...ever since Brynn Jones (aka Muslimgauze) died it seems like every label who had anything of his had to either release it or RErelease it... everybody was jumping on the band-wagon to have a muslimgauze release-fest... unfortunately, the releases aren't all equally good, IMHO. There are some that feel like he spent time to get them just right and others that feel like he threw them together in an afternoon in the studio...

-- drsquid

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Uh, Dr. Pavlov? I believe your dogs have just devoured the Avon lady.

love the sarcasm :tongue:

Yeah, I know what you mean, some of it's good, some of it's bad...when you have so many releases, you can't expect them all to be top notch, but then again, who am I to say?

Most hate my sarcasm...

The weirdest part of Muslimgauze to me was his beliefs, or more specifically how he had them. For a guy from Wales who never travelled to the Middle East to be so dedicated to such a complicated issue, he just begged to be cut down by some people, but it never came. Whether he flew too far under the radar, or they were just shock tactics that didn't work - who can tell now?
Maybe that's another link to Merzbow (his interests range from bondage porn to chickens...), where the music doesn't fit the agenda...

an interesting comment from discogs:

Alastis - Jun 3, 2004
"There's a lot that has been already said about Bryn Jones (a.k.a. Muslimgauze) who died in 1999 after brief struggle with pneumonia.

He was a truly prolific artist (about 180 releases as of 2004 and still some of his works are unreleased). He also was very sensitive about Middle East - that's one of his ideas that many people will never understand. I don't believe that he was really angry religious fanatic - probably this kind of image was used to boost his record sales. But i still think that he was incredibly talented musician who left us too early

In 2004 we know that a lot of anger shown through his work somehow transformed into the real world - terror became a reality. Even after his death, a lot of titles of his albums and tracks are reflecting the current situation in Iraq and in general."

I am now trying to obtain as much Bryn Jones material as I possibly can, even some of the hard-to-find releases under the pseudonym e.g. oblique graph