পৃষ্ঠা এক · page one

সুধাকণ্ঠ Bhupen Hazarika

A codex of the Assamese catalogue of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika — Sudhakantha, so titled by Ananda Chandra Barua in 1968

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পটভূমি · background

Pick either one. The video is only downloaded if you ask for it, and whichever you choose is remembered next time.

সময় · on the clock

Nothing here is chosen for you and nothing is stored. The hour of the day decides what plays, so every listener on earth hears the same bar of the same song at the same instant. The songs most often asked for come round more often; the rest are the reward for staying.

দিনটো · the day

উৎসসমূহ · the sources

Every recording here sits on a channel its rights holder feeds. Nothing is taken from the fan archives, which hold more of him and can vouch for none of it.

fig. I The day drawn as one revolution. The hand stands at the true hour in Assam; the arc beneath it is the programme now sounding.

fig. II A study of the motion of air, while the song runs

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উৎস · on the source

Each recording sounds from the channel of whoever holds it, through YouTube's own player — Saregama, which is HMV under its later name and cut most of these sides itself; the catalogue his distributor delivers to his own channel; and Chiraxeuj, which reissues the dated archival sides. Nothing is copied here, and the listen is counted there, so the label and the estate are paid for it.

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99 recordings, each one checked against the channel that published it: 3,111 uploads were walked across five rights-holder channels, 660 named him, and what survived is what is here. Compilation reels, the Bengali and Hindi re-recordings, the sides other singers made of his songs, and four spellings of the same record were all put out. — assembled with care, and without a database