Berlin-based Maltese label My Fair Lsdy, founded by Luke Scerri (a.k.a Fake Ophelia) and Belgian Verta Hermov, has released a mix of Maltese songs from the late 1960s and ’70s titled .
The curated selection of songs includes tracks by The Malta Bums, Vanni Pule & Mary Anne, The Pirates, The Jaywalkers, The Lost Sound and more. “ was an idea I came up with after going through the online and physical archives of records and YouTube videos and essentially realised there was no singular place where you could find a good selection of these great pop songs, which I felt was a pity,” says Scerri. “With My Fair Lsdy’s co-founder Verta Hermov, we decided to sit down and go through all that we found to assimilate a two-part compilation of the dawn of Maltese pop music from the ’60s and ’70s.
” Seeing as this was a completely non-profitable venture, the pair decided the fairest and best way to disseminate the music was through a mix. “This way we thought people would have to just press play and enjoy the curation as opposed to having the option to simply choose the songs,” explains Scerri, saying that they wanted to create a similar experience to how they felt listening to these songs the first time. Scerri and Hermov were keen on sharing the tracks as they were originally recorded to capture their true spirit.
“Some of the more well-known tunes of the time were re-recorded in more recent decades and, in all honesty, we felt that they lost their original spirit. One.
