Megher Bari by Jayati Chakraborty<

Contemporary Bengali music raises many a brow from the philharmonic Kolkatans, often with expressions of disgust and endless complaints about the quality of singers and composers.Though, the convictions and misconceptions have been proved null and void by FM channels bringing many fresh voices into limelight with a good number of ‘hit’ songs to their credit.

Jayati-Chakraborty

Jayati Chakraborty, a new promise in the Bengali music circuit swings with a dexterity from her pure classical vocal renditions to Rabindranath’s songs and is creating ripples in the genre of Adhunik Bengali songs. Megher Baari (saregama india ltd), Jayati’s sharadiya offering of eight Bengali songs composed by some of the most gifted musicians like Rupankar, Sreekanto Acharya, Sameer Chatterji and Gautam Ghoshal has some melodious numbers worth a few rewinds. The singer deftly exploits her impeccable classical taiyari in the title track, set to raag desh while her ease with western numbers is evident in the soothing and mellow Esho, esho. The skillful use of esraj and harmonium in Udashin Sharadin takes us on a nostalgic journey down the memory lane, and the folk based Saiyan Saiyan has echoes of the immortal composition of Hridaynath Mangeshkar ‘De Dol Dol‘, with an individualistic touch. However,the song which captures the singer at her best is Jabei Jokhon (composed by Sreekanto Acharya), an extremely melodious number, penned by Arna Sil.

Pratyush Banerjee’s arrangement is worth praising, though his use of the violin piece in the title track is a straightlift from one of Sanjoy Choudhury’s (Salil Choudhury’s son) arrangements. The music lovers can delightfully spend their weekend with a trip to Megher Baari.

Note: Album review by Gaanmela Team Member Kaustav Goswami. Please check the TEAM page to know more about Kaustav.

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