If someone asks what are they are singing about, reply, what is you are listening about? What are you looking at?–Ruchir Joshi in Eleven Miles In this journey, the word baul has been one of the most difficult to understand and interpret. There are countless works and initiatives on the bauls—religious studies, ethnomusicological and anthropological research, travelogues, collections of poetry, films, recordings, sleeve notes, websites, performances on YouTube, blogs, debates and discussions, NGO…
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দ্য ট্র্যাভেলিং আর্কাইভ: শ্রবণ, স্মৃতি আর সময়ের গল্প
মৌসুমী ভৌমিক
২০০১ সালের ফেব্রুয়ারি মাসে ঢাকায়, একুশে টেলিভিশনের স্টুডিওতে ফরাসি পরিচালক স্তেফান জুরদাঁ (Stefane Jourdain) সঙ্গীত সংগ্রাহক ও পরিব্রাজক দেবেন ভট্টাচার্যকে (১৯২১-২০০১) নিয়ে তাঁর ফিল্ম, Music According to Deben Bhattacharya-র জন্য শুটিং করছিলেন। সেদিন ঐ টেলিভিশনে দেবেনবাবুর সাক্ষাৎকার অনুষ্ঠানের শুটিং ছিল।১ সাক্ষাৎকার নেবেন অভিনেতা আল…
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‘Every passion borders on the chaotic but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.’ –Walter Benjamin, ‘Unpacking my Library’, in Harry Zohn transl. Illuminations, edited with an Introduction by Hannah Arendt. (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p.60. My first encounter with Arnold Bake’s Bengal recordings was at the British Library in 2004. It took years for this encounter to start becoming a ‘collector’s passion’. I kept meeting him on the road, as he was part of the road that I…
Rangan Momen
Rangan Momen, a London based Bengali, runs Sadhu Guru Boishnob Recordings, a label dedicated to producing high quality field recordings of Baul-Fakir songs and music, mainly from the Nadia region of Bengal. All the recordings are done in a village in the Bangladesh side of Nadia and recorded by people within the Baul-Fakir community. Sadhu Guru Boishnob Recordings has produced a beautifully crafted CD of gostho-lila songs sung by women and men from the Lalon Sai linage of Baul-Fakir, though the…
Voices of Naogaon: The Songs of Shamsul Fakir
Field recording by Sukanta Majumdar & Moushumi Bhowmik in Bagolpara, Naogaon documenting rare traditional lyrics and vocal arrangements.
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