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The following appeared in Vital Weekly.
There was a time when the music of Muslimgauze belonged to my daily digest, not just because I thought it was ok, but it was something that had to do with my work. Hearing so much Muslimgauze, or even being a self-proclaimed expert is leading to some fatigue, that for the last three and half years I didn't play a single Muslimgauze work; and I had a lot to chose from. The posthumous release party apparently dried up by now, since Staalplaat is now about to re-issue all nine discs from their 1999 release 'Box Of Silk And Dogs'. 'Ingaza' and 'Hafaz Al Assad' are the first and like with many of the Staalplaat releases: they look once again spectacular. No doubt that Staalplaat still didn't loose any of that touch. Triangle, hard cover cardboard cover, printed in silver, black and gold. Matters in Middle East didn't soften out, to make an understand, so that makes the music of Muslimgauze perhaps still relevant. I say perhaps, because Bryn Jones got all his information from the
newspaper and TV (and despite Al-Jazeera existing ten years, I don't think Bryn ever watched that) and whereas his concerns about the Middle East were probably genuine, he could perhaps as easily taken another good cause (racism in South Africa, Tibet, Ireland) to make his somewhat provocative statement.
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