93-569: People [ edit ] Kabir Sumon previously known as Suman Chattopadhyay, Bengali musician, journalist, writer, actor and a member of the parliament of India. Saidus Salehin Khaled Sumon , Bangladeshi musician from Aurthohin band, also known as Bassbaba. Sumon Saha , a first class cricketer from Bangladesh. Sumon Barua , a first-class and list A cricketer from Bangladesh. Sumon K Chakrabarti , former chief national correspondent and one of
186-607: A National Film Award for Best Music Direction for his work in Jaatishwar (2014). From May 2009 to 2014, he was a member of parliament of India in the 15th Lok Sabha , having been elected from the Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal , from Trinamool Congress . Suman was born in a Bengali Hindu Brahmin family on 16 March 1949 to Sudhindranath and Uma Chattopadhyay at Cuttack , Odisha . He started his training in classical music at
279-538: A Bengali feature film with the same name in 2013. In 1998, Suman published his 8th album 'Nishiddho Istehar', which was a stark contrast with his 3rd album 'Ichchhe Holo'. Where 'Ichchhe Holo' completely omitted electronic keyboard, 'Nishiddho Istehar' was entirely accompanied by electronic keyboard. It was one of the complex electronic music recording in Bengali music industry, where all 14 songs were accompanied by complex-customized electronic sound. After 'Ghumo Baundule', it
372-537: A booster service on the FM band. Some of these transmitters are 1000 kW (1 MW) or 500 kW. Programmes are beamed to different parts of the world, except for the Americas, and the reception quality is very good in the target areas. In each language service, the programme consists of news, commentary, a press review, talks on matters of general or cultural interest, feature programmes, documentaries, and music from India and
465-486: A four track tape recorder and hardware sequencer) by him alone; those three songs were accompanied by tabla and percussion by other artists. The song Tomake Chai is the most famous track of the album. This continued to next album 'Bosey Anko', published in March 1992 along with twelve songs again. Unlike previous album, which was mostly accompanied by electronic keyboard and multi track mixed sound electronically, 'Bosey Anko'
558-528: A gentleman Indranil Gupta to Suman's house. Indranil listened the "Tin Shataker Shahar" and liked it, and told Suman that Kolkata Festival was being held in Yuba Bharati Krirangan remembering the so-called tri-centenary celebration of Kolkata City, and that song relates with this, so he should sing this song at that festival. He felt nervous because he was performing on stage after 17 years, and he
651-511: A huge success, and was a big hit. With its offbeat lyric, and instrumentation, it drew a great attention of the listeners, and ultimately it got Platinum Disc. Kabir Suman, recorded a number of albums between 1992 and 1999 under the name Suman Chattopadhyay or Suman Chatterjee. He returned to the recording industry again in 2001, and this time as Kabir Suman. His contemporary urban, socially conscious songs draw upon both Bengali adhunik (modern) and Western folk and protest music. His work has been
744-478: A major influence in the development of the Bengali songs. It has influenced bands like Chandrabindoo , and has grown to become a major movement in contemporary Bengali music. Most of his songs are played solo with just a Piano, electronic keyboard or a guitar. Like many other Bengali singers, Suman recorded albums of Rabindra Sangeet (Songs of Rabindranath Tagore ), starting in the late-1990s. He released his first solo album, Tomake Chai , on 23 April 1992, which
837-447: A music arranger, named Amit Bandopadhyay, arranged the instrumental part. Only 3 songs were accompanied by Suman's acoustic guitar, but other songs were accompanied by session musicians, with santoor, sarod, violin, tabla, dhol , drum pad , electronic keyboard, guitar and bass guitar. Also for the first time, some male and female background vocalists were used in some songs. Many hardcore Suman fans criticized and disliked this music, which
930-479: A new band called 'Nagarik : Anya Katha Anya Gan'. During this time Suman completed his first song (written in 1975) "E Kemon Akash Dekhale Tumi". During this time Suman went to the US in to work for Voice of America . While working for Voice of America, Suman went to Nicaragua during Sandinista Revolution. He also wrote for Desh magazine under the pseudonym Manab Mitra during this time and also started writing in
1023-894: A number of languages, each serving different regions across India. Vividh Bharati began in 1957 and is one of the best-known services of All India Radio. Its name roughly translates as "Diverse Indian". It is also known as the Commercial Broadcasting Service or CBS. Commercially, it is the most accessible AIR network and is popular in Mumbai and other large cities. Vividh Bharati offers a wide range of programmes including news, film music, short plays, music and comedy. It operates on different mediumwave as well as FM frequencies in each city. Some programmes broadcast on Vividh Bharati are: The Central Sales Unit (CSU), located in Mumbai, handles commercial aspects of AIR. The headquarters of
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#17328770093451116-503: A recording studio named 'Sing To Live' inside an abandoned factory near Bansdroni . Kabir Suman was not sure about the future of his created songs, and also not interested to involve in a general job. He thought if he could go to a foreign country as an employee, he could buy many electronic music instruments. Thinking thus, he went to West Germany again in September 1986, and before departure he recorded another album of 'Nagarik', following
