- Noise
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Leftfield
- Non-music
- Spiritual music
- Post-industrial
- Ethnic music
- World music
Comment:
I am honoured to review a first issue (AZWD-156) from the discography of Azawad
for Recent Music Heroes. This net-label started off in spring of 2013
to would have released more than 150 issues thereafter. However, it
is surprising in 2016 there are no issues therefrom. In a word, do
much, die fast. I really hope I am wrong in this case. One of the
most prolific artists from the imprint is Noise Jihad and the project
is also represented there in liaison with Mutawwa`in. Both artists
provide just one composition – Noise Jihad`s one is a very fierce
and incisive noise attack chiming like an industrial opus for dead
men and unhappy ends. Mutawwa`in`s one is a quite different case
because it is an organic bond between uplifting islamic singing,
mid-range rhythms and the buried noise wall. In a nutshell, the
experience is really captivating and staggering. Indeed, one can
trace down the label’s and the artists` close relation with the
Islam culture and some very reluctant aspects from the underground
music thereby being obviously culturally influenced by such leftfield
artist as Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze who lived too short but reached
much to convey some problems to us related to Middle East and
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.