quoted 6 lines I was poking around my local college radio station and came across a
> I was poking around my local college radio station and came across a
> really cool disc: Muslimgauze, "Vote Hezbollah". I noticed a couple
> older albums by them and the reviews on the front seemed to indicate that
> this latest one was a new direction for them with a much more
> ambient/techno feel as opposed to plain old "world music" fare. Anyone
> know anything more about these guys?
I have two CDs by them : Iran and United States Of Islam. Both are very
good, but neither are in any way techno, so that sort of goes along with
the reviews that you heard. I hadn't heard that they were doing anything
with a techno/ambient bent, so this is interesting news. Their earlier
stuff has the throbby, thick, lush ethnic percussion, but with minimal or
no sounds of any kind or instrumentation at all. I wouldn't have called
it 'world music' either, though. It would be hard to classify.
Experimental percussion maybe? I used to correspond with them by
snailmail : if you're interested in the band, you should write. They're
very nice and actually respond to letters hand-written with some care
shown as to your questions and such.
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