Musical band Ionah Trio entertained the Dhaka audience by presenting a several fusion compositions of Indo-European classics on Tuesday. The concert was held at Kudrat-i-Khuda auditorium of Oxford International School on Tuesday.
The fusion of sarod, tabla, guitar and shamisen was a pleasure for the concert attendees. In most of the compositions, the band combined a number of Indian ragas or fused Indian classical with European or Japanese tunes.
The members of the trio are Abhisek Lahiri on sarod, Parthasarathi Mukherjee on tabla and Headiki Tsuji on guitar and shamisen, a three-stringed traditional Chinese-Japanese musical instrument.
Accompanied by the first rain of Baishakh, the three-man band put the audience to a reverential silence with their first composition ‘Badrinath’, which is a mixture of morning ragas like bhairabhi, bhairabh and bibhas.
Following the pleasant ambience produced by the morning ragas, the band entertained the audience with a composition called ‘Music of Joy’ based on the night-time raga Kirwani.
Japanese musician Tsuji kept the audience absorbed in joy with his solo performance of a traditional Japanese folk composition called ‘Jongar-bushi’ on shamisen.
Responding to the request of the audience, Lahiri and Mukherjee played the sixteen beats evening raga Desh which was enjoyed by all. Beside this north Indian raga, they also played an Assamese folk composition, based on raga Dhani, which was equally captivating.
To conclude the concert, Ionah Trio presented their latest composition Duende. Lahiri informed that it was their debut performance of Duende.
GM Nizamuddin, principal of Oxford International School, who thoroughly enjoyed the programme told New Age, ‘An evening like this, amid the trouble time of our country, is really a memorable thing for me to remember.’
Another delighted audience Mahmud Sharif told, ‘It is a rare chance to enjoy performances by such renowned classical musicians’.
Ionah Trio was formed back in 2005, and has already performed in over 300 concerts across the world.’
‘As the Celtic word Ionah means creative energy, we try to give outlet to our creative energy through music,’ Lahiri explains to New Age.
The concert was arranged jointly by Music Alliance Worldwide and Oxford International School. Shiro Sadoshima, ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh was present at the concert as the chief guest.
-With New Age input
