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Recorded in Bangladesh
By: Edward Brantsen / Bengal Music Company Studio, Dhaka

01. Arrival in Dhaka – Streetsounds and Hang
02. Improvisation Baul musicians
03. Shorbonasha Padma Nodee – River Song
04. East meets West – Improvisation Baul and Edward
05. Bare Bare Jeno Ashifire – River Song
06. Mourie’s party – streetsounds Dhaka
07. West meets East – Improvisation Baul and Edward
08. The river as a symbol of live – solo song by Yeasmin Ali
09. Children of Char Baludhum
10. Ami Opar Hoye Bosche Achi – River Song
11. After the monsoon – Improvisation by Edward and Frank

Corporate Social Responsibility Project
‘Living with water’
Bangladesh – The Netherlands – UK
2010

Euroconsult Mott MacDonald
P.O. Box 441
6800 AK Arnhem
The Netherlands
www.extranet.ecbmb.nl

A Corporate Social Responsibility project by Mott MacDonald, a British engineering company with subsidiary companies, Euroconsult and BMB, in the Netherlands, both of which have been working with communities and Government in Bangladesh for over thirty years to reduce poverty. Help has been and is being given to manage the use of water and also more broadly to give people skills to improve their lives, including, for example, learning English.

This music CD is a non-commercial product. The proceeds will go to the ‘Cyclone Shelter Project /Titkata School’ in Bangladesh

Baul musicians:
Singer - Sagar Baul
Flute - M.D. Bozlu
Dotara (Bangla string-instrument) - Adbul Razzak
Harmonika (harmonium) - Rasel Sarnak
Dhol (drum) - Abdul Subahan
Mondira (bells) – Mohammad Billa

No. 1, 4, 7, Edward Brantsen: Hang
No. 8: Solo singer : Yeasmin Ali
No. 11: Edward Brantsen – Ektara,
Frank Schouten - Kalimba
No. 3, 5 and 10 are traditional Baul songs.

3 - Shorbonasha Padme Nodee – Song about the river which is always moving. Sometimes it breaks the land and sometimes it builds land.

5 - Bare Bare Jeno Ashifire - Patriotic song.
We do not want to live anywhere else then in Bangladesh. Even when we will travel abroad, we will always return to Bangladesh.

10 - Ami Opar Hoye Bosche Achi - Religious song.
O All Mighty God! I am waiting to cross the river. You can take me to the other side of the river/of life. I am alone waiting on this side, waiting for your blessing

With thanks to the whole team of ‘English in Action’, Andrew Jenkins, Shorab Hossain