1209-526: A simple acoustic guitar, and 4 songs were accompanied by sarod, santur , tabla and percussion by other artists. This fully acoustic music arrangement drew attention to many music-lovers, and it was such an album, which was completely electric or electronic music instrument less almost after 40 years in Bengali music history. It was also his first album which the front cover does not have a picture of himself. In 1994, Suman recorded his 4th album 'Gan-ola', which contained 15 songs. He broke his own record, and also
1302-463: A simple acoustic guitar. 2 songs were translation of two former Bengali songs, but the other 8 songs were directly written in English. This was Suman's first solo album which was published from a recording label other than SAREGAMA India Limited. It was published from Cosmic Harmony, which continued to publish his next few albums. It was his first album, which was marketed with his new name Kabir Suman, which
1395-434: A simple guitar. No other instruments were used. It was his first Bengali album which he recorded entirely with guitar, without any other musicians. This album was remarkable because it was his first album after he became an MP. The main theme of this album was the forest area at western West Bengal, its people, their political situation, and some reasonless harassment from central government. During that time, Chhatradhar Mahato
1488-531: A song. This was a milestone in Bengali Music Industry where two renowned singer-songwriters recorded an album jointly. The effort was mainly from Kabir Suman, as his 12th album. It was also his first album which was published as both cassette and CD, and his first album recorded digitally. Kabir Suman returned to his solo Bengali album in 2005 after a three-year long gap. This time he published his 13th album 'Dekhchhi Toke'. It contained only 8 songs, which
1581-561: A stark contrast with previous albums in view of instrumentation. Unlike 'Chhatradharer Gaan', which was completely accompanied by guitar, 'Lalmohaner Lash' was entirely accompanied by electronic keyboard. This album was recorded and released at that time, when due to his political view not supported by his party, the clash with his party was continuing. It is often called a sequel of 'Chhatradharer Gan'. Like 'Chhatradharer Gan', all songs were in favor of revolution of forest people living in western West Bengal, and protest against harassment caused by
1674-539: A teacher of German at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture , Kolkata, and the Max Mueller Bhavan. He started working in the Bengali daily Aajkal as a part-timer, and also contributed to the Desh until 1980. He joined a band called "Samatan". However, this band was unsuccessful and the members broke up very soon. Some members of Samatan and some new members, all in their twenties and thirties joined him to establish
1767-404: A territory from a high-power satellite. AIR broadcasts various national and regional stations available to listen on DD Free Dish . The DTH signals can be received directly at homes using a small-sized dish receiver unit containing a dish antenna installed on a building's rooftop or on a wall facing clear south and one indoors. DTH service is offered on twenty one channels via Insat . Details of
1860-620: A very young age, under the tutelage of his father. He studied at St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata . He graduated with an honours in English Literature from Jadavpur University and did a diploma in the French language and the German language. Around 1968, while learning Himangshu Dutta compositions, he felt that in spite of their compositional strength, they did not represent the contemporary times, lyrically. Kabir Suman's first studio recording
1953-509: Is a long tradition of broadcasting documentary features on AIR. There is great interest in radio documentaries, particularly in countries like India, Iran, South Korea, and Malaysia. The most prominent broadcaster of English Features was Melville de Mellow , and of Hindi Features, Shiv Sagar Mishra. This format has been revived by AIR producers across India because of its flexibility, its relative low cost to produce, its messaging potential, and its creative potential. AIR's Central Drama Unit (CDU)
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#17328770093452046-497: Is also used to reach neighbouring countries. In addition to broadcasts targeted at specific countries by language, there is a General Overseas Service broadcasting in English with 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 hours of programming each day aimed at a general international audience. The external broadcasts began on 1 October 1939 by the British government to counter the propaganda of the Nazis directed at
2139-503: Is continuing after that. 2004 saw a long-awaiting incident, when Kabir Suman and Anjan Datta recorded an album collaboratively. It was named 'Onek Din Por', which contained 10 songs, 5 each were written by each artist. Suman's songs were accompanied by guitar and harmonica, where Anjan's songs were accompanied by lead guitar, bass guitar and harmonica by other musicians. Anjan himself played acoustic guitar, and Suman accompanied him by harmonica in
2232-486: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kabir Sumon Kabir Suman ( pronounced [kobiɾ ʃumon] ; born as Suman Chattopadhyay ; 16 March 1949) is an Indian singer-songwriter, musician, music director, music composer, writer, actor, politician, and former journalist. He shot to fame in the 1990s with Bengali albums such as Tomake Chai ( I Want You ) and Boshe Anko ( Sit-and-Draw ). Suman has won
