MUMBAI: YouTube sensation band Sanam, stays the craze even today because of their experimentations. The band’s newest outing is a have recreated Tagore’s Amar Mallika Bone, along with singer Paroma Dasgupta. The song is a tribute to the Nobel laureate Ravindra Nath Tagore, and is befittingly released with Bengali New year just celebrated.
“We (Sanam Band) have a sizable Bengali audience. Also, our first rendition of Rabindra Sangeet, Tumi Robe Nirobe’ received amazing response. So, it was a good idea to do this song. With this song, we made sure it is not cluttered with lot of instruments. For this song, we also have additional arranger with Gaurav Godkhindi,” says the Bass guitarist Venkat Subramaniyam.
This rendition also sees a collaboration with singer Paroma Dasgupta, “We have been looking for the right opportunity to collaborate with Paroma. This song was right, since her voice blended well with Sanam. Her manager introduced us couple of years ago. We tried couple of songs and zeroed down on this one,” shares Keshav, the drummer.
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He continues, “With our every song, we take turns in taking charge, someone handles the chords, someone else the beat. So, everybody has a contribution. Paroma being a Bengali and trained classical musician was of great help as she could explain the nuances of the song.”
Watch the song below:
One thing that the whole band resonates is that they want to work more for regional music.
Venky shares, “Definitely we want to work more on regional music. However, before that we would like to learn the language, and the nature of the music.”
Sanam continues, “If we were doing Bollywood, we would be bound to do certain kind of music, however, since we are doing independent music we are in an open world. This gives us freedom to explore, so we are looking forward doing some great work in regional work.”
Keshav shared, “Working for regional music will help us grow as artistes and replenish our music bank. But these songs take time.”
Samar Puri also has a point of view, “Our regional music is so rich and there is so much to explore. We would also like to work for Gujarati songs.”
Sanam says, “Our previous rendition of Rabindra Sangeet was without any collaboration. We know how Bengalis are particular about pronunciations, therefore at that time, we made our song to be heard by a friend, who is in from Bangladesh and now resides in Canada. Even, with this song, we got the song vetted by her and she was happy with the song. Having Paroma therefore was extremely good.”
The classically trained vocalist Paroma Dasgupta is ecstatic about being a part of this song, “Having grown up in a musical household, Rabindra Sangeet has been an integral part of our fabric. Every time I sing Rabindra Sangeet, it reminds me of my childhood. As for our single, working with Sanam has been a fabulous experience. We extensively went through a lot of songs to finally decide on this one. When we started jamming on it, everything just automatically felt so right, that all of us organically started adding elements to it and let the music guide us,” she said.
Keshav signs off saying, “It is a beautiful song with soulful lyrics. Both the male and female voices are in sync.”
