underground music history in bangladesh

In this literature review assignment I am going to explore the origin of the band music in Bangladesh. My research topic is “Problems in adopting the unfamiliar heavy music in Bangladesh”. And now I will do my literature review on “History of heavy metal or band music in Bangladesh”. In this article I will describe some answers of several questions like as, what is heavy metal music or band music, who are the audience of this genre, how this genre of music comes to Bangladesh, how band music become popular in Bangladesh, and I will also describe about some bands in Bangladesh. For doing this literature review I used some web articles as my resource. The list of the resources I will use for the purpose of this assignment those are given below
• Wikipedia the free Encyclopedia
• Web articles Bangladesh is traditionally very rich in its musical heritage. Modernization of Bangla music occurred at different times and most of these modernization processes happened independently of western influence. Now the definition of the band music is a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type and the Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, originally in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. People who are the students or young aged are mainly the audience of this genre of music. Mahmood described in his article that “Bangladesh band history starts from 1960. The first band of Bangladesh is called Bangladesh. The founder of the band is Mr.Rumi Omer . Then many bands formed . It is hard to know some bands succeed and others fall short. It was a handful of self-taught musicians that got together to create original sounds and jump-started the rock scene like never before. Their efforts resulted in the birth of the ‘Bangla Rock Scene’. Among the pioneering groups in the late ‘60s were iconic bands like Windy Side of Care (Rafique Mazhar Islam Saju and Rafi Omar) (Ex-Iolites), The Lightnings, Rambling Stones, Ugly Phases and Insex Dui, they eventually became the veterans of band music. They didn’t have the privilege of expensive instruments or sound systems, which the present rockers now take for granted.

In 1963, Zinga was the first Orchestra Band in Bangladesh formed in Chittagong by a young group student of Chittagong College. a short time, Zinga got the popularity; also they had to face criticism from the conservative people. But Shafat (Band Leader & Vocal) believed that criticism should be taken positively and Zinga brought a new flavour in Bangla Music. They started playing popular Tagore songs, Nazrul songs and hit movie songs in western Orchestra style. Zinga is the first band who used western instruments of Drums, Guitar, and Piano. Within novelty never goes without criticism. Shafat’s two teenage sisters Najma & Shehla Parveen joined the band in 1964. Both Najma & Shehla not only had outstanding vocals but were also skilled of playing Piano, Bongo and Drums. It is noted that they were well-trained by Shafat himself. Najma & Shehla immediate published several hit songs: Fule Fule Dhaka, Duti Mon, Shagor Tire and Najma’s evergreen hit song Tomari Jibone.”

In 1970, Azam khan imerged in Bangladesh band scene. he is called the pioneer of Bangladeshi rock music. The Akhand brothers (lucky and happy) are also started creating magnetic songs in the industry at that time.

According to the Mahmood” in the old bands there are many bands that are still going very strong. There is souls(1970), feedback(1976), miles(1978), renaissance, lrb, feelings, nagor baul, waves and many other bands who were very well since they started. Miles and waves were more underground. Souls was perking up to be a mainstreamer and soon got themselves a record deal. In 1980, they released their debut album Super Souls, which was one of the first albums to be released by a music group in Bangladesh. Not only they were popular for over a decade, but also served to launch popular artists like Ayub Bachchu (who created LRB) and solo pop performers Tapan Chowdhury and Kumar Bishwajit” It was around 1986 when Miles presenting hard rock in Dhaka. One fine day my elder brother came home and announced that there was a band, which was performing songs of Iron Maiden. It was very difficult to believe. But then I witnessed it myself in the next concert. It was mind blowing to see them covering several numbers of Iron Maiden and they did very well indeed! The band was called Rock Strata followed by another big gun Warfaze(1984). Different Touch were a popular in the late `80s and early `90s with their melodic tunes with several hit songs like `Sraboner Meghgulo`.Nova(1986) is a Hard Rock, Soft Rock Band. Nova released seven albums till now. Around 1999, some bands came in the music scenario. Artcell (ex-Tantrik), Metal Maze and Migraine, Black, Wire, Nemesis, The Attempted Band and the very popular rock influenced folk fusion group of today Bangla, with some more bands surfacing. And till now these bands are performing for the Bangladeshi audience.