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Dear
Watson Brothers!!
Hi! How are you guys
doing? I bet you all are like getting invitations to perform at
places like Winter Garden (Sonargaon) and all! Don't forget to give
Imran some shares from the concert proceedings! Anyways, I am Shehab,
a friend of the revolutionary guitarist Imran from York University
in Toronto!
Well I just got your
cd from Imran a few days back, and prior to going on about the album,
I'd just like to introduce myself in terms of my music tastes. I
am an avid listener of heavy metal, rock, alternative and punk rock.
My all times favourites are Iron Maiden, Metallica and Megadeth
and a hell lot of other known and uknown bands!
I think that the album
that you have just launched will take the local music scene in Dhaka
to new levels and standards. I have followed the local music scene
ever since I was like about 8 years old, I am almost 20 now, so
it has been quite a while.
The few things that you
have introduced in your album have been, according to my observations,
done for the first time in Dhaka. The combination of the whooping
bass sound (comparable to Steve Harris' of Iron Maiden) with Imran's
distortionless Guitar riffs is amazingly, astoundingly superb.
I listen to a lot of
music, but I have never heard anything of this sort before. The
lyrics are just perfect, conveying incoherently expressed aspects
of things we experience in our daily lives. I was not surprised
at Shakib Bhai's gifted voice giving a foremost and final touch
to the songs because I have heard him do that before as well, but
the lyrics, I assume written by Shakib Bhai are just amazing, they
are just out of this world.
And what I love is that each and every song has a lot to tell us,
its not like one of those songs in which the chorus is repeated
every once in a while! The songs are full of messages!
The first three songs
do an amazing job of setting the scene for some top quality show
of bass and the distortionless guitar and the drum beats, which
variate from high to low sounds. There are times when the drums
are played really low with the combination of the distortionless
guitar and times when the loud bass and the loud drums are combined.
I just love that combination, it is really a display of experience
and talent.
Overall I am a lot more
than 'just impressed' with the work you have put behind this album.
Everything is just different and more impressive than the other
local bands. The cover design and the blurred images of the band
members! Well done guy! I can't wait to attend a concert of yours!
I am sure that you will
cater for a wide ranging taste in the local market, you really have
proved that heavy music can be played without distortionless guitar
riffs. You really have combined a lot of similar types of music
to give birth to something, which I believe everyone will listen
to, both heavy metal listeners and for example, soft rock listeners.
I was talking to Imran
yesterday about the promotion of the album here in Toronto. We are
planning on putting up some advertisements for the distribution
and selling of the album amongst the local Bangladeshi community
here, which is pretty big! So if you guys know of businessmen engaged
in doing export import businesses between Dhaka and Toronto, then
do try and do something about importing some of your cd's for sale
here in Toronto. I think that the gratifying thing is that people
will get to know you more, I am more than sure that that is way
more important than earning the few bucks selling the album.
I am really proud of
what you have done! And I really love the album! Well I'm glad that
at least Imran is here, we can like go to the Stong Pond, and I
can hear him play some of the stuff live!!
If there is anything
I could do to promote your album, whether here or in Dhaka or anywhere
else, do let me know. I can't wait to hear back from you guys!
Your website is just
hilarious, I was going to go crazy laughing, but I think you guys
need to change it very soon, because to some fans, those first impressions
do count a lot, and plus, one more thing is that, every time I listen
to your album, it just sounds better. I think that it is a beehive
of talents and things to appreciate. Everytime you hear the album,
you get to appreciate something new. I am sure you know what I mean!
Excuse me for my unprofessional
approach to appreciating your music. I only played the bass guitar
a few times, trying to play some Iron Maiden songs, but I soon gave
up. So as you may already have understood, I have very shallow knowledge
of the technical aspects of music, despite of the fact that I listen
to a lot of music!
If there is anything
at all I could do for your band, apart from listening to the amazing
music, then make sure you let me know! May Allah bless you with
a lot of success!
Take care of yourselves
and all the best!!
Shehab Hasan |