Mullah Said

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Mullah Said is a studio album by British experimental musician Bryn Jone, best known under the name of his primary musical project Muslimgauze. It was released in July 1998. In its three decennial iterations on Staalplaat, one of two record labels that Jones depended on for releasing music in the 1990s until his death, it was originally released as a digipak CD limited to an edition of 1,000 hand-numbered copie, followed by a repress in 2008, and finally a reissue on vinyl limited to 500 copies in 2018. It has been regarded as a definitive Muslimgauze album. Mullah Said has been regarded as one of the greatest Muslimgauze release, and has been considered a definitive and essential album of his discography, as well as an underground ethnic electronica cult classic. On YouTube, the title track of Mullah Said is the most viewed and streamed Muslimgauze track, with above 300,000 view. John Delf, an engineer involved with multiple Muslimgauze albums recorded in his Manchester studio, the Abraham Mosque, assisted with production and engineering; it was the last Muslimgauze album he worked on before Bryn Jones' death in January 1999, from which onward he continued to produce posthumous release. A 1999 review of Mullah Said written by Glenn Hammett & Steve Taylor for their publication, The Raging Consciousne, proclaimed that 'those not familiar with Jones' style will listen slack-jawed at the shear anticipatory nature of his sound collage'. Upon the release of its 2018 vinyl reissue, record distributor Boomkat described it in a review as 'fall squarely in the category of crisp, richly layered and dubbed-out Bryn Jones productions'. The review also identified elements such as a repetitive dub bass beat, 'waves' of electronic Middle Eastern strings and voice, and layers of building hand percussion, familiar elements of Muslimgauze's stylistic musical palette. Alongside this and the somber, distinctively warm Arabesque-synth tone of his ambient techno oriented album, another familiar element present in prior albums like "Veiled Sisters" and "Maroon", the opening of the album features a sample of an Islamic call to prayer among other field recordings of the Middle East. Meanwhile, the two-minute outro track, "An End", features a lo-fi sample of a solo female Punjabi vocalist played over looped peacock calls and an occasional percussion loop with an indecipherable voice. .

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