Muslimgauze occupied a strange and mysterious place in the musical world of the 80’s and 90’s He was a powerful, prolific innovator releasing albums that were alternately beautiful and visceral, full of ambient electronics, polyrhythmic drumming and all kinds of voices and sound effects. The recordings earned him a devoted following in underground, abstract and industrial music circles worldwide. (NY Times 1999)

Muslimgauze was the main musical project and moniker of controversial Mancunian musician Bryn Jones, a British empirical electronica producer.
The name Muslimgauze is a play on the word muslin (a type of gauze)[2][3]combined with Muslim, referring to Bryn Jones’ preoccupation with discordant frictions throughout the Muslim world.

Despite his lack of popular prominence, Jones’ blend of found-sound Middle Eastern atmospheres, and treatments with heavily phased drones and colliding rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise instilled pulses from the esoteric instrumental underground.

By the time of his premature death in 1999 at the age of just 37 he had recorded nearly 200 albums worth of material so “new” releases are still surfacing today. Indeed there has been a bit of renaissance of interest in his music in the last two decades and echoes of his influence can be heard in the music of many contemporary artists including the likes of Shackleton and Vatican Shadow. To an obsessed number of people he is one of the more adventurous producers / musicians to come out of Britain as unique, single minded and inspiring as the likes of Aphex Twin in the UK and Raz Mesinai from NY.