Paper Rhyme by Paper Rhyme

"Paper Rhyme" is the debut self-titled album by popular Bangladeshi '90s pop-rock band Paper Rhyme. It was released in 1996 from Soundtek in cassette format. Nearing the millennium, it received a CD release on "Silver Disc". Paper Rhyme was a band that formed in 1992, with the lineup of: Ahmed Saad, Nasser Haque, Rashed Iqbal, Aninda Kabir Avik and Schumann Zaman. Rashed and Nasser were part of popular pop-rock trio "Masrur-Rashed-Nasser", with two albums called Lesson-1 and Lesson-2. The band produced only one album and then "disappeared" as they like to say it after '96, but actually the band members went their different ways in life. They were in hiatus until in 2017, when they reunited (with the absence of Rashed Iqbal) for one last studio performance in a '90s bands compilation album called "Abar", with the song, "Darao Bondhu". Paper Rhyme's biggest hit to this day is the song called "Ondhokar Ghore" from their debut self-titled album, which garnered the band a cult following since release. The song especially took over the younger listeners in 2007-2008 when an unknown person made an acoustic cover of it and it became "viral" in many WAP sites as well as online music forums, and most of these listeners did not know the song was indeed by Paper Rhyme. Interestingly, by the same time period, an urban legend was also spread that the person who sang the acoustic cover also wrote it and committed suicide after losing the love of his life. This urban legend was completely proven false and debunked when Paper Rhyme explained in a post on September 23, 2017 on their official Facebook page that it was just a hoax that people had made up and the lyricist of the song, Shammi, was in fact alive and doing well.

The lineup for "Paper Rhyme" consisted of the following:

Ahmed Saad: Vocals, Harmonica
Nasser Haque: Keys
Schumann Zaman: Bass
Rashed Iqbal: Guitars
Aninda Kabir Avik: Drums, Percussion

Lyrics were written by Shammi, Saad, Nasser and Rashed.

The album can be streamed legally from the official YouTube channel of Nasser Haque here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw_Q09aw7yBMPkHMW03FTvfjL1xq7ixU


Track List:

01. Elomelo
02. Shomoyer Haate
03. Akasher Ki Rong?
04. Haway Ashe Bheshe
05. Kono Ek Bikele
06. Kokhono Ki Khujecho
07. Boishakhe
08. Keno Je She
09. Ondhokar Ghore
10. Jokhoni Akash
11. Ekbaar Bole Jao
12. Oboshor Bhalobasha

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Artwork

Front

Back

CD

Booklet-1 [Inlay  Front-1]

Inside [CD holder]

Booklet-2 [Inlay Front-2]

Inlay [Back]

Band Promo Photo [From L-R: Nasser, Rashed, Avik, Saad, Schumann]