They have also performed in various local TV channels and Radio live shows. Joler Gaan has also collaborated with well-known French musician Abaji and the Scottish musician Colin Blakey. The band performed in cities like Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong and Khulna, and at important venues such as the Russian Cultural Centre, Dhaka Goethe Institute, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Jahangirnagar University and Chhayanaut, among others. They subsequently performed at Royal Museum in Edinburgh and at the London Mela in London. Joler Gaan began its musical journey at the World Sufi Festival in Glasgow in 2006. More importantly, it is earthy and connected to the soil. Their music is very much contemporary, yet distinctive. The lyrics of Joler Gaan are based on what the band describes as ‘human stories’ of love, sorrow, pain, despair, courage, nature and other ideas and emotions which people can relate to them. It is composed of theatre activists and visual artists. The band believes that their spiritual and emotional awareness originated from water and hence, they are Joler Gaan, meaning music of the water.
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