Singer, composer and producer Armeen Musa has released Bengali Folk Vocals (Baul) — a new vocal sample pack now available globally on Splice, one of the world’s leading music production platforms.

Baul music -- the wandering, mystical sound of Bengal’s soil -- has long belonged to akhras, village courtyards and spiritual gatherings. Now, it is travelling somewhere unexpected: into the laptops ...

New Delhi: Bangladesh has been witnessing a wave of arrests, attacks, and intimidation against Baul singers—the historic wandering mystic minstrels from rural West Bengal and Bangladesh. The latest to ...

Mystic ambience, soulful music and a slight nip in the air perfectly summed up the mood at the Baul Fakir Utsav in Shaktigarh Ground recently. This annual event brings together bauls from rural Bengal ...

Thank you for your time. Could you please share your experience of being in Santiniketan and how this place shaped your singing career? I started singing folk songs when I was thirteen years old. I ...

“Aami kichui jaani na, Aami kichui jaani na” (I don’t know anything, I don’t know anything), said a Baul gurujee from Kolkata with an entire world of wisdom flowing from his eyes to a small audience ...

HYDERABAD: A musical tradition links Bangladesh to West Bengal and there are songs which cannot be divided into two, unlike land, says artist Tapasi Roy Chowdhury of ‘Baul’ music. Folk music is an ...

Parvathy Baul on how destiny pushed her to make this mystical singing tradition a global phenomenon Mukolakkal in Nedumangad (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) is the unlikeliest place to meet a “baul” ...

There’s about eight of us crammed into a makeshift thatch hut so tiny you have to get on your knees to crawl in. We make for an odd menagerie. In one corner, a 20-something young man in a hoodie and a ...