Shadhin's a cappella love song medley an instant hit

An a cappella medley of Bangla love songs through the ages, produced by private radio station Radio Shadhin 92.4FM marking Valentine's Day, has created quite a stir on social media. Titled “Bhalobasha'r Shomoy”, the medley uses only vocal harmonics and beatboxing (percussive sounds with the mouth), and goes through lines of a staggering 29 songs in a fairly chronological order, from 1950s classic “Nishi Raat Baka Chand Akashe” to hit tunes of the 2010s like “Ekta Gopon Kotha” and “Bhalobasha Tarpor”, closing with Vikings' “Bhalobashi Jarey”.

Within 20 hours of the release of the video (on the night of Valentine's Day), the song hit close to a hundred thousand views and more than 1,600 shares on Facebook.

Shadhin's radio jockeys, producers and sound engineers Bart Nandit Areng, Rushnaf Wadud, Farsim Ahmed, Moktadir Dewan Shanto and Sukannya Ghosh feature in the medley, and their delivery is as musically spot on as visually entertaining. Glitch Studios has produced the video.

A cappella medleys are not a new concept in popular music culture, but this is possibly the first example of it in Bangla, and the response will surely inspire musicians, even amateurs, to attempt similar tributes or medleys in coming days.