During the days, he played the original songs and then the remixes he had made, trying to understand the ‘mistakes’ he had made. It produced some spectacular Bengali music and over the years, has been instrumental in creating a warm, familiar soundscape for the Pujas. That was the beginning of the end of the Puja album,” my father recollected. Here’s a list of 13 such songs that must have been played on a loop at a pandal if you’ve grown up in Kolkata or around the city. ‘NILANJANA’, NACHIKETANachiketa burst into the Bengali music scene in the 90s, alongside several other new-age composers, who sang what was called ‘jibonmukhi gaan’ — songs whose rhetoric was close to real-life conversations.

Source: Huffington Post October 21, 2020 13:30 UTC