A cure for emotion sickness - music of Sumon, Anila and Topu...Bangladesh
A cure for emotion sickness Faizul Khan Tanim listens to two of the latest albums by Sumon & Anila and Topu, both produced by Fuad, and realizes how these songs are harnessing the power of our everyday emotional lives A soul looking for romance, love and affection is a lot like someone craving for a high. We all want the cure which will relieve our emotion sickness; we want that euphoria where there is no emptiness and no loneliness, and we want to feel inundated with love. Of course, these feelings are only temporary. Soon, the nagging starts and quite often the comical phrase of ‘wearing the three rings – the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering’ comes to life and the relationship drives the innate longing for happiness to seek a new substance all over again. These feelings are beautifully rendered in the two albums in question. It feels like the musicians, with the production of Fuad, narrate the turmoil in our lives. In the chorus of Shobar Jonno Tumi, a track f...