Denying the rock band 'gharana' in Bengal is reaching its saturation point, popular Rockstar Rupam Islam today said the turnout of thousands at rock fests prove Kolkata can turn into the rock hub for regional music in the coming days.
Visibly miffed at the suggestion that the rock music audience and singers are not expanding the way they were Rupam countered, "If you say there are huge turnouts of rock lovers in a concert, you can't infer that rock music is saturating.
"The answer to our query lies in your feeback of rise in number of rock fests here in past years," the lead singer-cum-playback musician of 15-year old Fossils, which had pioneered the blues, alternative rock collage in smart, contemporary vocal Bengali dialect, said.
Reliving the huge audience response to Fossil's 'Hashnuhana' number at the biggest local band meet 'Tuborg Hungama Rockfest' here, Rupam said music will survive and sustain among the young Gen Next crowd in various forms and we can fight piracy only by devising fresh, new lyrics and original tunes to retain the audience.
"We have a rich pool of contents, we have ideas, only we can't fritter that away," the Hemlock Society singer said.
"We brought all the leading popular rock bands here - Fossils, Chandrabindoo and Blood - together for the first time, to show the city rocks. It can't be the backwate and it can't stagnate, Our aim is to reach out the 'music and fun' quotient to fans,"
With the rise in options and explosion in digital world, Kolkata band music scene cannot be seen in isolation as saturated and different types of music will grow, contemporary band music will grow, despite drop in phyiscal sale of cds," Chandrabindoo lead vocalist and music director Anindyo Chattopadhyay said.
"There is room for everything, every stream, only new mediums are emerging. That is the call of hour," he said.
