Chirkutt

Chirkutt
Origin Dhaka, Bangladesh
Genres Epic Fusion, pop
Years active 2002 – present
Members Pavel Areen
Sharmin Sultana Sumi
Jahid Nirob
Emon Chowdhury
Didar Hasan
Past members Rashed Sharif Shoaib, Sabbir Ahmed, Rokon Emon, Pinto Ghosh, Anwar Shafiq Tomal, Parvez Sazzad.

Chirkutt is the Internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi fusion band.[1] It was founded in 2002.[2]

History

This band was born in 2002 with Sharmin Sultana Sumi.[3] Emon Chowdhury joined in 2006 and Pavel Areen joined in 2008.[3][4] Eight years after the band was born they had their first album released. The name of the album was Chirkuttnama.[5]

Chirkutt's performed at SXSW-2016 in Austin, USA[6] and South Asian Band Festival-Delhi, India, the President house concert in India-2014, India Music Week and the Jaffna Music Festival, Sri Lanka. They were also the winners of the RTV Best Band Award 2012.[2] Chirkutt band has also embarked for a tour in Norway with Norwegian rockers Casa Murilo in 2013.[7] They performed on Asian TV music show in September 2016.[8]

Members

The band members are as follows - Pavel Areen (drums, percussion, sound producer), Emon Chowdhury (guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele) Sharmin Sultana Sumi (vocals, lyrics, tune, and manager), Didar (bass), and Jahid Hasan Nirob (keys, harmonium, strings instruments).[3] Their tracks are recorded, mixed and mastered at Butter Records, and Studio Chirkutt, their own studios. Chirkutt band has their own sound engineer for live shows. Faiz Sagor is the Band Live Sound Engineer.

Discography

  • Chirkuttnama (2010)[5]
  • Jadu'r Shohor (2013)[5]
  • Udhao (2017)[9]

Award

SAARC film festival award for best original score in the film Jalaler Golpo, Citycel-Channel i music awards, RTV Best Band Award-2012[10]

Chirkutt in film

The band has also worked on several local film music director. Among notable films, "Jalal's Story", the film 2015 in the 88th edition of the Academy Awards, the Oscar for foreign language film category this movie is selected from Bangladesh. They have also won the "SAARC" film festival award in 2016 for the best original score of the film "Jalaler Golpo".[11] Chirkutt also have done the playback in the movies "Television",[12] and "Piprabidya",[13] of Renowned director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. They did the soundtract of Aynabaji of Amitabh Reza Chowdhury 2016 film,[14] Ice cream of Redowan Rony. Chirkutt did the soundtrack of the movie “Tumi Je Amar” by RTV.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Chirkutt gives Bangla music Latin twist". The Daily Star. 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  2. 1 2 "Chirkutt to perform at SXSW as 1st Bangladeshi band". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  3. 1 2 3 "CHIRKUTT Back Stage Pass". The Daily Star. 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  4. ↑ "Plugged-in: Emon Chowdhury". The Daily Star. 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  5. 1 2 3 "[WATCH] An evening with Chirkutt". The Daily Star. 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  6. ↑ "SXSW Music: Chirkutt". Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  7. ↑ "Norge - Bangladesh tur/retur - dagsavisen.no" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  8. ↑ "Chirkutt to perform live on Asian TV". New Age. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  9. ↑ "Chirkutt all set to release third album". New Age. 10 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "রঙিন চিরকুট". Daily Voomi. Archived from the original on 2015-10-04.
  11. ↑ "Chirkutt bags first international award". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  12. ↑ "Chirkutt Fascinates CU Students". The Daily Star. 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  13. ↑ "Pipra Bidya". The Daily Star. 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  14. ↑ "Chirkut's new track for Aynabaji and 'Doob' of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki". Dhaka Tribune. 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  15. ↑ "Chirkutt's song in "Tumi Je Amar"". The Daily Star. 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
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