HAJI MAJI

I’ll be heading down to LA this weekend to attend the Grammy Awards. “Longing for the Past” has been nominated in the Historical category along with four other great projects. Win or lose, we’re proud to have been nominated and are excited to represent the whole team that made “Longing for the Past” a great project; Lance and April Ledbetter from Dust-to-Digital, Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (sound mastering and restoration), Jon Ward (analog to digital transfer, research, and more!) and the five authors besides myself – Terry Miller, Kit Young, David Harnish, Jason Gibbs, Sooi Beng Tan.

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Haji Maji has been dormant for some time now, and here’s the reason why – the last two years have been occupied with completing a project of epic proportions, which I’m happy to announce is finished and is officially released today (October 1st)!
Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia is a 4 CD set with 90 tracks that span six decades of 78 rpm recordings from Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. This project is being published by the wonderful folks at Dust-to-Digital, and because of their usual commitment to quality design, I was able to push the limits of what a 78 rpm reissue set can be. The CDs are accompanied by a 9″x 6″, 272-page hardcover book that has over 250 images of record labels and sleeves, and vintage photographs of Southeast Asian musicians. The CDs and book come housed in a handsome slipcase.