2325-448: Is responsible for the national broadcast of plays. Plays produced by the CDU are translated and produced by regional stations. Since its inception in the 1960s, the unit has produced more than 1,500 plays, and the CDU houses a repository of old scripts and productions. The National Programme of Plays is broadcast by the CDU on the fourth Thursday of each month at 9:30 pm. Each play included in
2418-1048: Is the Urdu Service to Pakistan, around the clock on DTH ( direct-broadcast satellite ) and on short- and medium wave for 12 1 ⁄ 4 hrs. The English-language General Overseas Service is broadcast 8 1 ⁄ 4 hours daily. During Hajj , there are special broadcasts beamed to Saudi Arabia in Urdu. AIR is planning to produce programmes in the Balochi language . The external services of AIR are also broadcast to Europe in DRM ( Digital Radio Mondiale ) on 9950 kHz between 17:45 and 22:30 UTC. These external transmissions are broadcast by high-power transmitters located in Aligarh, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Mumbai, and Panaji on shortwave and from Jalandhar, Kolkata, Nagpur, Rajkot, and Tuticorin on mediumwave. All India Radio Amritsar plans to start
2511-733: The Afghan people. The first broadcasts were in Pashto , beamed to Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province . Broadcasts soon began in other languages including Dari , Persian , Arabic , English, Burmese , Japanese, Chinese, Malay and French. The external services broadcast in 16 foreign and 11 Indian languages, with a total programme output of 70¼ hours per day on medium and shortwave frequencies. Two high powered FM stations of All India Radio are being installed in Amritsar and Fazilka in
2604-657: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) . During this time some controversy arose over one of his songs "Anita Dewan". Kabir Suman performed his first solo live performance on 5 May 1991 at Shishir Mancha. Many magazines and newspapers were invited, like Aajkal , Desh , Business Standard , The Statesman , and they reviewed it. 'Desh' first labeled his songs as 'Sumaner Gan', which popularized his songs after this time and still now. But although those reviews were positive, not many invitations other from than his friend circle happened. He performed in some live programs with
2697-891: The 'Frontier' magazine. Suman returned to Kolkata in early 1985. He bought many instruments, applicable for a complete recording studio, which were sent to Kolkata by ship. After returning to Kolkata, he rejoined with 'Nagarik' with some new vocalists and instrumentalists, and continued writing and composing songs, thinking mainly as group songs. From early 1986, 'Nagorik' started swinging due to clash of personality. Kabir Suman created some songs at that time like "Hariye Jeo Na", "Tomake Chai" (finally published in 1992), "Aro Balo Aro Katha" (partially published in 1992), "Machhi O Mara Mukher Gan", "Najehal Akashta", "Robbar" (finally published in 1994), "Tumi Gan Gaile (finally sung by Indranil Sen and published in 2002), "Ganahatyar Nam Bhopal", "Tirikshi Mejajer Je Lokta", "Abhibadan" (finally published in 1994) etc. His initial compositions were created keeping
2790-595: The 1990s. Deccan Radio (Nizam Radio 1932) , the first radio station in Hyderabad State (now Hyderabad ), went live on air on 3 February 1935. It was launched by Mir Osman Ali Khan the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad with a transmitting power of 200 Watts . On 1 April 1950, Deccan Radio was taken over by the Indian Government, and in 1956 it was merged with All India Radio (AIR). Since then, it has been known as AIR-Hyderabad (100 kW). AIR has many services in
2883-625: The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) transmissions and frequencies are as follows: the All India Radio launched news-on-phone service on 25 February 1998 in New Delhi; it now has service in Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Indore , Patna, and Bangalore. The service is accessible through subscriber trunk dialling (STD), international direct dialing (ISD), and local calls. There are plans to establish
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2976-650: The Drama Section, the FM Section, and the National Service, and is also home to the Indian television station Doordarshan Kendra, ( Delhi ). In terms of the number of languages transmitted, the range of socioeconomic variety it serves, and the size of its broadcasting organisation, Akashvani is the largest radio network in the world. AIR's home service comprises 420 stations located across the country, reaching nearly 92% of
3069-441: The Indian point of view on matters of national and international importance, and demonstrates the Indian way of life through its programs. QSL cards (which are sought-after by international radio hobbyists) are issued to radio hobbyists by AIR in New Delhi for reception reports of their broadcasts. Direct-to-home (DTH) service is a satellite broadcast service in which a large number of radio channels are digitally beamed down over
3162-951: The Punjab to supplement the programmes broadcast from transmitters operating from Jalandhar, New Delhi, Chandigarh and Mumbai, and to improve the broadcast services during unfavourable weather conditions in the border regions of Punjab. Today, the External Services Division of All India Radio broadcasts daily with 57 transmissions with almost 72 hours or programming covering over 108 countries in 27 languages, of which 15 are foreign and 12 are Indian. The foreign languages are Arabic, Baluchi, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, French, Indonesian, Persian, Pushtu, Russian, Sinhala, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, and English (General Overseas Service). The Indian languages are Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, Kashmiri, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali, Punjabi, Saraiki, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. The longest daily broadcast
