Shironamhin - শিরোনামহীন

Some music lovers who felt like roaming around the city were nothing different but sailing into the crowded urban duelers' sea formed Shironamhin. They were not much ambitious yet eager to practice music; casually singing with a simple acoustic guitar & clapping or beating on tabletops started their musical voyage in 1996. At first, they used to jam & perform in the campus gossip areas & street crowd. Over time, they began to perform live performances on the campus stage,... Read More

Some music lovers who felt like roaming around the city were nothing different but sailing into the crowded urban duelers' sea formed Shironamhin. They were not much ambitious yet eager to practice music; casually singing with a simple acoustic guitar & clapping or beating on tabletops started their musical voyage in 1996. At first, they used to jam & perform in the campus gossip areas & street crowd. Over time, they began to perform live performances on the campus stage, bringing in some inevitable changes in the use of instruments. Introduced plugged guitar & sarod along with drums. Fortunately, they've got enough encouragement from the audience that motivated them to give some serious thoughts about releasing an album. They hardly covered other artists. Most of the songs they used to perform were entirely new for the audience & earned some respect for the lyrics & tune, especially the lyrics on short timeframe & having the color of magic realism. They had more than 50 songs & compiled 10 out of them and 1 instrumental for their debut album "jahaji," which was based on some urban struggle that makes someone think he is a lonely sailor sailing around the known streets of the city in quest of life. 

They started with an utterly unplugged approach & have applied changes over time to describe their nature & rock-based color more. But they didn't give up the acoustic approach. They have played sarod in their live performances & they still do for the TV/FM radio lives. Farhan used to play sarod. He left Bangladesh for higher studies that made shironamhin think differently about compositions. In the album, Bondho janala, they have used silver flute & esraj in the compositions with the help of guest artists. Farhan played sarod in one song, communicated & sharing thoughts with shironamhin through the internet, and recorded his instrument in an Australian recording studio. In the 4th album, Shironamhin Rabindranath, a tribute to Tagore shironamhin, has changed the whole approach in composition. 39 acoustic instruments were played in that album which they had to arrange from all over the globe. This passionate practice of acoustic instruments encouraged the young musicians to learn acoustic & classic instruments instead of using easily downloadable loops & cheap software-based music.

Shironamhin worked on the self-titled album with 2.5 years of musical effort & recording process. This time they tried to do every playing on their own. Zia & Shafin have spent some sweat on learning to play sarod. Zia had to learn to play violin & cello to enrich the compositions that demanded so. Later Shafin came up with playing recorder flute, too & thus, Shironamhin tried to encourage young upcoming musicians to explore their talents in learning different original instruments that can contribute to music scenarios multi-directionally. Shironamhin has changed in approach and tried to input matured thoughts & musical experience on their self-titled album. After 17 years of a musical journey, Shironamhin could dare to release their self-titled album. Later they planned on releasing singles regularly & make compilation albums for collectors to support changed technological advancements & modern listening media & habits.

Shironamhin effectively created a very complicated hepatic quality of lyrics by putting side by side contrasting allegories of urban myth, the melancholy state of the human soul, and their expectation from life itself. They have tried simple metaphors for urban lifestyles or the basic needs people can experience in their daily routine. Shironamhin paints the ruthless landscape in the context of life and the scale of urbanity; they depict the rustic rural within a controlled yet personalized emotional content. The nature that made Shironamhin the talk of the town band is their achievement of being self-sufficient in every way. The construction of lyrics, tune & composition, sound production, and graphical skill & design presented made them one & only in Bangladesh.

Shironamhin believes that a perfect tune can only grow through crawling up the body of text and breed only within the ontological situation of human uttering. They also believe that only by using the proper rhythms of Bengali diction and through an extension of that rhythm it is possible to find a good tune (body) for a fitting lyric (soul). And probably, this new understanding of music can change the common trend of Bengali band music culture, which will offer a new era of communicative music.

Some music lovers who felt like roaming around the city were nothing different but sailing into the crowded urban duelers' sea formed Shironamhin. They were not much ambitious yet eager to practice music; casually singing with a simple acoustic guitar & clapping or beating on tabletops started their musical voyage in 1996. At first, they used to jam & perform in the campus gossip areas & street crowd. Over time, they began to perform live performances on the campus stage,... Read More