Music

Popular band Obscure will present its popular songs at a phono-live programme at 11:45pm today on Desh TV. The band will also render songs requested by the viewers over telephone. The viewers can also talk to the members of the band at the programme. ‘We will present our old yet very popular numbers including Mamotay Cheye ... Read more

Noted singer Chandana Majumder will present songs of the leading bards of the country at a phono-live programme on Maasranga TV at 11:00pm today. Besides rendering Lalon’s popular songs like Samay Geley Sadhon Hobey Na, Manush Guru Nishtha Jar, Ei Sob Dekhi Kanar Haat Bazaar, Chandana Majumder will render timeless compositions of Shah Abdul Karim ... Read more

The musicians in the country hope that this year will bring success in the industry which has been severely suffering from decline in sale of albums. The musicians expect the government and production houses will help them solve the major two problems- royalty sharing and piracy- prevailing in the music industry so that they can ... Read more

The Dhaka-based music band Aronno launched its second album Bhalobasa.com in a launching ceremony at Russian Cultural Centre Auditorium on Friday. The band presented songs from the album at the launching ceremony. Bhalobasa.com, which is released after six years of the band’s first album Taar Chhire Gechhe, is a theme

Joler Gaan entertained a full-hall audience presenting the band’s popular numbers on Saturday at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre auditorium in Gulshan. The band began the show with the song Sua jao. The band also played popular numbers from its sole album Atal Joler Gaan such as Jhora pata, Bakul phul and Dure thaka megh and ... Read more

Popular rock band Prometheus is going to release its 17th album online this month. The title song of the album, Ebhabe din ondher moto cholte parena, has recently been released in the band’s online portal www.prometheusbd.com and in the music portal www.levelzerodb.com. All the five songs of the album deliver strong social messages. These songs are ... Read more

Popular band Feedback plans to release its 11th album early next year after 11 years of eclipse. The band released its 10th album O2 in 2002. Bandleader Foad Naser Babu, who is also the music composer and keyboardist of the band, said that the band has prepared ‘some very good tracks’ for the upcoming 11th ... Read more

Bengal Classical Music Fest Chaurasia cheers up charming dawn Over thirty thousand audience in the early hours on Sunday waited till the dawn at the Army Stadium to enjoy pundit Hariprasad Chaurasia’s morning ragas on the flute. And the legendary Indian flutist satisfied the thirst of Dhaka audience with the melody of the wind instrument ... Read more

Noted singer Tapan Chowdhury entertained the audience with the soulful presentation of popular songs on Saturday at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre at Gulshan 1, Dhaka. In the solo concert, the singer initially rendered songs of his choice and then presented songs of audience’s choice. The popular contemporary

Popular singer SI Tutul entertained the audience presenting his popular songs on Friday at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Gulshan. The singer began his solo with a very popular romantic number Keu prem kore, a playback of the popular Bangla film Bachelor, which has been composed by Tutul himself. He also entertained the

Musical band Sohojia presented songs from its debut album Rangmistry launched on Monday at an open air concert at the Bakul Tala of the faculty of fine arts at Dhaka University. Audience enjoyed the strong message oriented songs presented by the band at the concert. Other bands and solo artistes

The band troupe Silverlight won the Robi Singer Hunt contest, the first time introduced competition through social media in Bangladesh. Solo singer Niger Sultan Mimi secured the second position. The winner of the competition will win a music album deal worth BDT one lakh from Robi Axiata Ltd. The grand finale was held on

For the first time popular music director of present time Ahmed Humayun has rendered a song with promising singer Lamis for a playback track. Recently recording of the playback track was done at Ahmed Humayun’s own studio in the city’s Eskaton area. This playback track will be used in Mohammad Hossain directed movie “I Don’t ... Read more

Popular singer Kumar Biswajit is busy recording songs for his upcoming 27th solo album. The album, containing tracks for the audience of all age groups, will feature different genres of songs including romantic, sentimental, traditional and others, shared the singer in an interview with New Age. ‘More importantly, the audience

The two-day rock music fair organised at the Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi got positive response from the rock music lovers for its atypical characteristics. Besides enjoying music performed by the underground bands, viewers enthusiastically participated in interactions with the rockers, lyricists, sound engineers and music video makers.

Eminent Tagore singer Sadi Muhammad will be performing in live concerts in three Scandinavian countries of Europe – Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He is leaving Dhaka next week for a fortnight tour in the three countries. The celebrated singer has been invited by the Bangladeshi expatriates living in the Scandinavian countries and they will be ... Read more

Talented musician Swani Zubayeer will direct the music of a film for the first time. The film titled Ghashphool directed by Akram Khan contains two songs namely – Shomoy theme giyechhilo, lyric by Mohammad Rafiquazzaman and composed by Lucky Akhand; and Bohudin por, lyric and composition by Swani Zubayeer herself. ‘I have lent my voice for

Only a few out of the 70 audio and video albums released in a week during the Eid-ul-Azha could make profit, said sources at the production houses of the country. The production houses admitted that their strategy of releasing huge number of albums to resurrect the slumped trade audio market had actually failed. They further admitted ... Read more

Shahartoli came to discussion after releasing a song on Felani tragedy that made the people protest against such barbaric border killings by Border Security Force of India. In fact, most of the songs of its debut album, Borabor, released by the band in 2011 were social message oriented. The band, which has also