3255-575: The Regional Deputy Directors General are located in Delhi and Chandigarh (NR), Lucknow and Bhopal (CR), Guwahati (NER), Kolkata (ER), Mumbai and Ahmedabad (WR), Chennai and Bangalore (SR). All frequencies are in kHz, unless otherwise noted. Most of the channels are also available online. The external services of All India Radio are broadcast in 27 languages to countries outside India via high-power shortwave radio broadcasts. Mediumwave
3348-566: The cassette manufacturing was completely stopped in India. 2) It was his last album published from Cosmic Harmony. His protest-mindness helped Trinamool Congress to stand him as an MP in then coming Lok sabha election. He sang many such songs in his election campaign. After elected as MP, he returned again to music recording in 2010. This time he published his 17th album 'Chhatradharer Gaan'. and his 5th concept album, and his 4th political album. It contained only 8 songs, and all songs were accompanied by
3441-496: The central paramilitary force, operation Green hunt etc. During that time, Lal Mohan Tudu was arrested applying UAPA , and killed by the paramilitary force. A very sharp ear can listen a humming sound in the end of some songs, it was due to 14 Kilohertz crosstalk signaling. It was caused by some earthing problem. This album also does not contain any photo of him on front cover. All India Radio All India Radio ( AIR ), also known as Akashvani ( lit. ' Voice from
3534-406: The clash continued with him from other leaders, including AITC supremo, then railway minister Mamata Banerjee . This album was recorded by following an early stereo recording concept, i.e.—vocal on one side, and guitar on another side. In 2011, Suman published his 18th album 'Lalmohoner Lash'. It was his 6th and last concept album, and his 5th and last political album. It contained 9 songs, and has
3627-689: The country's area and 99.19% of the total population, and has programming in 23 languages and 179 dialects. When the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) was renamed to All India Radio, Rabindranath Tagore rechristened it as Akashvani, the voice that comes over from the skies , through a poem penned for the inauguration of Kolkata 's shortwave service. Akashvani was also used in the context of radio by M. V. Gopalaswami in 1936 after setting up India's first private radio station in his residence, "Vittal Vihar" (about two hundred yards from AIR's current Mysore radio station). Akashvani
3720-518: The founder employee of Indian CNN-IBN. Sumon - Bangladeshi child actor. Places [ edit ] Sumon, Niigata , was a village located in Kitauonuma District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan which was later merged to create the city of Uonuma. Sum (administrative division) - also known as sumons, a type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. Topics referred to by
3813-448: The group in mind. The group consisted of amateur singers and their aptitude was limited. Members of Nagorik recorded some of his songs on cassette tape, the entire recording was planned domestically in his home at Baishnabghata. Kabir Suman himself had written, composed, sung and played electronic keyboard on the recording. There were some other vocalists and instrumentalists, instruments included guitar and percussions. The entire recording
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3906-427: The head of the product development division of that company welcomed Suman, and showed interest to record his songs. Kabir suman felt very happy and surprised after listening to this, and asked Ravi about the reason for it, Ravi Kichlu told him – "I will be doing a service to Indian Music". The recording started after some days in early 1992. Kabir Suman recorded 12 songs for his first album, named 'Tomake Chai', which
3999-613: The help of electronic tanpura , continued keyboard and guitar playing, and also creating songs with some contemporary incidents. Kabir Suman performed first time as a professional singer in December 1990. He got appreciation from Dr. Barin Roy, Gour Kishor Ghosh, Ashis Chattopadhay etc. Shubhendu Maity helped him by giving him a chance to perform in some concerts. His songs have not impressed the rural people, but urban and suburban people appreciated them very much. He also sang at some political meetings of
4092-608: The help of his friends. All those were very unsure, and Kabir Suman also was not optimistic at that time about his eligibility. Many people of advertisement business got him to do jingles or theme songs including "Lexpo 1991", but some of them either gave him not a single penny, others gave him very little money, despite the fact that Kabir Suman made all this work completely alone with writing, composing, singing, playing instruments, recording, and mixing. Some advised him to go to Mumbai for some professional work, but he refused it. He went to Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata for some work, but he
4185-465: The next year, when he published his 15th album and his 3rd concept album 'Rijwanur Britto` in 2008. It was his first album which was published in Kolkata Book Fair , and the only album which was published personally, without any help from any recording company. It contained 8 songs, and except one song which was played with guitar, all other songs were played with electronic keyboard. All songs' theme
4278-615: The private Indian Broadcasting Company Ltd (IBC) was authorized to operate two radio stations: the Mumbai station which began on 23 July 1927, and the Kolkata station which followed on 26 August 1927. The company went into liquidation on 1 March 1930. The government took over the broadcasting facilities and began the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) on 1 April 1930 on an experimental basis for two years, and permanently in May 1932 it then went on to become All India Radio on 8 June 1936. The building
