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Title	Place	Collection
Majhi (The Boatman) was recorded in 2016 in Kolkata for the album Songs from 26H.BDMA-R-000576	Chattogram	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
‘Je agun legechhe ta hathat nibhbe na’. Kafil Ahmed and Nupur Sultana singBDMA-R-000575	Chattogram	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Little Boxes by Malvina ReynoldsBDMA-R-000574	Chattogram	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Ananyar Khonje in album Tumio Cheel Hao 1994BDMA-R-000573	Chattogram	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
This book comes out of a lecture I delivered in Halisahar on 15 November 2015 on the occasion of Bengali…BDMA-R-000572	Chattogram	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Prashanta had quite got into the mood of singing that evening and he sang a song he had learned from his…BDMA-R-000571	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Sushoma Mashima mentioned a composer Rukmini in the context of women’s songs and sang a few lines of the song.BDMA-R-000570	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Mashima expresses her disappointment with the words of songs as they are sung nowadays.BDMA-R-000569	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Mashima and others in the room listen to Sawabali’s ‘Je din jaabe akher tori’.BDMA-R-000568	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
We listen to cylinder 350, recorded by Bake on 15 April, which is described as a ‘sari gan’ (boatmensong).BDMA-R-000567	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
We listen together to ‘Shey dukh koibar katha noy go bolibo kare’, cylinder 343, sung by Fayazullah.BDMA-R-000566	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Mashima listens to cylinder 347, labelled ‘Shunu bondo shivsarane koi’.BDMA-R-000565	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
I begin by playing two songs recorded on Bake India II Cylinder 341 A, recorded on 1 April 1934.BDMA-R-000564	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
She can hear what we can’t because she knows what to listen out for.BDMA-R-000563	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
There was a song the listeners of Kaiarabani Dudhani sang for us, ‘Ot́ma lo̠lo̠’ (song 3, cylinder 4), which…BDMA-R-000562	Rajshahi	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Boge gupi do at Johar. The listeners immediately connected with the song.BDMA-R-000561	Rajshahi	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Listening to Boge gupi do in Kairabani. Recording by Sukanta Majumdar.BDMA-R-000560	Rajshahi	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Mathias Hansda reminisced about his days in the Kairabani Mission school, as a student and teacher, about the…BDMA-R-000559	Rajshahi	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
They were all insiders to the sound of Arnold Bake’s recordings from the Dumka Hills, yet they were all…BDMA-R-000558	Rajshahi	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
‘I have talked with many of them, they have different opinions [bhinno mot].BDMA-R-000557	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
UntitledBDMA-R-000556	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
UntitledBDMA-R-000555	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
In 2019 we had talked about going in search of Imam Bux Boyati’s descendants and finding old recordings of…BDMA-R-000554	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
In 2019, I went to meet Haresuzzaman Hares, folk song and folk art and craft collector from Kishoreganj, whose…BDMA-R-000553	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Nomo Nomo Hare take 2BDMA-R-000552	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Nomo Nomo HareBDMA-R-000551	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
BramhasangeetBDMA-R-000550	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Tomar Nam Niye Jai GoragoriBDMA-R-000549	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Joto Shob Kanar Hat BajarBDMA-R-000548	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Shuno Shuno PremomoyBDMA-R-000547	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Hori Bolo Nouka KhuloBDMA-R-000546	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Amay Par Koro HeBDMA-R-000545	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Roma Halder, also originally from Habiganj in Sylhet who had grown up in Hailakandi in Cachar, talks about her…BDMA-R-000544	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Roma Halder, also originally from Habiganj in Sylhet who had grown up in Hailakandi in Cachar, talks about her…BDMA-R-000543	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Turns out Ashim is a beautiful singer.BDMA-R-000542	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Turns out Ashim is a beautiful singer.BDMA-R-000541	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
UntitledBDMA-R-000540	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Ashim Kumar Das of Dhirai, Sunamganj, comes from a family of performing artistes.BDMA-R-000539	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Within the Sinha clan, Dilip Sinha Chowdhury is a nephew of Laksmisvar Sinha’s.BDMA-R-000538	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Ambarish Datta and I talk in his home in the Uposhohor area of Sylhet town on 18 January 2018BDMA-R-000537	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
It is hard to sum up in one sub-chapter the life-story of Laksmisvar Sinha (1905-1977) and my many stories of…BDMA-R-000536	Sylhet	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Sushovan Adhikary and Sumita Samanta look at images of the autograph book, Santiniketan, 27 April 2017.BDMA-R-000535	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
The photographs record the dynamic world of students and teachers of the asram, across age and gender, the…BDMA-R-000534	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
He also told me about his Pinakin Trivedi’s very deep connection with the songs of Tagore and sang lines of…BDMA-R-000533	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Salil, Atul and I had a long conversation about Pinakin Trivedi and music in New Era School and I left my…BDMA-R-000532	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Later, on 11 December 2018, when Salil was in Mumbai, I went from Kolkata to meet him and the musician Atul…BDMA-R-000531	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Pinakin Keshavlal Trivedi was a 21-year-old Gujarati student in Santiniketan whom Arnold Bake had recorded in…BDMA-R-000530	Dhaka	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Finally, Salamotbhai sang a song of Khoda Baksh Sai, ‘Tumi chhile ektara hole ektara’BDMA-R-000529	Khulna	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Mahfuzul Alom Milon sings Khoda Baksh Sai’s song about Benarasi Sadhu, an ascetic who sat in his shrine in…BDMA-R-000528	Khulna	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive
Nazrul Fokir sings a song of Khoda Baksh Sai and Salamotbhai explains the physiognomic reasons for the…BDMA-R-000527	Khulna	Courtesy of The Travelling Archive

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