The Charukala (Faculty of Fine Arts, DU)-based musical troupe “Trimara-Ekti Gaan-er Dol” has been immersed in acoustic music and Baul songs for the last six years. Chandan, a student of Oriental Art at FFA, leads the seven-member troupe.
Inspired by his guitarist father Khandakar Rezaul Alam and two sisters (both singers), from a very early age Chandan began learning music formally from his uncle Shopon Bibagi.
“Observing the loopholes of metal music, we decided to go into acoustic music, that means taking the musical notation just after playing it instrumentally so that music can be kept at its purest form,” Chandan explains.
Chandan is the main vocalist, composer and lyricist of the troupe.
The other members are Palash, a student of Drawing and Painting, who contributes with his vocal, dhol and banshi; Tarek, a student of Print Making, lending his voice to Baul songs; Sumi (a “Natun Kuri” gold medallist), an MBA student in the Faculty of Business Studies, DU, contributing with her vocal; Sagor, a student of Ceramics and a theatre activist of Nagarik Natyangan Ensemble, who plays gypsy and octopad; Rajon, (a “Natun Kuri” gold medallist), who plays tabla and AB Jony plays mandira.
The troupe performs at concerts in and around Dhaka. Apart from songs of their own, they perform Tagore, Nazrul and folk songs at the concerts.
“We like singing of morality and humanity,” says Sumi.
An album titled “Agamikal-er Shurjo” featuring nine original songs under the label of Agniveena is in the pipeline. The titles of the songs are “Agamikal-er Shurjo”, “Ditam Ditam”, “Swapno Mela”, “Jhumur Ghungur”, “Shubidhabadi” and so forth.
“Folk music is the essence of our culture. We’ll continue to work with folk songs,” Tarek says.
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