Ma Ja Le are Christopher Short (Electronic Guitars and Flutes) and Paul Vnuk Jr (Synths, Percussion and Voices). Using live improvisations, loops and studio wizardry, Ma Ja Le create exotic, dramatic, tribal-space sound worlds.

Ma Ja Le released their first CD "Dreams In The Orchards Of Saturn" in 1995. "Dreams..." chronicles the birth of Ma Ja Le in more ways than one. Besides being their debut CD, "Dreams" was recorded at their first four live performances. This CD captures the original raw, creative spark of improvised music. The music on "Dreams" was recorded live to DAT with no further studio dubbing or manipulation. "Dreams" has received fantastic reviews in Wind and Wire, Amientrance and Ujaama's Ambient Experience to name a few. Rarely does a debut CD (especially a live one) contain such a high artistic level of music.

Three years later after cutting their teeth in live performance (including concerts opening for Trance-Mission, Steve Roach and Robert Rich), Ma Ja Le teamed with Vir Unis to create "Imaginarium." This tribal ambient classic mixed and produced by Steve Roach, debuted at #2 on Nav's top 100 charts.

In 1999 Ma Ja Le released exclusive tracks on the Hypnos "Weightless and Effortless" compilation and the now rare Halcyon records release "Oscillations."

In 2000 Ma Ja Le teamed with master minimalist James Johnson for a series of live concerts and a highly praised limited edition CD, "Live Under A Harvest Moon" (limited to 150 copies world wide, complete with original signed and numbered mini art prints by Chris Short).

2001 has been a very busy year, Ma Ja Le and James Johnson continue their collaborative effort with "Seed" a truly amazing work of power, beauty and erotica. Hailed by author Jim Brenholts as “Symphonic Tribal Minimalism”, “Seed” was mastered by Trevor Sadler and is the first HDCD space music release. It was released in November and also contained more stunning visual artwork by Chris.

Also, May saw the release of the first solo effort by Paul , “Silence Speaks In Shadow” on the Hypnos label. This 74 min cd of atmospheric synths and city scapes, is sure to calm the soul and excite the mind. “Silence..” has already garnered rave reviews and also made it into the NAV top 50 charts.

In September Chris, along with James Johnson and Vir Unis performed “Aqua Culture” a live improvisational performance at Chicago's Blumgarten Gallery. That show also featured an exhibit of Chris' prints. Also at that September 9th performance, the trio released a special “Aqua Culture 1” cd of original music recorded in rehearsals for the performance.

The last Ma Ja Le project of 2001 is a musical library of loops for software company, Sonic Foundry.