Aabaar Bochhor Kuri Pore(') is a

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album by various musical groups and artists with a collaboration by the rock band

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. It was released in 1995 by

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. This album is not an original Moheen's album, like their earlier releases. It was released nearly twenty years after the last album by the group had been released in 1979. Many of the songs were not composed by Moheener Ghoraguli, and none of them were sung by the group. Where Moheener Ghoraguli acted as an umbrella to bring disparate bands and individuals together and provided a platform to these upcoming talents of the Bengali music scene to perform. Since their last album, most of the Moheener Ghoraguli members had moved ahead with their careers and lives, and so the only person involved in the making of this, and the next three albums, was

Gautam Chattopadhyay Gautam Chattopadhyay (1 June 1949 – 20 June 1999) was an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. In 1975, as a leader he founded the progressive rock band Moheener Ghoraguli with Tapas Das, Abraham Mazumdar, Pradip Chatt ...

Packaging

''Aabaar Bochhor Kuri Pore'' cover art depicts the

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which is an icon of the band. Cover and album artwork design by Hiran Mitra. In January 1995, a booklet of the album in the same name was published in

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Track listing

Personnel

;Artists *

– vocal *

Antara Chowdhury Antara Chowdhury (born 2 June 1970, in Mumbai, India) is an Indian singer and composer. She is a daughter of Late renowned Composer and Poet Salil Chowdhury and famous singer Late Sabita Chowdhury. She started singing at the age of 7. Her firs ...

– vocal * Rituparna Das– vocal * Chandrima Mitra– vocal * Paroma Banerji– vocal * Prabir Das– vocal * Arunendu Das– vocal * Surojit Chatterjee– vocal * Dibyo Mukhopadhyay– vocal ;Groups *

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* Garer Maath *

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;Technical * Debjit Biswas– sound * Tushar Halder– coordination *

Tapas Das Tapas Bapi Das (also known as Bapida, or its variations Bapi Da, Bapi-da, (22 September 1954 – 25 June 2023) was an Indian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the Bengali rock band Moheener Ghoraguli establi ...

– coordination *

– chief editor * Hiran Mitra– cover

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External links

* * {{Authority control 1995 albums Moheener Ghoraguli albums Bengali-language albums