Monday, November 10th, 2008 at
12:18 am
Du Kul Bhese Jaay – Rabindra Sangeet Duets
Singers: Swagata and Jayati
Music CD by: Sagarika
Tagline: Dwoityo Rabindrasangeet – Matir Gaane Rabindranath.
Du Kul Bheshe Jai
Du Kul Bhese Jaay is a recent Rabindra Sangeet Album released on October 21st, 2008 by SAGARIKA. I am not really sure what the album tag line “Maatir Gaan-e Rabindranath“ means in context of the songs chosen. The songs sung by the duo are among the most common Rabindra Sangeet sung by numerous singers. The background music pattern used has also been heard widely. There is nothing special about this album in that sense.
Jayati Chakraborty has a nice melodious voice that shows that she has been a student of music for quite some time. At certain notations, though, she probably needed a bit more perfection.
Swagata tried his best to sing traditionally. However he needs some improvements in pronunciation. He also needs to concentrate on the notations that uses some broken pieces of “taan”.
The good side of the album is the limited volume of background music, compared to many other recent Tagore song albums by newcomers, that did not sound painful to me.
Du Kul Bhese Jaay -Tracklist of songs
- Amar Bela Je Jaay
- Aaj Khela Bhangar Khela
- Hridayer E Kul O Kul
- Amar Mon Bole Chai Chai
- Amar Sonar Bangla
- Ami Tarei Jani
- Bhalobese, Sakhi
- Tomar Khola Haowa
- Anmona Anmona
- Ami Tarei Khunje Berai
Reviewed by: S. Basu
Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at
9:40 pm
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.
