Run-through
Lalon Band’s tune ‘Khepa’ looks into the significance of insanity. Nigar Sultana Sumi’s vocals mix gospel, folk, and rock. The tune draws from the Baul custom and Lalon Shah’s mentors. ‘Khepa’ motivates listeners to discover flexibility. It prompts self-reflection and obstacles standard concepts. The music develops a trance-like experience. It influences listeners to accept life’s lightness.
The Bengali word ‘khepa ‘is layered, however at its core it implies absent-minded, eccentric to the point of seething. In the goosebumps-inducing tune’Khepa’, Bangladeshi Lalon Band drives home how’mad’the concept of looking for things and desiring to belong is.
Nigar Sultana Sumi’s raw vocals is part-gospel, part-folk, with dollops of heavy rock riffs enhancing her voice. ‘Khepa re, keno khujish mon-er manush, bole shorbodai khepa re’-” Hey insane, why do you look for your individual,’ states the insane all the time.’
From the 2009 album of the very same name, like Lalon Band’s other tracks, ‘Khepa’ is soaked in the mystical-troubadour viewpoint of bauls, specifically 19th c. poet-singer Lalon Shah. From the extremely first couple of bars, the tune does not simply start, it awakens. Trance-like and driven, it’s a call to browse all the miasma and feel the lightness of life. ‘Apni master, apni chela’-You’re the expert, you’re the disciple,’ Sumi sings, while the guitar stitches before the cymbals come crashing.
‘Khepa’ is an invocation to get things. And to see what seething truly is: being an absolutely totally free representative.