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Bangla Band
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A Bangla band is any (modern) musical band that performs
solely or mainly in the Bengali language and which uses Western principles
of music.
Mohiner Ghoraguli is widely credited with being the first Bangla Band,
though it did not achieve wide recognition in its time. Later, as Western
influences became more widespread, the Bangla band became popular with young
people during the 1980s and 1990s, both in India and Bangladesh, and has
since become entrenched in modern Bengali culture.
Gautam Chatterjee, founder of Mohiner Ghoraguli
Gautam Chatterjee, founder of Mohiner Ghoraguli
Bangla bands use a wide variety of styles such as rock, pop, hard rock,
heavy metal,grunge, folk, and fusion. Their music is influenced both by
popular American music as well as traditional Bengali folk music such as
shyama sangeet and baul.
Like popular music in other countries, Bangla bands are very popular among
Bengali young people |
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Band music became popular in Bangladesh in
the early 1960s, with the formation of Zinga Goshty in Chittagong. After
the independence, many bands were formed. Souls, yet another band from
Chittagong, was one of the first bands to gain nationwide popularity
with their original lyrics. Most bands of this time played in hotels
around the country, however most of them focused on playing English
songs. During the early 1980s, the scene began to change as more bands
started writing original songs and releasing Bangla song albums.
Feedback, Miles, Souls and Renaissance were some of the most popular
bands of the 1980s and early 1990s.
In the 1990s, the band music scene truly came
into its own with the emergence of more and more quality bands like LRB,
Warfaze, Ark and Feelings.
Today, the scene is vibrant with new names such as Aurthohin, Artcell,
Black, Bangla and others. Aurthohin, Artcell and Black have greatly
impacted the recent music scene of Bangladesh, especially among young
adults. Black and Artcell are normally credited respectively for the
first Alternative Rock and Progressive Rock Band of Bangladesh, while
Aurthohin is arguably the most popular Heavy Metal band in the country
since the early musicians of this genre, i.e. Rockstrata and Warfaze.
Arbovirus has recently emerged as one of the more popular grunge bands.
It may be important to note that most of these bands are influenced more
by American Thrash/Heavy/Progressive/Death Metal music than New Wave of
British Heavy Metal music. |
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