Matir Gaan, by Md. After Hussain & PAQ

Matir Gaan

by Md. After Hussain & PAQ

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Faisal Jewell Where Has My Beloved Gone? (Kar Bashore Roilo Bondhu) is the Best Song from the Album. When I listen to it, I imagine that I'm exploring Bangladesh in the 60s before it became Independent from Pakistan Favorite track: Where Has My Beloved Gone? (Kar Bashore Roilo Bondhu).

Ex-Friendly Hive Mind Records once again give us something we never knew we needed. A stunning collaboration between Bangladeshi migrant MD After and Italian electronic artist Andrea Rusconi offers a meditative collision of cosmic synths and ancient Baul songs that are as mystical as they are psychedelic - a great release

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1.	The Whole Day Slipped Away (Helay Khelay Moner Anonde Din Furailo - Intro) 04:10	buy track
2.	You Fed Me Poison And Called It Honey (Modhu Hoi Hoi Bish Khawaila) 03:08	buy track
3.	Where Has My Beloved Gone? (Kar Bashore Roilo Bondhu) 07:09	buy track
4.	The Whole Day Slipped Away (Helay Khelay Moner Anonde Din Furailo) 04:40	buy track
5.	My Soul Is A Bird In This Cage Of Earth (Matiro Pinjira Amar Koira Gela Khali) 02:30	buy track
6.	Pakhawaj 03:42	buy track
7.	This Golden Cage Of Mine (Shonaro Pinjira Aamar) 03:30	buy track
8.	Harmonium 04:26	buy track
9.	The Day Our Souls United (Attate Mishaia Atta) 04:59	buy track
10.	Shomapti 06:40	buy track

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Matir Gaan is a collaboration between young Bengali migrant, Mohammed After Hussain and Italian electronic artist, Andrea Rusconi (aka Paq). The resulting album delightfully combines the ancient folk songs of Md After's homeland with Paq's cosmic synth exotica.

Mohammed After Hussain escaped Bangladesh in 2015 and arrived in Italy in 2017 after a long and dangerous journey across the Mediterranean from the violence he found in Libya. In Italy he found safety and hospitality as an asylum seeker in Rimini's Associazione Ardea, where Andrea is involved with 'Ardea Recordings' - a project aiming to create an archive of songs, stories and sounds by some of the people who spent some time with Ardea's refugee programme.

Md After was invited to sing and play the folk and village songs he knew on the harmonium and pakhawaj (two headed drum) while Andrea immersed himself in the songs providing a bed of warm Crumar synth and Veena drones to create a finished album of totally unique renditions of the mystic Baul folk songs known so well by people across the Bangla speaking regions of India.

The Bauls are a famous group of wandering minstrels from the region of Bengal whose culture is derived from the teachings of the early Sufi mystics and Hindu Fakhirs. The Baul devotees are considered to be mad, or possessed, with the love of God. While transcending religion the Baul compositions celebrate celestial and earthly love and expound the key philosophy of “Deha tatta” or truth in the body, epitomised by the aphorism “whatever is in the universe is in the body”. They reach for divinity here in this world and they seek to access it through music and dance. They seek spirituality in the music, they live for the music, wandering from village to village offering ecstatic sound waves in exchange for sustenance. Their presence remains an important part of village life in Bangladesh, and this is why Md After knows the songs despite the fact he would not consider himself part of the Baul ascetic tradition.

We hope you'll enjoy this wonderfully psychedelic album with its unique interpretations of these ancient mystic songs from the earth.

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released March 25, 2022

Md. After Hussain: vocals, keyboard, pakhawaj, harmonium
Andrea Rusconi: organ, synth, electric zither, bells, tāmpurā drone, effects, bass, cymbals, metallophone, flute, veena, shruti box
Daniele Tizzano: drums
Alfonso Fortino: harmonium, vocals
Claudio Pianelli: percussion

Recorded in Rimini (Italy) by Andrea Rusconi in November 2018
Mixed and Mastered by Julian Tardo, Church Road Studios, Hove - UK
Art & Design: Theo Payne
Special thanks to Brian P. Heilman, Saumitra Deb

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