4371-1073: The procedure just written before, but this time in the new studio he constructed. After reaching West Germany, he started learning classical guitar. During this time he felt that guitar is a simple instrument, which could be played by a solo musician, and there is no question about any type of multi-instrument orchestra. Also a guitar makes a man moving-minded. Under an Italian teacher, he started learning guitar, with Finger-style , sight-reading , listening many guitarists' records like Andrés Segovia , Julian Bream etc., and also started learning jazz guitar & blues guitar. He then started song creation on guitar, like "Hal Chherho Na Bandhu" (finally published in 1992), "Gan-ola" (finally published in 1994), etc. These guitar based songs started influencing of Baul , Bhawaiya , Kirtan , Folk , Blues and also some Ragas . Suman returned to Kolkata in early 1989. He bought many instruments like before, this time both keyboard and guitar. After returning to Kolkata, he saw 'Nagarik' has almost disbanded because of ego-clash, and
4464-633: The record of Bengali music history because it was the first of such basic Bengali song album which contains such number of songs. By this album, he returned with his electronic music era again, with an updated, state-of-the art electronic keyboard with arranger facility. It was also his first album, where no other musicians played. All 15 songs were accompanied by either electronic keyboard, or acoustic guitar, among these, two songs were recorded with both guitar and harmonica. Some people believe that he had not used keyboard in any of his songs after 'Bosey Anko' – because he continued to practice this new keyboard, which
4557-611: The recording company still used his old name primarily, and his new name within brackets. The cover art was also a photograph of old days when he had hair, beard and moustache, where during that time, practically there were nothing to him. Next year, Kabir Suman published his 11th album 'Adab', which contained 12 songs. This was almost his back to route effort, like 'Tomake Chai' and 'Bose Anko', which also contained 6 songs on each side. 5 Songs were played with an electric guitar, and 1 song with both electronic keyboard and guitar. Rest of all songs were played with electronic keyboard. This album
4650-434: The royalty of this album went completely to those ordinary persons of Singur and Nandigram, Both 'Nandigram' and 'Protirodh' became very popular to the then opposition party of West Bengal All India Trinamool Congress . They played it on various meetings, distributed CD copies in very low price to voters. This album was marked by two aspects—1) It was his last album which was published as both cassette and CD, because from 2009,
4743-407: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sumon . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sumon&oldid=1115016630 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#17328770093454836-488: The service in 11 additional cities including: Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Guwahati, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ranchi, and Shimla. English and Hindi hourly news bulletins may be heard live. News in MP3 format may be directly played from the site, and filenames are time-stamped. AIR news bulletins are available in nine regional languages: Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi, North East, Punjabi, Telugu, and Urdu. There
4929-642: The sky ' or ' Oracle ' ), is an Indian state-owned public radio broadcaster founded by the Government of India , owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati 's two divisions. It was established in 1936. It is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan , an Indian television broadcaster . Headquartered in the Akashvani Bhavan building in New Delhi , it houses
5022-407: The studio is also in a sinking mood. He decided to be a solo professional singer-songwriter and musician, and thought to work in some advertisement business, but nothing materialized. During this time he wrote some songs like "Tin Shataker Shahar", "Chena Duhkha Chena Sukh" (finally published in 1992), "Pratham Sabkichhu" (finally published in 1994) etc. In February 1990, a singer named Raju Bal took
5115-409: The target region. Most programmes originate at New Broadcasting House on Parliament Street in New Delhi, with a few originating at SPT Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jalandhar, Kolkata, HPT Malad Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram, and Tuticorin. The External Services Division of AIR is a link between India and rest of the world, especially in countries with Indian emigrants and Indian diaspora . It broadcasts
5208-544: The theme of that movie. The song was recorded in February 1992. Kabir Suman himself played guitar, Pratap Roy played synthesizer, and Samir Khasnabis played bass guitar. Unfortunately the film was not completed, and so the song was also not released. Shubhendu Maity told Mr. Somnath Chattopadhyay, one of the officials of The Gramophone Company of India about the songs of Kabir Suman, and after Shubhendu's request, Suman sent some songs to Somnath after home recording. Ravi Kichlu ,
5301-461: The trailblazer of the talk show in 1939. He wrote and directed the first modern radio play for this station in 1942. In December 1940, The Standing Committee of the Finance had sanctioned a sum of Rupees 9,30,000 for the establishment of new headquarters of All India Radio in Delhi. The new “Broadcasting House” of AIR at Parliament Street in New Delhi was inaugurated in February 1943. In 1956, AIR
