(Catalogue no. 10313)
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Title Description:
In 1996 Steven Wilson, the mind behind Bass Communion, wrote to Bryn Jones to express his admiration of Muslimgauze. Subsequently they met and Steven gave Bryn some of his own music, although he suspected that it wouldn't appeal to him. It didn't, but as with all the music that Bryn was exposed to, his natural instinct to rework it into something that did proved irresistable. And so it came to pass that only four days after their meeting Steven received a parcel containing two and a half hours of reconstructions and obliterations of his orginal music. The new pieces were distorted, grainy, loop-driven tracks, but Steven felt they were too close to Bryn's own music to simply release as a remix album. Instead he decided to use them as the basis for new pieces, and re-edited and overdubbed the tapes, finally returning them to Bryn for approval. So began a period of collaboration by post. Each time Bryn would provide rhythms and each time Steven moulded the raw material only to have Bryn obliterate it again!! Finally in early 1997 the battle was over and an album was complete, but was somehow swept away under the deluge of Bryn's own release schedule and never issued. Now in the aftermath of Bryn's death these recordings are finally being issued by Soleilmoon in a limited edition of 600 copies at a special low price. For Muslimgauze fans these recordings are significant in that they represent one of the only instances of a true two-way collaboration betwen Bryn and another musician, as opposed to being simply a remix project. For Bass Communion fans the recordings are an opportunity to hear Steven's ambient textures, sonic fluctuations and low-end bass fused with the hard edged ethnic rhythms that were Bryn's trademark.
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