World's largest privately held collection of Yiddish & Jewish 78 RPM records for the Mayrent Institute at University of Madison in Wisconsin

April 1, 2013

Christopher King is currently engaged in remastering the world's largest privately held collection of Yiddish & Jewish 78 RPM records for the Mayrent Institute at University of Madison in Wisconsin. The collection contains over 9,000 unique sides and Mr. King has remastered over 4,000 sides.

The purpose of the Long Gone Sound Series is not didactic in nature nor scholarly in scope. Rather, the goal of this venture is to create a catalyst for musical and cultural transformation. We are providing an aperture through which the curious can enter and emerge either famished or full. This is an attempt to capture, if just fleetingly, a discrete frequency in the spectrum of our fading sounds, an audio complement to “Specters Of The Spectrum.”

Christopher King is a re-mastering engineer, producer, and author. He specializes in pre-war rural American music (with an emphasis on Cajun) and various Eastern European, Balkan and Mediterranean musics.

He started Long Gone Sound Productions in 1999. He won a Grammy in 2002 and has been nominated six times in total.

World's largest privately held collection of Yiddish & Jewish 78 RPM records for the Mayrent Institute at University of Madison in Wisconsin

Contact Chris at:

longgonesound@gmail.com

Download CV of Christopher C. King here