A
quest for new sound - Habib Wahid
After Shono! Habib is back with Panjabiwala featuring Shireen.

The celebrated artiste- singer and composer Habib is perhaps
never short of coming up with exclusive and unique tracks.
Following instant success of Shono! Habib
is back this Eid with his much anticipated album ‘Panjabiwala’.
His
collaboration with Shireen has certainly added to the quality of the
album. The tune is simply tantalising and towards the beginning Shireen’s
dreamy, yet boyish, voice with the verse Roshik telkajala, oi lal kurtawala…dili
boro jala re panjabiwala…moves ones’ sensibilities. She has
a deep accent which captures the baul essence very well.
Habib himself speaks of Shireen very highly. ‘There are two ways in which
I can work with good music. One is by producing remixes or composing my own
music and the other is when I find a great voice to collaborate with. When
I first heard Shireen, I thought she has massive talent in her voice. I instantly
knew that folk would best suit her energetic vocal tune’.
‘
I met her around the same time as Kaya and Helal. She never had any professional
training and her raw voice appealed to me’, he added.
While his debut, the second and the third albums were strictly
jolly electronic compositions, in this album he broadens
his scope to include
elements of fresh,
funky and easy beats. The tracks Shahjalal Shahporan and Na jene
bhul bujhona are such tunes and are already huge hits in
the audio market.
A studio engineer and musician by profession, Habib has recorded,
mixed music and collaborated with artistes, produced audio albums
and much
more. He has
remixed, re-made almost all sorts of tunes, from the Bauls of Bengal
to the old Bengali classic hits. His sound production is vibrant,
crisp and
alive.
With a good sound production experience under his belt of five
studio albums, he is surely one of Bangladesh’s most highly skilled electronic musicians.
Habib thinks he has this overgrowing weakness towards folk
music. ‘Since
musicians like me don’t create folk music, the only way we can work with
that genre is by creating interesting remixes. I think folk music should be
known to all music enthusiasts and people of Bangladesh’.
In Panjabiwala, he has put a fresh catalogue of studio skills
and has come up with another toffee of an album, capturing full
scale
sound
effects with loud international quality production and Shireen’s voice -
which is pure magnetism by itself.
But not all of Habib’s fans seem to have accepted this compilation like
its ancestors. They felt that their expectation was not met. To this, Habib
replied, ‘I made this album mainly for the mass audience and so will
be my upcoming solo project. And honestly, there is this whole different level
of satisfaction to work for a project which would be liked by most people’.
‘
I strictly believe that it is high time to educate all our listeners with new
sound so that they appreciate this new shift of compositions and try to grab
them more affectionately’, Habib adds.
About the album, Habib stated that this album would appeal
to most of his fans with the passage of time instead of an
immediate ‘hit’ like
his previous ones.
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