Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Zul'm (1992)
BAND/ARTIST: Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser
- Title: Zul'm
- Year Of Release: 1992
- Label: EXTREME
- Genre: Electronic, Experimental, World
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 58 min
- Total Size: 343 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
First edition of a highlight from Muslimgauze’s run of Extreme releases, cherished among the most lavishly layered, immersive in his sprawling body of work
‘Zul’m’ catches Salford’s Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze a decade deep into a catalogue, which already numbered in the dozens by this point. Whilst it’s sometimes hard to see the wood for the trees in his densely packed oeuvre, this one stands out for its sensuous lushness and crisp (rather than fiercely distorted) rhythm programming and arrangements of percussion laid down by guest musicians, Said Nassar on Arabic drums, and Zorawar Singh on indian percussion, with additional lushness attributable to keyboards by Mark Lawrence.
The album is titled for name of Muslim prophet Zulkifi, meaning ‘fate’, and, like the vast majority of Muslimgauze works, signifies his obsession with Middle Eastern politics, and a solidarity with Palestinian people, that grew from ’82 after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. While his politics are more often worn on his record sleeves, implied via artwork and explicitly stated in track titles, the music conveys a more abstract impressionist quality in its swirling geometries.
It’s there in the intoxicating swells of drums, stereo-swept strings and bazaar atmosphere to ‘fakir’, concentrated into the electro-dub dread of ‘Curfew, Gaza’, and diffused into hashed-out vapours on ‘Afghan Black’, next to a killer cut of ’92 style rave breaks meshed to hand-played drums in ‘Indian Summer of Benazir Bhutto’, and haunting the spacious mixes of ‘Teheran via Train’ and the heavy procession of ’Shiva Hooks’.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Fakir (8:44)
1.02 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Curfew, Gaza (10:38)
1.03 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Afghan Black (9:06)
1.04 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Indian Summer Of Benazir Bhutto (9:16)
1.05 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Teheran Via Train (7:56)
1.06 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Shiva Hooka (6:47)
1.07 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Teheran Via Train (Departure Mix) (5:41)
‘Zul’m’ catches Salford’s Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze a decade deep into a catalogue, which already numbered in the dozens by this point. Whilst it’s sometimes hard to see the wood for the trees in his densely packed oeuvre, this one stands out for its sensuous lushness and crisp (rather than fiercely distorted) rhythm programming and arrangements of percussion laid down by guest musicians, Said Nassar on Arabic drums, and Zorawar Singh on indian percussion, with additional lushness attributable to keyboards by Mark Lawrence.
The album is titled for name of Muslim prophet Zulkifi, meaning ‘fate’, and, like the vast majority of Muslimgauze works, signifies his obsession with Middle Eastern politics, and a solidarity with Palestinian people, that grew from ’82 after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. While his politics are more often worn on his record sleeves, implied via artwork and explicitly stated in track titles, the music conveys a more abstract impressionist quality in its swirling geometries.
It’s there in the intoxicating swells of drums, stereo-swept strings and bazaar atmosphere to ‘fakir’, concentrated into the electro-dub dread of ‘Curfew, Gaza’, and diffused into hashed-out vapours on ‘Afghan Black’, next to a killer cut of ’92 style rave breaks meshed to hand-played drums in ‘Indian Summer of Benazir Bhutto’, and haunting the spacious mixes of ‘Teheran via Train’ and the heavy procession of ’Shiva Hooks’.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Fakir (8:44)
1.02 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Curfew, Gaza (10:38)
1.03 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Afghan Black (9:06)
1.04 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Indian Summer Of Benazir Bhutto (9:16)
1.05 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Teheran Via Train (7:56)
1.06 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Shiva Hooka (6:47)
1.07 - Muslimgauze, Mark Lawrence, Zorawar Singh, Said Nasser - Teheran Via Train (Departure Mix) (5:41)
World | Electronic | FLAC / APE
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