Fingers (and ears that matter)

I was going through my digital photo album until I came across a photo that I totally forgot about. It's a picture of Mohd. Syafiq Abdullah (formerly known as Greg Henderson), me, Fauzi Marzuki and Peter Chong, in studio 4 at Synchrosound Studios, PJ.



All of us are Producer-Engineers (yours truly being the most junior) and successful in our own right. Syafiq was responsible for the big sound in Ella's 1998 album, El. Fauzi Marzuki was most notable when he wrote Legenda for Sheila Majid's tribute to P. Ramlee. Peter Chong is the foremost authority in Malaysian audio engineering having the extensive experience in recording legends during his heyday at King's. I have, at several points in my career, worked with all of these highly-skilled and talented individuals and find the experience very enlightening and humbling. Looking at this photo reminded me how it was when the music industry was still in the early stage of its cancer: we were still smiling.