Music Style beautiful harsh ethnic rythyms

Musical Influences West bank sounds

Press Reviews The master tape for "Fakir Sind" arrived at Soleilmoon on May 15, 1998, in the midst of an especially busy recording period for Bryn Jones, the late mastermind behind Muslimgauze. The previous month had brought no fewer than three different full length projects to our mailbox, including a revised version of "Syrinjia", the original version of which had just been released the month before as a limited edition vinyl LP. It was impossible for this label to keep up with his output. Indeed, to have released each album as it arrived would have overwhelmed even the most dedicated Muslimgauze fan. Now that Bryn is gone we're looking backwards to our box of mastertapes and beginning to reissue them, one by one, until everything is made available. Although it's doubtful we'll ever know exactly how it happened, a listener to "Fakir Sind" could conclude that it probably began as little more than a sketch, a momentary shadow cast across the sand, outlined by the rising sun. If you took a flock of peacocks and turned their strange voices into a theme, and then stretched it to fill forty-four and a half minutes you'd have "Fakir Sind". But of course that description only scratches the surface, and like every Muslimgauze album before it this one goes places untouched by anything else. While it's by no means his most varied album, "Fakir Sind" is complete project that will stand the test of time, sounding fresher and more relevant ten years from now than everything else released by the imitators and wannabes.

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