Md. After Hussain & Paq - Kar Bashore Roilo Bondhu

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Md. After Hussain & Paq is a collaboration between young Bengali singer and musician Md. After Hussain, and Italian electronic artist, Andrea Rusconi. The resulting album is the meeting of two worlds, the one of After singing the folk songs he knows by heart while playing a keyboard or a pakhawaj (drum), sharing the wisdom of the Baul tradition of his homeland, and the western side brought by Andrea working on the ambient part and the arrangements of the few instruments he added.

Bauls are a group of Bengali mystic minstrels included in the list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Theirs is an ancient musical tradition and a heterogeneous syncretic religious sect. While many religions are represented their membership consist mainly of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslim.

While transcending religion the Baul compositions are very spiritual, celebrating celestial love through a declaration of love for a life mate (bosh-tomi). The Baul philosophy includes the key concept of “Deha tatta” (Truth in the body), epitomised by the aphorism “whatever is in the universe is in the receptacle (the body)”. Their quest for divinity resides in human beings and the mean to reach it is music. They seek spirituality in the music, they live for the music, wandering from village to village offering ecstatic sound waves in exchange for sustenance.

After Hussain escaped from Bangladesh in 2015 and arrived in Italy in 2017 after a long and dangerous trip through Middle East, Turkey and Libia where he found more violence and escaped across the Mediterranean. In Italy he found hospitality as asylum seeker in Associazione Ardea, where Andrea is involved with 'Ardea Recordings' a project aiming to create an archive of songs, stories and sounds by the some of the people who spent some time with the Refugee program.

After was invited to sing and play freely while Andrea jumped into that mesmerizing brew and provided a musical environment for that lonely singing. The resulting songs are hybrid, hypnotic, ritual poems cradled by Crumar synthetizers and Veena drones but, above all, these recordings are the journey of two people coming together in music.
Hive Mind will be releasing the full album in the not too distant future.

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from The Uncanny Times, released April 26, 2020

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