Been lost into this tune for a long time. I ended up deciding to make a home studio version of it. Hope you enjoy listening!

St James Inframary

A cover of Lalon shah's most meaningful work.

Ami Opar Hoye

A cover of Paban Das Baul's most magnificent tune.

Bashi Tui Bajish Na Re

Bibabi

Shakil Sarker is a soulful musician with powerful vocal and instrumental expressions. Shakil’s musical work mostly resembles Folk, Folk-Rock, Fusion, Blues, Soul and Funk genre. Currently, Shakil is involved into solo and duo projects, along with his band “Jojon”- a world music band focusing on a mystic fusion blend between eastern and western music. 

Recently, Shakil formed another band focusing on Soul-Blues-Funk music. 

In the world of Folk-Fusion music, apart from several Bengali folk musicians like Lalon Shai and Paban Das Baul, Shakil is mainly influenced by Barcelona Gypsy Orchestra, Bangla band.

In the world of Soul-Blues, Shakil’s influences come from Lightning Hopkins, James Brown, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Skip James, James (Feelings band), Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr, The Teskey Brothers, St, Pauls & The Broken Bones, Otis Redding.  

Shakil was born in Bangladesh and lived there till he was 23. Social injustice, discrimination, corruption, and his dedication to natural science brought him out of the country to Sweden; his current station. Shakil started to realize his attachment and motivation into music at a later stage of his life. Since mid-2018, Shakil started to completely devote himself to learn and grow more in the world of music. Such growing up in different countries with friends from several parts of the world has provided him with a meaningful and powerful perspective in his musical journey.