgoing the raucous timbre and abrasion that Jones could occasionally employ, this album balances a medley of shrill instrumental bursts with a complex patterning of ambient atmospheres. 'Veiled Sisters' moves with a hypnotic gait across its extended runtime with a dynamic ensemble of electronics grounded in a pulsing yet evasive combination of low-slung kicks and dub-soaked bass. The hissy wash of drums, both played and machined, decorate a restless patina all over, and the cacophony of samples send impressions scattershot into Jones' idiosyncratic yet readymade psychedelia. With a quiet intensity that is not often captured this succinctly in the Muslimgauze catalogue, this new edition of 'Veiled Sisters' is a reminder of the haunting wonder that Jones was capable of manifesting.
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Captivating, semi-lucid, even hallucinogenic... yet fully real, and with purpose. Dubwise, soundsystem-minded experimental music with a strong message for the liberation of, and compassion for the people of Palestine, who have suffered from colonialisation and oppression for over a century now - with things reaching a new low in recent time, with Israel's Netanyahu-led shamelessly far right government now in place.

Across three discs, 'Veiled Sisters' totals to over 2hrs of music,
and it's now re-mastered and on vinyl for the first time ever.
Edition of 250, in triple gatefold, pressed to black vinyl .

1. Shamal Aquabah / P.L.O. Flag / Veiled Sisters / Dust - 24:57mins
2. Submit To Sharia / Qasidah Murmur / Lebanon - 22:53mins
3. Oil Field / Mohajir - 14:38mins
4. Shaitan Verse / Cholera / Katyusha / Ingreswallah - 18:49mins
5. Hindunation / Fiefdom / El Minzah Kiff - 23:14mins
6. Pasha / Farouche Charpoy / Halal / Sadu / Zupol - 24:47mins


Shamal Aquabah / P.L.O. Flag / Veiled Sisters / Dust



Submit To Sharia / Qasidah Murmur / Lebanon



Oil Field / Mohajir



Shaitan Verse / Cholera / Katyusha / Ingreswallah



Hindunation / Fiefdom / El Minzah Kiff



Pasha / Farouche Charpoy / Halal / Sadu / Zupol