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Artist
Sandipan
12+ albums
about
Sandipan’s (pronounced Shondipon) came into public limelight with the recent release of his debut album SHONABONDHU (©Ektaar 2004) The 12 folk tunes in SHONABONDHU are by legendary and timeless poet-philosophers of Bangladspirit esh such as Fakir Lalon Shain, Hasan Raja and Ram Prasad Sen with more-recent compositions by Abdul Gafur Hali, MN Akhter et al. The selection also showcases a specially-collected track in the local dialect of a near-extinct community living in the southeastern island of Saint Martins. It is titled Modhu koi koi and surprisingly has a lilt reminiscent of tribal melodies of the nearby Hill Tracts. The entire album was excellently conceived and composed by the singer-songwriter, music-arranger Bappa Mazumder. Bappa infused a lively east-west rhythmic style into the album that especially highlights the agility and mellifluous quality of Sandipan’s voice and renders the age-old melodies in the album in a current flavour. The song from the album that’s been a big hit with listeners is the title track Shonabondhu itself. Shephali Ghosh -the legendary queen-of-folk - had first popularized the song in the mid ’70s. It was then arranged in a traditional 3x3 jhumur-taal but Bappa beefed up the current version with a funkier 4x4 kaharba and gave it a whole new life. Sandipan received his early musical education under the tutelage of the late Ustad Miheer Kanti Lal from his hometown Chittaging. Later at Kolkata’s “Banichakra” he received vocal training in Rabi
