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01. MUSLIMGAUZE - Hudood Ordinance
02. MUSLIMGAUZE - Gilded Madrasa
03. MUSLIMGAUZE - Moroccan Lemon Chador
04. MUSLIMGAUZE - Khadifa and Fereshta
05. MUSLIMGAUZE - Zakat Zakat
06. MUSLIMGAUZE - Lahore Morphine Market
07. MUSLIMGAUZE - Kabul Kite
08. MUSLIMGAUZE - Zindan Bug Pit
09. MUSLIMGAUZE - Vanilla Jellaba
10. MUSLIMGAUZE - Tozeur Palm
11. MUSLIMGAUZE - Najibullah Headless
12. MUSLIMGAUZE - Hijab Muzzle
13. MUSLIMGAUZE - Hammam Jackal
14. MUSLIMGAUZE - Ullug Bek Sextant
15. MUSLIMGAUZE - Almond Pilau Mosaic
01. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Eternal Illusionist of Old Bachdad
02. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Ottoman Muzeum of Cherished Momentos
03. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Dead Sea Indego Net
04. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Nile is Blue Around Elephantine Island
05. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Fragrance Aroma
06. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Public Flogger of Lahore
07. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Emir of Aqua
08. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Landless of Bazzars
09. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Ganges Swimmer
10. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Hanging Judge of Iran
11. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Poisoner of Citrus
12. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Limb Amputator of Riyadh
13. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Iraqi Who Grew Orchids
14. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Female Guand of Libya
15. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Sari of Cholera
16. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Syrian Majishan
17. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Broken Radio of Istanbul Station
18. MUSLIMGAUZE - The Suffocator of Hindustani
ARTIST
TITLE
Izlamaphobia
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MUSLIM 001CD MUSLIM 001CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2015

2015 rerelease of the 1995 first release in the Muslimgauze subscription series, with updated artwork. Edition of 500. Izlamaphobia starts with an aggressive blast, "Hudood ordinance." With a rhythm track consisting of extremely tweaked and processed electronic beats and bleeps and only the gentlest of Arabic string instruments deep in the mix to relate things to a more familiar Muslimgauze sound, the song sets the general mood for the rest of Izlamaphobia. This said, Bryn Jones's specific talent was such that even without that, this would still sound like him, his trademark care and obsessiveness in terms of percussion again evident. With a variety of romanticized (some might say stereotypical) song titles like "The eternal illusionist of oid Bachdad" and "Lahore morphine market," Izlamaphobia has two chief artistic themes, if anything. On the one hand, Jones's incorporation of hip-hop and funk beats was never stronger than on Izlamaphobia, providing songs like "Gilded madrasa" and "The public flogger of Lahore" with a wickedly fierce kick and drive. On the other, the strained, alien treatments on many of the songs would be right at home on innumerable Warp Records releases of the '90s, with squelching rhythms, undanceable dance tracks, and, quite unsurprisingly, a desire to avoid expected techno clichés. With these two strains combined on many songs by Jones, the results are wonderfully slamming, strange tracks such as "Khadija and fereshta." Not everything is quite so dramatically different from other Muslimgauze releases, with the incorporation of multilayered acoustic percussion cropping up more than once, such as on "Hijab muzzle." Everything is just that little bit dirtier in sound, though, and all the more intriguing for it.