Nirjher Chowdhury, an aspiring music composer and singer is going to release his first audio album titled Hridoye Robi which entirely consists of Tagore songs. The event is on April 4 at the Bengal Silpalaya, Dhanmondi. Filmmaker and architect Enamul Karim Nirjher will unwrap the album at the event where the singer is suppose to present all the new songs from his forthcoming album.
At the age of ten, Nirjher went to learn Tagore Songs in Chhayanaut, a Dhaka based popular musical institution and soon after, he began his line of work with a Tagore song Kon Aalote Praner Pradip Jwaliye Tumi Dhorai Aso along the consonance of his mother’s tune. “From my very childhood I wanted to release an entire album of only Tagore songs,” said Nirjher.
Mostly romantic and favorite Tagore songs are placed in the album and the selection does not shape any method or theme. Popular Tagore songs including Bhalobese Sokhi, Aj Jotsna Raate Sobai Gese Bone and Elem Natun Deshe along with others are in the track list. Western musical tune and instruments are used ingeniously in the album with the contemporary listeners in mind. “I used grand piano in a song and jazz pattern in another as we tried to provide western variation of music, keeping in mind the new generation listener of Tagore songs.”
At present, Nirjher is serving as a teacher at Chhayanaut. Though he previously composed music for a mixed album titled Maatir Sure which contains folksongs, Hridoye Robi is his first solo album in which he composed music alongside rendering the songs. Rokon Emon helped his compositional works. Currently, Nirjher is also a member of a band named Dharok, which formed aiming to bring hundred years’ old Bangla folk and other songs back in contemporary form. From Charjapad to Tagore, songs get contemporary reverberation. Dharok is planning to bring out their own album.
