Pankaj Mullick
Pankaj Mullick was a pioneering Bengali singer and composer at New Theatres who helped invent the grammar of Indian film music in the 1930s and, alongside his film work, did much to popularize Tagore's Rabindra Sangeet on record and radio. His stately, devotional-leaning voice and his early experiments with background scoring and playback shaped a whole school of Bengali and Hindi singers. He remained a revered elder statesman of the tradition long after his heyday.
the sound in question
1939
Piya Milan Ko JanaPankaj Mullick
we haven’t charted Pankaj Mullick yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.