Bengali Songs

Old Bengali songs were what melodious music was made of. Such rare classical traditional old Bengali song mp3 can free download are available online at a number of sites. These also provide with lyrics, videos, video clips and remix old Bengali songs downloadable for free.

The earliest Bengali music was influenced by Sanskrit chants, and evolved under the influence of Vishnu poetry such as the 13th-century Jayadeva’s Gitagovindam, whose songs continue to be sung in many eastern Hindu temples. A mixture of Hindu and Islamic trends was seen during the middle ages when the musical tradition was formalized under the patronage of Nawabs and the powerful landlords. Much of the early music is devotional, as in the Hindu devotional songs of Ramprasad Sen, a bhakta who captures the Bengali ethos Ma Kali. Another famous writer of the time was Vidyapati. Notable in this devotional poetry is an earthiness that does not distinguish between love in its carnal and devotional forms.

Rabindranath Tagore also known in Bengali as Robi Thakur and Gurudeb, the latter meaning "Divine Teacher” is considered the biggest stalwart of Bengali music and literature and to his credit a collection of more than 2000 songs. His songs are affectionately called Rabindra Sangeet, whose themes vary from romantic love in a lush Bengali setting to universal love, often inspired by the lilas of Krishna and the transcendentalism of the Upanishads. Among the most acclaimed Rabindra Sangeet artists in West Bengal are Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Debobroto Biswas, Suchitra Mitra, and, more recently, Promita Mallik.

Another influential Bengali musician is Kazi Nazrul Islam, whose work is referred to as Nazrul geeti. The most notable Nazrul geeti singers are Firoza Begum, Anup Ghoshal, and Sohrab Hossain.

The concept of patriotism entered Bengali music, beginning with the establishment of Hindu Mela in 1867 and the patriotic genre became a major part of Bengali music until its independence in 1947.

Some of my favorite old Bengali songs are:

1.  Aami chini go chini tomare by Rabindranath Tagore
2. Sakhi bhabona kaharey baley by Rabindranath Tagore
3. Aakash bhara by Rabindranath Tagore
4. Tora je ja bolish by Rabindranath Tagore.

Bengali pop bands aka Bangla bands are gaining enormous popularity and achieving an iconic status. All the top hit hot new Bengali pop songs mp3 free download is available on many sites online. They also provide with the lyrics, remix Bengali pop songs, videos and video clips of the recent latest Bengali pop songs.

The Bengali pop artists or Bangla bands are gaining immense popularity in the West Bengal and Bangladesh region. The first Bangla Band was created by Mohiner Ghoraguli, but his band did not achieve wide recognition in its time. But later with the entrance of Western influences the Bangla band became popular with the younger generation especially during the 1980s and 1990s.

This was seen in both India and Bangladesh, and has since become entrenched in modern Bengali culture. Bangla bands use a wide variety of genres like rock, pop, hard rock, heavy metal, grunge, folk, and fusion. Both American popular music as well as traditional Bengali folk music such as shyama sangeet and baul influences their music. Thus it’s a good blend of Indian and western influences. Bangla bands are very popular among Bengali young people especially those residing in Kolkatta and Dhaka.

Some famous Bangla bands are Bhoomi, Chandrabindoo,Miles,Nagar Baul, Feedback,Souls, Fossils, Cactus, Lakkihichara, Krosswindz and Insomnia.

The top Bangla Band songs are:

• Bhalo bashbo by Habib Wahid
• O mor bania bandhu by Salma
• Ekbaar jodi keu by Abdul Hadi
• Amar gayr joto dukkho shoy by Nolok.

Bengali folk music or Baul music can be said to be one of the most pure forms of non-communal music. Various sites provide with free download of old rare traditional cultural folk Bengali songs mp3 or Baul songs mp3. These sites also provide with the videos, video clips, lyrics of Baul or Bengali songs, remix baul songs or remix Bengali song etc. downloadable for free.

Bengali folk music form includes baul, which is the most important and unique, others being Gombhira, Bhatiali and Bhawaiya. Folk music in Bengal is often accompanied by the ektara, a one-stringed instrument. Other instruments include the dotara, dhol, flute, and tabla. There is also an active heritage of North Indian classical music.

The Bauls are a mystic group of singers and musicians, immensely popular in the countryside. Bauls, which is a word that comes from the Sanskrit word batul, means "divinely inspired insanity". They sang primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries and are a group of Hindu mystic minstrels from the Bengal region.

They have been immensely influenced by the Kartabhajas, which is a Hindu tantric sect. and also by Sufi philosophers. Bauls traveled and sang in search of the internal ideal, Moner Manush (Man of the Heart or the inner being), and descried "superfluous" differences between religions. Considered to be the greatest of all Bauls is Lalon Fakir, alternatively known as Lalon Shah, who lived in the 19th century in and around Kushtia.

New Bengali songs are becoming popular once again and the music is being reinvented. To download free latest fresh hot hit new Bengali songs mp3 various sites are available online. These sites provide with the hit Bengali movie songs, hot Bengali pop music, traditional folk music, hot new Bengali videos and the lyrics for free download.

Modern Bengali Music has blended Western and Middle-eastern traits with traditional forms creating a music which is unique in its style and very pleasant to hear. Dwijendralal Roy and of course Rabindranath Tagore being exposed to western music at that time, are supposed to be one of the first people to bring western flavor in Bengali music.

New Modern Bengali music has been enriched by the works of critically acclaimed composer Salil Chowdhury. He has experimented with almost all musical elements and materials, available far and near, and has shown a broadness of mind and boldness of spirit that remain unique in the history of modern music. Bengali folk music, Hindustani ragas, and South Indian modalities, European music – both classical and popular – anything and everything was welcome to him as long as the raw material contributed to the making of a new song.

Singers like Hemanta Mukhopadhaya, Sandhya Mukhopadhya, Manna Dey, Sabina Yasmin, and Runa Laila have been very famous and are instrumental in getting Bengali music recognition.

Some of my favorite new Bengali songs are:

• Bhador aashin mashe from the movie Jhumur
• Dey porey dey aamey from the movie Aaj Jemon Korey Gaayiche Aakash
• Jakhan aamar gaan from the movie Rum Jhum Rum Jhum.