Bangla CD Covers

"Light Years Ahead" or "Alok Borsho Durey" is the debut album of the pioneers of Bangla hip-hop, Stoic Bliss . The Bangladeshi-American hip hop band released this album in June 2006 from G-Series in both Jewel Case CD album and Cassette formats. Following huge popularity that the album garnered, it was followed with a paperback release to meet the demands. In fact,  Light Years Ahead sold well over 250,000 copies in the first 10 months, marking the very positive reception of hip-hop music in the Bangla music scene. It spawned timeless hits like "Abar Jigay ??" (which became a pop culture phenomenon among the "dhakaite" lingo of the mid 2000s), "Mayabi Chokh" , " Party at PianoHouse" , "Sheshbarer Moto" , "Chow Mei Fun" etc. Even though the key members of Stoic Bliss are singer Kazi , rapper Ac1D who teamed up with the emerging music producer of the NY bangla music scene, Rajib Rahman aka Double R , ...

"Daak" is the debut album of popular pop rock/easy listening band "Yaatri" . It was released in 2006 from G-Series in both Paperback and Cassette format. In 2008 it was re-released as an extended paperback with no booklet. The album was a project mainly consisting of Rashed Uddin Ahmed Topu and Emran Khan . Topu wrote all the lyrics for the album while Emran did the keys and programming. Previously, this duo composed two mega hit songs, the first one called "Nupur" in 2004 for Tony Vincent Gomes ' band mixed album, "Shopnochura" and the second "Ekta Gopon Kotha" which was featured in Tony's 2nd compilation in the series, "Shopnochura 2" in 2005. For "Daak", to complete the tracks, the duo took help from a lot of popular and up and coming artists during that time: Guitarists - Ahsan Ul Habi Adil, James, Bassists - Shams Alim Biswas, Ishtiaq Hossain Jishan, Vocalists - Armeen Musa, Elita Karim, Simin Sai...

"Bujhcho?!" is the debut and only album of Prayer Hall . It was released on November 14, 2006 from Bengal Music Company (BMC) ltd. Prayer Hall comprises of popular fusion artist Shayan Chowdhury Arnob , Punam , Kushal and Saad . The quartet actually met in India while they were students at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. The story of why they chose the name in particular was included in the album sleeves. They all met in this beautiful place in India, known as "Land". They went there at different times to rediscover themselves and were inspired to create music. In fact, they recorded most of the songs in a room there called "Prayer Hall". Hence, the band came to be known as that name. The album also featured guest artists such as Sahana Bajpaie , Anusheh Anadil and Buno . The album was dedicated to Vishal , with love. The album can be purchased from Apple Music here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bujhcho/807397007 It can also be purc...

"Prottutponnnomotitto" is the sophomore album by popular folk fusion band Bangla . It was a tribute to Lalon Shai and features exclusively Lalon songs. It was released in 2006 from Ektaar Music. After having immense success from their first album, Kingkortobbobimurh , Bangla decided it to make an album dedicated completely to Lalon Shai and his teachings. During that time, Bangladesh was facing problems and pressure from various religious groups and there was an overall sense of misleading by extremists. It was evident, religion could have been used for worldly purposes and that made a lot a of people stray away from the real teachings with misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Bangla took up the time to do a retrospective analysis of select Lalon songs with a "discussion" on religious spirituality with Rob Fakir (Gopal) , a baul featured extensively throughout the album. This is a unique approach that was unheard of in the band music scene during that time. B...

"Ichchhe Ghuri" is the sophomore album of popular band of Bangladesh, Shironamhin . It was released on May 1, 2006 from G-Series, which had also re-released the bands debut album. As for the album, it has some experimental sounds, comapared to "Jahaji". The theme on this album was "Urban Crisis", touching upon Jahaji's approach. The purpose of this album was to familiarize the listeners into their signature sound as well as understand the lyrical messages and draw the images or characters with their own fantasy. This album introduced the listeners to great hits like, "Pakhi", "Cafeteria", "Shodesh", "Ichchhe Ghuri" etc. Banglalink, an emerging telecom at that time, sponsored the album for its intial release in 2006. A re-release of this album by G-Series also exists as a paperback. The lineup for "Ichchhe Ghuri" consisted of: Ziaur Rahman Zia: Bass Tanzir Tuhin: Vocals Kazi Ahmad Shafin: Drums T...

"Hok Kolorob" is the sophomore album of renowned Bangladeshi fusion artist, Shayan Chowdhury Arnob . This album was released in August of 2006 from Bengal Music Company (BMC) ltd. After the massive success of his debut album, Chaina Bhabish, Arnob continued gaining a huge popularity among the youth with his second album. Producing evergreen hits like, "Tomar Jonno", "Hok Kolorob", "Bhalobasha Tar Por" and "Tor Jonno", Arnob's legacy had been cemented again in the Bangladeshi music scene. This album was also the start of Arnob's many releases (Solo and Compilation/Producing) from BMC. Arnob's ex-wife Sahana Bajpaie was also heavily featured in this album providing backing vocals as well as writing the lyrics to "Tomar Jonno". Furthermore, lyricist Taufique Riaz made another return to this album with writing 7 of 13 total songs. Rajib Ashraf and Milita also contributed in writing some songs. In the album slee...