5394-421: Was a bit unclear and hazy. His next Bengali full solo album 'Nandigram' was published in 2007, after a 2 years gap. It was his 14th album, and his 2nd concept album, and his first political album. Around this time, the political situation of West Bengal was in unrest regarding land acquisition at Singur and Nandigram . On 14 March 2007, many people were killed by police at Nandigram. At that time, Kabir Suman
5487-471: Was a reporter of Tara TV . He went more than one time to those places, and arose high protest by both as reporter and singer-songwriter-musician. This album contained 8 songs, and one lyric. It was his second album which contained lyric reading, without any music and tune. The title song 'Nandigram` was sung by him without any kind of instrumental, it was also his first time. All the rest of the songs were accompanied with only electronic keyboard. All songs' theme
5580-603: Was about 250,000. In August 1947, All India Radio hired its first female newsreader, Saeeda Bano , who read the news in Urdu . On 3 October 1957, the Vividh Bharati Service was launched, to compete with Radio Ceylon . Television broadcasting began in Delhi in 1959 as part of AIR, but was split off from the radio network as Doordarshan on 1 April 1976. FM broadcasting began on 23 July 1977 in Chennai , and expanded during
5673-426: Was also a political album and his 4th concept album., which contained 8 songs. All songs were accompanied by electronic keyboard, with some songs mixed with guitar a bit. Both of these albums published in 2008 did not have any photo of him on front cover. It is often called a sequel of 'Nandigram'. Like 'Nandigram', all songs' theme was forceful land acquisition from then state government, and brutal massacre by them, and
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#17328770093455766-412: Was also done by Suman. It became a hit for both the movie and soundtrack, and Kabir Suman received BFJA award as best music director. It continued to next year when he became music director again in a Bengali film Suryakanya, which contained 6 songs. Unlike two previous films, he did not direct the background score here. Suman played all instruments like electronic keyboard, guitar and harmonica and himself
5859-624: Was also done by Suman. Unfortunately the motion picture released after a long 12 years gap, in 2006, and was flop. In 1997, Suman became music director again in a Bengali film Sedin Chaitramas, which contained 7 songs. Unlike Mahasangram, Suman played all instruments like electronic keyboard, guitar and harmonica and himself was an arranger like his basic albums. It was his first soundtrack where he worked with own instruments. Beside Suman, other singers in this album were Nachiketa Chakrabarty, Lopamudra Mitra & Swagata Lakshmi Das Gupta. Background score
5952-421: Was also the first time in Bengali music history. All these mixing were done by both four track tape recorder, and hardware sequencer, which was unique and very hard to do. 1996 saw a big departure of Suman's music, because, in this year, his 6th album 'Chaichhi Tomar Bondhuta' published. It contained again 15 songs like 'Gan-ola', but the main exception is that it was the first and only basic album of Suman, where
6045-610: Was an arranger like his basic albums. Beside Suman, other singers were Shrikanta Acharya, Shriradha Bandopadhyay & Swagata Lakshmi Das Gupta. The movie was a flop. Kabir Suman started his music career with Rabindra Nath Tagore 's song in 1972, but it was almost unsuccessful. He recorded Tagore's song again 1994, after a long gap, this time he was already a popular singer. From 1994 to 1997, he recorded Tagore's Song each year as albums. These were published as 'Tumi Sandhyar Meghamala' in 1994, 'Pathik Ami` in 1995, 'Priyar Chhaya` in 1996 and 'Chirabhakta` in 1997. In first three albums, music
6138-580: Was arranged by V Balsara, Amit Bandopadhyay and again V. Balsara respectively. In the album 'Chirabhakta', 7 songs were arranged by Amit Bandopadhyay, but rest 5 songs was sung by Suman with only a simple acoustic guitar, which was unique in the history of Tagore's song recording, and it was also permitted by Vishwa Bharati Music Board. 1n 1995, Kabir Suman recorded an album which contained 10 songs, that were composed by Surasagar Himangshu Dutta , around 1940. All these songs were written by different lyricists. During its recording, Pete Seeger 's 12 string guitar
6231-428: Was arrested and imprisoned, joint paramilitary force was posted in that area, and they started harassing common people of forest area, saying that they are helping Maoists. For this sensitive reason, this album became controversial. Suman's party All India Trinamool Congress did not like his view, and repeatedly said to ban this album, and stop saying about supporting Chhatradhar Mahato, but he did not change his view, so
6324-446: Was completely unknown, with his style. He sang "Tin Shataker Shahar" with guitar, then "Tomake Chai" and finally "Amader Janya" – both with electronic keyboard. The audiences became highly appreciative about his songs and music after hearing three songs and started applauding seeking encore. Kabir Suman felt very happy to realize that his song got the favour of the general public, and became optimistic. He started to practise his voice with
6417-501: Was contracted by Sir Sobha Singh . On 1 October 1939, the External Service began with a broadcast in Pashto . It was intended to counter radio propaganda from Germany directed at Afghanistan , Iran , and Arab nations. The Dhaka station of Eastern India, in what is now Bangladesh , opened in 1939. This station catered to and nurtured the pioneers of Bengali intellectuals. The foremost among them, Natyaguru Nurul Momen , became
