The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

Shironamhin, an alternative psychedelic metal band troupe with classical flavour, is going to release its third solo album titled 'Bondho Janala' next month. Tuhin, main vocalist of the band, said this recently.

Zia and Tuhin, both the then students of architecture department of BUET, started the band 'Shironamhin' in 1996. The band released two full albums and many mixed albums. Their debut album was 'Jahazi' in the year of 2004.They made a good use of Bengali instruments. Then it has been released its second album 'Ichchhe Ghuri' in 2006. Now Zia, Tuhin, Shafin, Rajib and Tushar are members of the present line-up of the band group. One of its key members Farhan, who plays sarod for the troupe, now in busy with his higher study in Australia. Prince has also left the group.

If we look into the background of the group we found that Zia, one of the founders of the band, was in the band name 'Threshold.' Then the band was officially dismissed. Then he started 'Shironamhin' with Tuhin. They started Shironamhin in 1996. They have made the band popular by using their own style of instruments and versatility of composition. Their debut album 'Jahazi' got a good popularity of the albums of the year 2004. After two years they made another album 'Icche Ghuri,' which earned a huge popularity. The last mixed album of Shironamhin was 'Bondhuta,' a band mixed coordinated by Zooel.

Zia said, "Shironamhin believes that it is possible to find a proper tune for a proper lyric. After Jahaji and Ichchhe Ghuri, 'Bondho Janala' will be our third album and it will be published first of 2008. It is being produced on our own works station called 'Pray Shironam.' Some 11 tracks will be in the new album. Of them, the song titled 'Bullet kimba kobita' which is quite different from its plotting and texture. 'Busstpedge' and 'Bondho Janala' can be a hit number. We have introduced an orchestral influences and 'Quoire' vocals by Simin and Elita there."

Shironamhin performed in many underground and mainstream. Recently members of the band have performed in mainstream open-air concerts mostly. It performed in the NAM Conference Hall with LRB and Renaissance for NTV's third anniversary as the representative of the third generation as LRB and Reneissance were playing the role for the other two generations.

Shironamhin got a good popularity from concerts. It performed another concert in the 'Nazrul Institute' on May 1, 2007 organised by the 3rd Generation Showbiz. It also performed in many concerts including at the Bashundhara City. It showed pretty music of Bangladeshi instrument in the concerts.

Shironamhin has been nominated as the 'Best Band in 2005 and 2006 by the CJFB (Cultural Journalists Forum of Bangladesh). It also won the Best Music Video Award for 'Pakhi' at the Citycell-Channel i Music Awards in 2006.