The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

The weather was gloomy yesterday afternoon as the torrent rains made city life paralysed for the last couple of days. At the same time yesterday was a weekly holiday. City dwellers had a little bit of space to gather or to enjoy for sometime. As a result, a huge number of people gathered at the Level-7 of Bashundhara City Complex in the evening. A concert was held at the same floor of the shopping complex in the capital.

The concert titled 'Music Revolution Concert' was full of rock melodies with metallic version songs that enthralled the viewers especially the youngsters. Simultaneously this performance also gave a new dimension to the music lovers.

Showbiz Entertainment organised the concert in association with AJI Group where The New Nation, RTV and Amar Desh were media partners of the concert.

The concert started with the solo performance of vocalist Anila. She rendered a good number of songs. She performed in her non-traditional style that enchanted the audience.

Later popular artiste Topu of band group Yaatri came with some of his popular soft melodious songs including 'Ekta gopon kotha,' 'Mithye prem,' 'Bondhu bhabo ki(?)' and 'Nupur.'

It may be mentioned that present leading metal band groups 'Arbovirus' and 'Powersurge' gave a new metallic dimension to the audience. These two bands are the second generation of metal bands in Bangladesh.

Performances of these two bands were absolutely in commanding position by using modern instrumental presentation. They also reminded the audience about the memories of songs of 80's and 90's of the last century when the western world was full of captured by 'nuisance typed sound,' which was for the people of developing countries like Bangladesh.

After evening the concert ground was fully crowded when the popular performer Sumon of band Aurthohin entered the ground. He presented some songs, which made a part of the audience nostalgic. His melodious performance with lyric-based composition gave new element to the music lovers.

Popular musician and composer Fuad came with Sumon. His composition with Sumon gave a new height of the presentation.

Then modern singer Mila came to the stage and sang some of her popular songs.

Thus ended the pleasant yesterday evening.