6510-437: Was done by Suman. Only two songs were accompanied with guitar and harmonica, rest of the songs were accompanied completely with electronic keyboard, and sometimes with harmonica, like 'Nishiddha Istehar'. It was his first basic song album, where complete lyrics of the songs were printed in its album cover. It was his last collaborative album as 'Suman Chatterjee'. Initially it was published only as cassette, but later also as CD. It
6603-548: Was done by his four track tape recorder, where live vocals and live instruments were recorded in two tracks by all vocalists, and Kabir Suman himself added more electronic sounds on the rest of the two tracks by playing synthesizer. His book "Mukta Nicaragua" about Sandinista revolution was published by K.P. Bagchi Publication at that time (republished many years later), but another book "Anya America" failed to get published. He also recorded some information and song about Sandinista Revolution at that time. During this time he constructed
6696-474: Was finally recorded in 'Gan-ola'. It was his second album in which the front cover does not have any picture of himself. His electronic music supremacy developed further on his next album 'Ghumo Baundule'. Although the number of songs reduced from 15 to 13, but it was another album, which was entirely accompanied by his musical instruments. In this album, all songs were accompanied with electronic keyboard, harmonica, acoustic guitar and electric guitar combination. It
6789-584: Was first introduced to the songs of Bob Dylan and he claimed Dylan's songs left a great impression and influence on him. Kabir Suman went to West Germany on 12 May 1975. . At the end of 1975, Voice of Germany opened a Bengali department in Cologne , and he applied for a job there. They gave him some translation work, and he gradually became a regular freelancer for the Voice of Germany's Bengali division. In May 1979, Suman returned to Kolkata and he started to work as
6882-534: Was his first concept album about holiday, leave, vacation. Its theme contained 'leave' in many aspects like vacation, death, lost youth, holiday, break etc. After 'Nishiddho Istehar', this was his second album, which was entirely accompanied by electronic keyboard, except the last song, which was played with an acoustic piano. This was his first album, where there were some lyric reading, without any music and tune. There were such 6 lyrics. Kabir Suman had already changed his name from Suman Chattopadhyay to Kabir Suman, but
6975-690: Was his first album mainly for children. Along with Anjan Dutt , Nachiketa Chakraborty , Lopamudra Mitra & Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta , some child singers sang most songs either single or as group, or as collaborative with those famous singers. Amit Bandopadhyay was also arranger here, but in 3 songs. Kabir Suman played acoustic guitar and harmonic in this album. In 1999, there was another children song album 'Eksathe Banchboi' with 12 songs. Unlike 'Chhoto Boro Miley', here no other famous singers sang. All songs were sung by child singers, although they were not same of those in 'Chhoto Boro Miley' (except Payel Kar, who
7068-589: Was his first album which was published from a recording company other than SAREGAMA India Limited; it was published from Raga Music. In 1994, Kabir Suman debuted his Soundtrack music career. In this year, he wrote, composed, sung, and even played a cameo role in a Bengali film Mahasangram , which contained 6 songs. Amit Bandopadhyay arranged the instrumental music with many session musicians for all songs but one, where Suman played his guitar and harmonica only. Here Suman sang with Indrani Sen. Some songs were sung by Suman, some by Indrani, and some as duet. Background score
7161-473: Was his first album with least contained song. This album was remarkable because, it was his first album where he not only recorded the entire music instrumental parts, but also mixed and finally mastered. It was the first Bengali album which contained songs that were written, composed, sung, instruments played, recorded, mixed and mastered by a single person. 4 songs were accompanied by electronic keyboard, and 4 songs by electric guitar. However its recording quality
7254-399: Was immensely successful as it redefined Bengali songs. Later Suman stopped making songs for general audience and focused on more political issues. In April 1992, Suman published his first album 'Tomake Chai', which had twelve songs. He sang, wrote and composed all those songs. Except three songs, all songs were accompanied by either electronic keyboard , or acoustic guitar, or both (mixed by
7347-483: Was in 1972. It was released from Hindusthan Records. His second single vinyl record was published in 1973, from the same label. Both these records were commercially unsuccessful. After resigning from All India Radio he joined a clerical post at United Bank of India . Kabir Suman shifted to France temporarily to teach the basics of Indian Classical Music in 1973. It is said in one of his autobiographies, that in France he
7440-560: Was in both albums). Also in this album, all songs were accompanied with electronic keyboard, and hardware drum programmer by Suman. Suman used both instruments very complexly, and created an ethereal orchestration alone. He also sang 3 songs collaboratively with those child singers, and he says that it was his best artistic work till now. In this year, another album published named 'Achena Chhuti', which contained 14 songs, where Suman sang with Sabina Yasmin . Some songs were sung by Suman, some by Sabina, and some as duet. The entire instrumentation
7533-635: Was later given as All India Radio's on-air name in 1956; given its literal meaning in Sanskrit, it was believed to be a more than suitable name for a broadcaster. The name Akashvani was suggested by the poet Pandit Narendra Sharma . Broadcasting began in June 1923 during the British Raj with programmes by the Bombay Presidency Radio Club and other radio clubs. According to an agreement on 23 July 1927,
