The Soul Connection - Bolepur Bluez  (Music, Audio CD)

The music of the Bauls (group of mystic minstrels from Bengal), Baul Sangeet, is a particular type of folk song. It carries influences of Hindu bhakti movements as well as the suphi, a form of Sufi song exemplified by the songs of Kabir. Their music represents a long heritage of preaching mysticism through songs in Bengal.

Bauls use a number of musical instruments to embellish their compositions. The ektara is a one-stringed plucked drum drone instrument, and by far the most common instrument used by a Baul singer. Other commonly used musical instruments include the dotara, a long-necked fretless lute (while the name literally means two stringed it usually has four metal strings); drums like the duggi, a small hand-held earthen drum, and dhol and khol; small cymbals called khartal and manjira, and the bamboo flute. The Soul Connection  debut album of band BOLEPUR BLUEZ promises all this and more with a modern musical arrangement to traditional Baul Music. The Bolepur Bluez have been quarter finalists in one of Indias most popular talent hunt shows aired on television - INDIAS GOT TALENT - KHOJ 2. As Indias queen of hearts, Sonali Bendre says... True fusion is what Bolepur Bluez is all about!

Here is what the band has to say about their music: On our way to re-create the ethnic traditional sound from the soil of West Bengal which is known as Baul, we are a group of four musicians who are on a tryst to take this traditional Bengali music to an international platform, where we are amalgamating Baul with the age old traditional sound from the grass roots of the western countries, known as the Blues.