Name: TOBU EI VOTE E CHAI by kabirsuman2014
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Description: Composed and performed by Kabir Suman, April 2019

"Bhule jawa he shudur sMriti" - A Modern Bengali Song written and put to tune by Dilip Kumar Ray. The Maestro must have made rhe song in 1930s. I don't know if this song, recorded in his voice, exists on the market. Dilip Kumar Ray's son have me a recording of this song in 1996 to pick it up from the recording so I could perform it on the Dilip Kumar Ray Birth Centenary Celebration. Sri Dipankar Acharya is on the tabla. This recording was made on that evening at Kalamandir, Calcutta, and I remastered it on iZotope Ozone 6 the day before yesterday. As opposed to most of Dilip KUmar Ray's songs, this one is a Modern Bengali Song with no mentionable element of devotion in it.


BHULE JAWA

"AAJIYO TOMARE"...written and put to tune by Dilip Kumar Ray. He recorded it too, and thus made it so difficult for those who came after him to venture to sing it even in the protection of bedroom walls. In the structure of this song the Maestro uses the "taalpherta" mode of KIRTAN. In the temperament and musical idioms he mixes Modern Bengali Music idioms with those of Padaboli Kirtan. This recording was made on the Birth Centenary Celebration of Dilip Kumar Ray in 1996 in Calcutta. I mastered it afresh before I uploaded it. - DIPANKAR ACHARYA, an outstanding musician, was on the Tabla.

AJIO TOMARE

"KON CHHONDO" - written and put to tune by Dilip Kumar Ray, the Phenomenon in World Music. As all other songs composed by him, this song also bears the inimitable stamp of his unique singing style. An incompetent pygmy, I have only tried to follow the salient features of his style. This recording was also made at Kalamandir, Calcutta, on the Birth Centenary of Dilip Kumar Ray in 1996. Dipankar Acharya was on the tabla and perhaps half the credit goes to him. I have remastered the recording to give it some brightness. Enjoy the music.

KON CHHONDO.KABIR

"Ma amare obhoy dili na." A "shyamageeti" written by Akbar Ali, a Muslim poet and lyricist who lived in Chattagram (now in Bangladesh) in the late 18th century. I put it tune, humbly, and recorded it today, 9 November 2015. 

MA AMARE OBHOY.final

"AAJ CHOL SHOKI..." - A Dilip Kumar Ray song, a Song of Songs, I performed on his Birth Centenary Celebration at Kalamandir, Calcutta, in 1986. Dipankar Acharya, the Great, was on the Tabla. I remain grateful to Dilip Kumar Ray's "Son" who gave me the roginal recordings by Dilip Kumar to learn from. 

AJ CHOL SHOKHI.KABIR

ROHINGA

SOME BANGLADESH AND WEST BENGAL FRIENDS TOLD ME TO MAKE THIS SONG. THE FIRST RECORDING I DID AND THE FIRST MIX I UPLOADED WAS OF EXTREMELY POOR QUALITY. SO I REDID THE VOICE AND TOOK ANOTHER MIX WHICH I AM UPLOADING NOW. THIS IS SOMEWHAT BETTER.

TOBU EI VOTE E CHAI

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