Muslimgauze - Fakir Sind (Soleilmoon Recordings, 1999)

Fakir Sind is one of the first posthumous Muslimgauze titles to see release, emblazoned with strikingly screen-printed glyphs and overflowing with the electrifying percussive experiments that are a Muslimgauze hallmark. In addition to the expected webs of dub-distorted Middle Eastern hand percussion, acoustic instrumentation, and drifting vocal obstinate, such tracks as "Fakir of Gwalior" also find Jones dabbling with the ear-twisting digital delay war page that marks his latter work. More unexpected is Jones' prominent use of peacock voices. Their squawks and squabbles can be heard among the patter of hand drums and vocal loops, adding to this remarkable disc's authentically exotic flavor.

Limited to 1000 copies

01 Mumbai Vibe Garden
02 Zenana Of Ugly Thoughts
03 Memsahib Of Gup And Ghee
04 Fakir Of Gwalior
05 Let's Have More Dagga, Begum
06 The Shikari Who Wore No Dhoti
07 Hindu Kush Opium Crop
08 Left Skin Of Jaalghazi
09 Why No Dogs In Nizamabad
10 Pink Seerband

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