Srabani Sen has been a turning point so far as my musical career is concerned---its she who has initiated me to Rabindranath and his vast repertoire of compositions,its she who inculcated in me a deep interest to listen to stalwarts like Sagar Sen,Debabrata Biswas,Purba Dam,Kanika Bandyopadhyay,Geeta Ghatak,Maya Sen----all the luminaries of the genre...Srabanidi introduced me to studio recordings and has given me all that an ideal mentor could....I remember spending lazy afternoons at 58/3,Ballygunge Circular Road listening in awe to her renditions like
Aj Shraboner Purnimatey,Jibane Amar Jato Anondo,Dure Kothaye,Aha,Tomar Shongey and picking up the intricacies and subtleties of tough compositions like
Bujhi oi Shudure,Nibiro Megher Chhayay,Tomar Shur Shunaye and so many less heard numbers of Rabindranath....
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| Abar Shraban(Kaustav Goswami) |
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Coming back to my proffesional music arena..............
I have been cutting albums of Rabindra Sangeet from 2010 on a regular basis...my first solo album of Tagore,
Megh Bolechhey was released in 2010 from Ananyo Music at Indian Institute of Science,Bangaluru by Smt.Srabani Sen & Prof.Kamaniyo Chattopadhyay...
My second album
Abar Shraban was released from Picasso Entertainments in 2012.....a collection of Monsoon songs of Tagore,the album was designed musically by the very talented Sandipan Ganguly,violinist and arranger.
Subsequently I published Probaho(2014) and Sakha(2016)......
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| Kaustav Goswami with his mentor Srabani Sen |
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| Probaho(Kaustav Goswami) |
