![]() ![]() ![]() The current line-up of the band includes Rahul Das, Mohammad Atiqul Islam Kanak, Jarnal Md Saiful Islam, Rana Sarwar, Sanjay Saha, Shariful Islam, Mohammad Abu Bakar Siddiki, Shyamal Karmakar and Fazlul Kader Chowdhury. Their second album, ‘The Cage’, is going to be released very soon. The band released their first album entitled ‘Otol Joler Gaan’ on Pohela Boishakh in April, 2013. They have also performed in various local TV channels and Radio live shows. Joler Gaan has also collaborated with well-known French musician Abaji and the Scottish musician Colin Blakey. The band performed in cities like Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong and Khulna, and at important venues such as the Russian Cultural Centre, Dhaka Goethe Institute, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Jahangirnagar University and Chhayanaut, among others. They subsequently performed at Royal Museum in Edinburgh and at the London Mela in London. Joler Gaan appeared as a folk fusion band, their journey started on 2006. Joler Gaan began its musical journey at the World Sufi Festival in Glasgow in 2006. The band also arranged online live concert. More importantly, it is earthy and connected to the soil. Their music is very much contemporary, yet distinctive. ![]() The lyrics of Joler Gaan are based on what the band describes as ‘human stories’ of love, sorrow, pain, despair, courage, nature and other ideas and emotions which people can relate to them. Dark at night our dreams express themselves on a sailing boat in. We whisper the symphonies of this genre in soft and soothing voices. It is composed of theatre activists and visual artists. 'We are the children of the soil where the river purifies us. The band believes that their spiritual and emotional awareness originated from water and hence, they are Joler Gaan, meaning music of the water. ![]()
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