Critically endangered · provisional
An archive of Bangladesh's traditional music
Shurer Manchitra
সুরের মানচিত্র
Songs of Bangladesh's rivers, villages and fairs — recorded, credited and kept for everyone.
- Recordings
- 296
- Artists
- 59
Listen now
Recently added
The newest recordings, ready to play. They keep playing while you explore the map and the archive.
Explore by district
Every district, and what the archive has found there so far.
Choose a district to hear what was recorded there.
District map
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Boundaries: OCHA/HDX (CC BY-IGO)Across Bangladesh
All districts
64 districts
- 296
- Recordings
- 19
- Artists
- 40
- Traditions
- 14
- Traditions at risk
Tap or click any district on the map to open it here, with its recordings ready to play.
Traditions at risk
Forms whose practice is thinning. The smaller the count, the more urgent the work.
Critically endangered · provisional
Endangered · provisional
Endangered · provisional
Endangered · provisional
Endangered · provisional
These statuses are provisional: they were set when the archive was seeded, and a curator has not yet reviewed them.
The people who carry the songs
Performers, bards and composers, each with the recordings the archive holds of them.
Photo: Rossi101, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: TV Rajbari, CC BY 3.0
Photo: SAYED MEHBUB RAHMAN SOHEL, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Ujjal Das, CC BY-SA 4.0
Written from the archive
Curated pieces that follow one tradition, one journey or one singer through the collection.
Moushumi Bhowmik
Moushumi Bhowmik
মৌসুমী ভৌমিক
Tell us about a musician you know
A village or neighbourhood may hold a performer or a form that has never been written down. What you send is checked by the archive team before anything joins the archive.
- You send what you know
- The archive team checks it
- It joins the archive
Look for a song, a singer, a place
Search runs across recordings, people, traditions, places and stories, in Bangla and English at once.
Romanised spellings are matched too, so Hason, Hasan and Hachhon all find the same person.