Part 1 of a multi-part series to be announced...

Spack Cubes - Tape Tracks $13.00

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Deeply melodic acid techno with classic 303/808/909 sounds merged with with both playful and melancholic atmospheres and a deep soulfulness. Tape Tracks is also a moody work, as sugar-rush acid squelches counterpoint deep atmospheres and deftly constructed rhythms. This recording evokes Detroit techno, and what you missed about early Autechre and Richie Hawtin, the melody and soul to emerge from acid. Every now and then a special electronic album surfaces and this is one of them. Not since Donacha Costello’s Color Series has anything so beautiful surfaced. Spak Cubes is the alias of Audrius Vaitiekunas, born in Klaipėda, Lithuania and residing in London, England. In spring 2010, he presented I, Absentee with Spak Cubes, a one-off acid/electronica project recorded live to tape. Regardless of which name he’s using, Vaitiekunas is definitely a producer on the rise. File under: Electronic, techno, IDM.

TMPS03, papyrus Arafat poster $23.00

TMPS04 sufi papyrus posters $23.00

The Muslimgauze Preservation Society proudly presents TMPS03 and TMPS04, hand-printed artwork that originated from Bryn Jones, onto genuine papyrus, made in Egypt. The artwork sources are the cover art for Nile Quartra (Jara, 1994) and an unreleased image in Jones’ customary collage style. Not commonly known is that Jones was professionally trained as a graphics designer in both London and Manchester, England before going on stints as an intern. These skills were then directly applied to Muslimgauze album releases and handbills until signed to a label in 1990,
with the exception of Nile Quartra among a couple others—which Jones was happy to produce. The MPS approached a generations old print shop in Cairo, Egypt to dust off their antique press machines and print off a very limited run (edition of 100 each) of Egyptian-blue prints onto high quality papyrus designed to out-last prospective owners by a millennia or so. What better way to preserve the legacy of Bryn Jones than onto one of history’s more enduring mediums?

Note, TMPS 04 has Islamic phrasings in Arabic hence, The Muslimgauze Preservation Society requests buyers treat it with respect.

Grouped pricing for posters available, please e-mail us for a quote.

Camel Through A Needles Eye $25.00 + shipping

http://www.ikhider.com/samples/camel.mp3

“It was one of those rare occasions when you hear something, you cannot help but think ‘where the hell does this come from?” -Steve Wilson

The Muslimgauze Preservation Society are proud to offer you MPS 02, Camel Through A Needles Eye, featuring two discs of unreleased music that clock in at just under three hours. Muslimgauze like you never heard it; a yin/yang of both the abrasive textures and ethereal, beat-driven and ambient—fused into wondrous harmony. To commemorate this release, the MPS sourced covers in Egypt to be hand-printed onto genuine papyrus. A second cover is set amidst a 9 panel fold insert with extensive liner notes on one side, and a fold-open poster featuring Jones’ original art work on the other. A bonus sticker of Jones’ art work is also included. The music and packaging is all set within a super jewel case to protect this special edition limited to a run of 500. Quantities are already selling fast! MPS 02 $25.00 + shipping. Ships Thursday, December 16th, 2010. ***please note, track 8 on disc 1 and track 9 on disc two are the same. Original album time span was 2 hrs and 51 mins, but is now 2 hrs and 58 mins.*** Click for audio sample.

Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones

Yui Onodera & Celer - Generic City CD $16.00

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For this new imprint’s inaugural release Celer collaborated with Japanese artist Yui Onodera, with mastering duties performed by 12k boss Taylor Deupree. While much of the established Celer sound centres upon thoughtful, droning austerity this album is given a very different shape by extensive field recording work from both Los Angeles and Japaninvolved. Woven into this tapestry of environmental sounds and floating tonality you’ll hear migratory birds, ice breaking on a frozen lake, temple bells and sounds made by people in restaurants or on public transport systems. Generic City offers an absorbing, occasionally hallucinatory portal into the audio topography of urban spaces. Gorgeous. File under deep ambient.

Visit our Celer section for more deep ambient goodness.

Marc Barreca - Subterrane $14.50

http://www.ikhider.com/samples/Barreca_Jumbled.mp3

Kerry Leimer’s Palace of Lights label started in the early 1980s and quickly developed, in a small, way into a little hothouse of Eno-inspired fuzzy ambience, Fourth World workouts and generally pleasing music full stop. Along with Leimer, whose music formed the bulk of PoL’s releases, there were friends Marc Barreca and Michael William Gilbert; Leimer and Barreca were also in Savant. Visit our Palace of Lights section to be mesmerized by deep listening sounds, now available at Fathom.

Mark Peter Wright - Inanimate Life $19.00

excerpt of Inanimate Life by Mark Peter Wright by FathomDistribution

Inamnimate Life -- Superb Packaging

Inanimate Life is an ongoing audio catalogue, initially conceived whilst making a series of field recordings along the North East coast of England in 2006. For anybody who has walked, swam, sat or indeed attempted to record in these exposed conditions, they will be all too familiar with the experience of blustery coastal winds. During one such excursion I stood for some time watching and listening to seagulls drift on unseen and unheard thermals of air. I became fascinated by the intangibility of wind and its effect on physical objects. All around me seagulls were supported, pulled and caressed in suspended flight, sand was shaped and whipped into the air, coastal marram grass trembled and Victorian hand railings wailed.
This inaugural installment features some of natures most complex and vibrant audial worlds; including the creaking roots of wind blasted heather, the playful gusts that animate giant oak trees and the wailing drones that resonate along wired fencing. Inanimate Life examines these delicate thresholds in our environmental, auditory perception and unveils a world teeming with sonic activity. The catalogue offers a moment to settle upon these events and in doing so, settle the ear upon the elusive, often fleeting phenomena of sound.

Muslimgauze - Lazhareem Ul Leper CD $16.00

Chott El Djerid by FathomDistribution

An attribute of a good work of art, besides craftsmanship and beauty, are revelations of a new details with each experience. Lazhareem Ul Leper by Muslimgauze certainly qualifies for its range of percussion instruments, atypical electronics, skillful de-construction of ethno-traditional music. In turn, said music is re-assembled with urban stylings with a technical deftness akin to the way a Shao-Lin monk wields weapons. The Staalplaat crew think this among the more unusual of Muslimgauze works, fans undoubtedly will think it both refreshing and as striking now as when first committed to DAT. Muslimgauze enthusiasts may recognize sounds from Izlamaphobia on the odd track as they were made roughly the same time, only Lazhareem is arranged differently and with more unique elements to form a stand-alone album. Stylistically Lazhareem straddles the line between ethno-electro releases like Silknoose for its pervasive use of Indo-Pak music melded with Persian and Mid-East; along with more Industrial releases like Izlamaphobia and Blue Mosque for its occasionally tight, near-mechanical loops. Fans will be pleased to notice never-before-heard (to this listener, at least) percussive textures layered into lush rhythmic harmonies punctuated by chimes on track five. Track ten is also singular for the way it opens with a clamor not unlike a knocked-over box of tin cans one moment, the next, this seemingly dissonant noise is harnessed and re-edited into a well-crafted rhythm track. Track six flaunts music production standards by rolling three or four tracks into one continuous 20 minute piece, vintage Bryn Jones. Yet another stand-out work is track seven, a piece that is more than its assemblage of rhythms and counter-rhythms and fused together, an underlying pulse takes possession of the track and ultimately the listener. Since 1995, masters for Lazhareem Ul Leper languished in Staalplaat vaults when it should have been put out for immediate appreciation by fans. This work of art is now available on CD, and not a moment too soon.