7626-498: Was mysterious death of young multimedia designer Rizwanur Rahman , which was very controversial, and created some political unrest in West Bengal. It was his first album which was published only in CD. During this period Kabir Suman gaining popularity again in view of his many protest songs, so he obliged to publish another protest song album in the same year. His 16th album 'Protirodh', which
7719-590: Was not alike with his previous albums. However, in 1997, Suman returned again to his own instrumental music by his 7th album 'Jaatishwar'. It contained 12 songs again after 'Bosey Anko', and also like 'Bosey Anko' – most songs was recorded with a simple guitar, (this time with an electric guitar), only 2 songs with electronic keyboard, 1 song with keyboard, guitar and drums, another song with piano, guitar and harmonica, and 2 songs were accompanied by sarod, santoor, tabla and drums by other artists. The title song 'Jaatishwar' inspired then young Srijit Mukherjee , and he made
7812-426: Was obliged to record his third album on the same year. From his third album 'Ichchhe Holo', he started recording his basic albums annually as a 'Puja Album' like other artists during August of each year, until 1999. 'Ichchhe Holo' contained 14 songs, the first of such basic Bengali song albums. Unlike two previous albums, electronic keyboard was completely unused in this album. Most songs were completely accompanied by
7905-511: Was played by renowned guitarist Buddhadeb Gangopadhyay. After 1999, he returned in recording industry again in 2001, and this time as Kabir Suman. One of Suman's greatest critical success, was his concert at Kalamandir in Kolkata with American folk icon Pete Seeger , in 1996. After a long gap throughout 2000, Kabir Suman returned to recording career again in January 2001, by publishing his 10th album 'Jabo Awchenay', which contained 10 songs. It
7998-463: Was published again in 2001, after a long gap. Beside himself, some other artists have recorded his songs. It first happened in 1995, when Haimanti Shukla recorded an album 'Sobujer Pratishodh', which contained 8 songs. Amit Bandopadhyay arranged the instrumental music with many session musicians. Some female background vocalists were used in some songs. It continued in the next year, 1996 when Suman created an album 'Chhoto Boro Miley' with 14 songs. It
8091-473: Was published in April 1992. In many aspects, it was a milestone in the history of Bangla Song. It was the first Bengali Basic Song Album which was entirely written, composed, sung and musical instruments played by the artist himself. It was the first Bengali Basic Song Album which was recorded with the help of a four track tape recorder. On thé first pressing, it did not sell well, but after the 2nd pressing, it gained
8184-411: Was recorded directly without any complex mixing except one song, which was mixed with both guitar and keyboard (and also with tabla and percussion). Most songs were recorded with a simple acoustic guitar, only two songs with an electronic keyboard, and four songs were accompanied by a sarod , tabla and percussion by other artists. This second album was also a big hit, and popularized Suman so much, that he
8277-528: Was refused. He went to Akashbani Bhawan Kolkata, and applied with the help of his friend and famous newsreader Tarun Chakrabarty. Ultimately he sang some of his own songs and some songs of Rabindra Nath Tagore, after 16 years, on the radio. In 1991 he went to film director Tarun Majumdar for some work in soundtrack. Tarun Majumder listened to some of his songs, and selected "Pratham Sabkichhu" to use in one of his upcoming films 'Abhimane Anurage', although he requested Suman to change some of his lyrics to match with
8370-587: Was remarkable with four more points—1) Here his new name was used primarily, with his old name within brackets (unlike previous albums), 2) His then actual photo was used as cover photo, 3) It was his last album recorded in Saregama India Limited. 4) It was his last album which was published only as cassette. His next Bengali full solo album was published in 2005, after a long 3 years gap. In 2003, he recorded an English song album 'Reaching Out' which contained 10 songs. All songs were completely accompanied by
8463-502: Was renamed as “Akashvani”, and AIR Headquarters were renamed as “Akashvani Bhawan”. When India became independent in 1947, the AIR network had only six stations ( Delhi , Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Lucknow , and Tiruchirappalli ). The three radio stations in Lahore , Peshawar and Dhaka remained in what became Pakistan after the division. The total number of radio sets in India at that time
8556-444: Was the first album where no other musicians played. This continued to his 9th album 'Pagla Sanai', which was published in 1999. Only 2 songs were accompanied by simple acoustic guitar, and 2 were with sanai and tabla by other artists. All other songs were accompanied by electronic keyboard, and hardware drum programmer. Suman used both instruments very complexly, and created a complex orchestration alone. After this album, his next album
8649-406: Was the forceful land acquisition from then state government, and brutal massacre by them. It was his third album after a long gap since 'Gan-ola`, published in 1994, in which the front cover does not have any picture of himself. The royalty of this album went completely to those ordinary persons of Singur and Nandigram, who were continuing protest against the land acquisition. His protest continued to
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