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Free Arab Music (Pseudoislamic Ethnomusicology)
I've received a not insiginificant number of hits for my post Free Arab Media from people searching for free arab mp3s. That page wasn't any help, and frankly I don't know of any good Arab musicians. I do know of one good swaydo Arab fellow though: the utterly unique Bryn Jones, aka Muslimgauze. Before his death, Muslimgauze was prolific, creating hundreds of albums in several pseudo-Muslim styles. Epitonic has a few of his tracks available for download, including:
- Rebiana Sand Sea
- Youssif Gujarati
- Turkish Sword Swallower
- Algeciras
- Bilechik Mule
- Mosul
- Under Saffron
- Old Bombay Vinyl Junkie
- Kabul is Free Under a Veil
- Anti Arab Media Censor part 1
- Arab Jerusalem
- Opiate and Mullah
- Abu Nidal
(Also available from epitonic are a few songs by the airy 1 Mile North, the oddly named Arab Strap, and the "pseudo-ethnomusicologist" Zoviet France.)
(For a taste of the "lyrics" of these songs, read my attempted transcription of Hindu Kush Opium Crop.)
As for Muslimgauze, in the non-free world...
MP3.com also has Muslimgauze previews available from 4 albums: No Human Rights for Arabs in Israel, From the Edge, Red Madrassa, Dar Es Salaam, and Abu-Dis, though the site's arcane interface makes it hard to say whether full albums are available there or not.
Fellow iTunes aficionados can download two albums: the famous Arabbox and The Remixes.
Bryn Jones teamed up with Bass Communion to create the obviously named Bass Communion v. Muslimgauze.
01:35 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Media, Vanity | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this
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Some mixes of muslimgauze's music are also available on the net - check links here :
http://arabbox.free.fr
Posted by: http://arabbox.free.fr | Monday, April 18, 2005