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Muslimgauze was a music project of Bryn Jones (17 June 1961 – 14 January 1999), a prolific British ethnic electronica and experimental musician who was influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world, with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With dozens of albums released under the Muslimgauze name, Jones was remarkably prolific, but his mainstream success was limited due in part to his work being issued mostly in limited editions on small record labels. Nonetheless, as critic John Bush wrote, "Jones' blend of found-sound Middle Eastern atmospheres with heavily phased drones and colliding rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise underground." The name Muslimgauze is a play on the word ''muslin'' (a type of gauze)〔 fee required〕 combined with ''Muslim'', referring to Bryn Jones' preoccupation with conflicts throughout the Muslim world. ==Early musical career== Jones first released music in 1982 as on Kinematograph, his own imprint, and the independent co-op label Recloose, run by Simon Crab. came from the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of the time and was musically composed of electronic/experimental drone with occasional synth-melodic hooks and use of radio broadcast samples. Track titles were sometimes politicised such as "Murders linked to Gaullist Clique" on ''Extended Play'' (1982) and "Castro Regime" on ''Triptych'' (1982). After operation Peace of the Galilee, the first Muslimgauze album, ''Hammer & Sickle'' (1983) appeared on another of Jones's label monikers, Hessian. Under the Muslimgauze alias, music switched from emphasis on pure synthesis to percussion textures, which grew to encompass acoustic drum kits, drum machines, assorted ethnic hand percussion, and even rudimentary objects like pots and pans. Synthesis and tape loop samples were often relegated to accompaniment. Releases at the time were occasionally on cassette, more often vinyl EPs and LPs; the longest running of Jones' label monikers, Limited Editions, started with ''Hunting Out with an Aerial Eye'' (1984) followed by ''Buddhist on Fire'', put out by Recloose the same year. Since then, Jones roughly released an album a year, given scarce financial resources until 1988, when he began making inroads with then-emerging labels Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, and Extreme Records. In 1988, Staalplaat released the first Muslimgauze CD, ''Iran'', the subsequent catalogue migrated to mostly that format. By the late 1980s, Jones ran out of funding to self release, and other labels that did put out Muslimgauze releases such as Recloose and Permis De Construire (which put out ''Coup D'État'') did not pay promised royalties. Recloose head Simon Crab cited lack of sales and damaged records from fire bombing as his reason. At this time distributors Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, and Extreme Records transitioned to a label proper with the advent of the compact disc format, which became less expensive to produce and ship than vinyl over time and gradually took on the Muslimgauze catalogue. After a positive experience with the release of ''Intifaxa'' (1990) with Extreme, Jones remained with the label until his final release with it, ''Citadel'', in 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muslimgauze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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