F O S S I L S
Primetime, Saturday, October 17, 2015
Rupam Islam: the singer-songwriter
That he is the most electric performer in our part of the world is general knowledge stuff by now. What the general audience never got to see is the songwriter self of the man, the intimate side of the rockstar. Rupam would just pick up his guitar and sing - leaving a format, or a song list, or all other things that make a performance a rule-bound affair far behind. Mesmerized to the core, this man is equally as scintillating, if not more, when he drifts along his songs all alone. It would have been unjust to the man, to his audience, and also to the Bangla music scene as a whole if these performances were restricted to only a handful few - the history of Bangla music would miss out on an enigmatic chapter.
About the Band:
Fossils came to be at a time when ‘Bangla Rock’ was taking baby footsteps. The little work that was happening in the genre of ‘rock music’ was limited to ‘one off’ songs amongst many. No constructive effort was made to establish the genre of ‘rock’ in the bangla music scenario. Fossils burst onto this scene and changed it.
Rupam Islam, after his debut solo album launched in 1998, went on to form Fossils a year later, with a handful of musical colleagues who shared his vision of a band that would push the envelope in contemporary Bengali rock. Fossils was not only the first to do continuous constructive work in Bangla Rock but had decided - success or failure - they will stick to their genre. Hence many believe and consider Fossils to be the pioneers in Bangla Rock.
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Rupam Islam: the singer-songwriter
That he is the most electric performer in our part of the world is general knowledge stuff by now. What the general audience never got to see is the songwriter self of the man, the intimate side of the rockstar. Rupam would just pick up his guitar and sing - leaving a format, or a song list, or all other things that make a performance a rule-bound affair far behind. Mesmerized to the core, this man is equally as scintillating, if not more, when he drifts along his songs all alone. It would have been unjust to the man, to his audience, and also to the Bangla music scene as a whole if these performances were restricted to only a handful few - the history of Bangla music would miss out on an enigmatic chapter.
About the Band:
Fossils came to be at a time when ‘Bangla Rock’ was taking baby footsteps. The little work that was happening in the genre of ‘rock music’ was limited to ‘one off’ songs amongst many. No constructive effort was made to establish the genre of ‘rock’ in the bangla music scenario. Fossils burst onto this scene and changed it.
Rupam Islam, after his debut solo album launched in 1998, went on to form Fossils a year later, with a handful of musical colleagues who shared his vision of a band that would push the envelope in contemporary Bengali rock. Fossils was not only the first to do continuous constructive work in Bangla Rock but had decided - success or failure - they will stick to their genre. Hence many believe and consider Fossils to be the pioneers in Bangla Rock.
Click here for more information.
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