"This will be vintage Chandrabindoo. And sittings have already begun to give final shape to the songs which will be composed and put to life by me, Upal, Chandril and other key members of our band," Chandrabindoo front man-film music director-journalist-actor Anindya Chatterjee told IBNS here.
He was speaking on the sidelines of an ad jingle launch programme in the run-up to the pujas with the lyrics composed by Anindya, also the maker of 'Open Tee Bioscope', the 2015 film centred on North Kolkata of the early 90s.
"The solo album will have solo songs of all known Chandrabindoo faces - me, Upal, Chandril and every key member of that group. And yes it will be an extension of the old Chandrabindoo magic in contemporary times. From the response of the present audience to our past tracks, we are making no stone unturned to connect with them," Anindya, a literary commentator of the present times, explained.
Coming to the lyrics of the puja theme song based on para feel, Anindya said, "It retains the very Bengaliness, which is a hallmark of all our creations. We can't do without these references. And puja and adda are prerequisites of any Bengali identity."
He said the lyrics of the theme song - aschhe puja, sajchhe amar para, sarat meghe kasfuler kuchuti, pujor meeting phuchka diye sara, parar sabar notun jama choti, pandalete sunchhi mahalaya, anjalir phul porlo kar hate (puja days are here, different neighborhoods in city are decked up) - poured out spontaneously like any true blue Bengali and put to music.
"We did not merely treat it as ad jingle but as another puja song," he said about the song having the voice of him and a female singer.
Image: Facebook page of Chandrabindoo
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