Something 4 The Weekend # 107

Muslimgauze: Zul'm: "Teheran Via Train" [mp3]

Bryn Jones was a British dude who called himself Muslimgauze and it's interesting that Wikipedia calls Muslimgauze a "music project" because the dozens of recordings that have been released blur the line between a true artist, a true musician, and something else more akin to a field recording engineer, an ethnomusicologist....

On this particular song, most of the individual parts are field recordings of indigenous Iranians, recorded at different times in different places, and Bryn Jones here has made it a Muslimgauze recording by mixing those individual elements together into this song, the sum greater than it's parts...

Throughout his vast catalog, Mr. Jones works from one extreme to the other...Some songs are truly nothing more than field recordings, others are chopped and spliced and looped and run through samplers and whatnot, and ultimately turned into songs that truly earn the "Experimental Electronica" genre tag that he's been given...

There's a heavy political element to all of this, but I'll leave it to you to follow the links if yr interested...I just like the guy's music, and find it interesting that a full decade after his untimely death from a rare fungal infection, recordings of his continue to be released with regularity...

Hotcha! Hank