Dhaka hosts World Music Festival 2011
Dhaka hosts World Music Festival 2011 DhakaLive's Faizul Khan Tanim gets blown away by the electric grooves at this year's World Music Festival The story that Dhaka World Music Fest 2011 weaved, sounds like this – in an epic stage of sound and lights feauring artistes of mammoth proportions, audiences felt peace explode in the form of music that was heard beyond Bangladesh. As I arrived at one of the practice sessions before the two-day festival, I got an amazing education as to how the genre of world music sounds. The band on stage was jamming Esho Dekhi Kanar Haatbajar. I have heard this song plenty of times before, but this time it was utterly different. The heavy energy of the music had much to do with the improvised sounds of foreign instruments along with sounds of local instruments. It was like the world saluting our folk culture in their own style. This unbelievable energy I speak of cultivated as Close Up star Rinku was on the mic with Nazrul and Shofik on dhol, Jahan...