The Travelling Archive: Folk Music From Bengal, by Various

The Travelling Archive: Folk Music From Bengal

by Various

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1.	In The Marketplace 01:32	buy track
2.	'Jhumur' Song 05:11	buy track
3.	Dotara Solo 02:48	buy track
4.	Boatman's Song 03:32	buy track
5.	Song To Goddess Kali 03:29	buy track
6.	Wedding Song 02:58	buy track
7.	Murshidi Song 05:42	buy track
8.	Baul Song From Kushtia, Bangladesh 04:49	buy track
9.	Baul Song From West Bengal, India 08:48	buy track
10.	Songs From A Tea Garden 01:57	buy track

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Field Recordings from Bangladesh, India, and the Bengali Diaspora.

The Travelling Archive is a journey through the folk music of Bengal. It is run by Calcutta-based Bengali singer, writer and researcher Moushumi Bhowmik and sound recordist and sound designer Sukanta Majumdar. They have been making field recordings of songs and stories across Bangladesh and eastern India, even the Bengali diaspora in East London, since 2003; documenting and disseminating their research through archives, presentation-performances, art works, and their own independent record label and website.

Moushumi and Sukanta get out there, travel all over, become friends and live with the musicians, record them in their homes and villages, on their rivers, in their tea shops and work fields. Bengal, which includes Calcutta India, Dhaka Bangladesh and more than 250 million people, is an amazingly diverse yet unique region, home to some of the largest cities in the world and plenty of uncategorizable and diverse folk music, including those wandering minstrels, the Bauls.

The music and instrumentation presented on this LP features solo voice and chorus vocals, harmonium, dotara (four-string fretless lute), ektara (traditional one string drone instrument), dugi (small kettle drum), bamboo flute, violin, and even an empty popcorn tub played like a drum. This is a diverse and magnificent sampling of what remains a massive archive of folk music from this region and Sublime Frequencies hopes to continue to release additional volumes in the future. Produced for Sublime Frequencies by Robert Millis.

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released September 2, 2012

Design, Photography By [Cover Photographs] – Robert Millis
Photography By – The Travelling Archive
Recorded By, Mastered By – Sukanta Majumdar
Research, Liner Notes – Moushumi Bhowmik

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Sublime Frequencies Seattle, Washington

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more