The Mothership Records

26/07/2024

Dear Shafin bhai,

How do I begin to explain to anyone who’s reading this how fu***ng cool you were?

Here’s an example: five minutes before a live show on air at the radio, one of us in the control room noticed his E string was out of tune, and for some reason he hadn’t flagged it yet. Four producers in the room, some of the best background people in music you’ve probably never heard of but are behind the magnificent sound of the shining lights on stage; not one of us had the cojones to tell this.. living legend, this inscrutable rockstar, that he was out of tune. One of us finally scrunched up what little courage we had, and relayed it to him over the monitoring headphones. He just grinned, as if a whole roomful of musicians didn’t just hear him being called out, and looked at the window towards us, a Cheshire Cat like schoolboy “whoops” written on his face, and effusively thanked us for the direction, and then tuned up and belted out two hours of banger after banger. We had always heard the mythos of rockstars and their egoes and images: this completely rocked our collective world.

Over time, we’ve had our disagreements; it’s only fair that two individual brands of politics can only go as far as to agree to disagree. Yet, we’ve had the pleasure of having him in our studio a handful of times; we’ve rarely met a more courteous, and more importantly, a more professional musician in our time in this historic music scene of ours. And that moment meant the world to us.

I’ve had the honour of getting to know almost all of my heroes from childhood to my formative years, and have always been very abashed about taking pictures with them: it seemed unprofessional and distasteful to me for some godforsaken reason, to take advantage of my standing to be a fan. In this man’s case, though, I had to make an exception. He was the first man who had come alive from cassette to reality to a five year old living in a far flung town, and when Miles finished the set with “Chaad Tara”, all of us kids had tears in our eyes while screaming out the lyrics: it was the song of our time.

Farewell, hero. You may be gone, but the groove you’ve left us with will live on forever.

R.

26/07/2024

“হানাদারের কবল থেকে কবরে,
আজ আমাদের ঘুম নেই;
শরীরটা কি তবে রক্ত-মাংস? (-বুলেট)
আজ আমাদের ঘুম নেই।

ঘুম ভেঙে যায় বাঘের গর্জনে।।

17/02/2024

“Pink”: READ! (TL;DR alert)

• a graphic novella with an album hidden inside •

This week marks 4 years (on Valentine’s, fittingly), when we officially released “Pink” into the world, at Ekushe Boi Mela (National Book Fair), under and its sub brand, Protik Publications. Why was it not on the radar as much as it should’ve been? Well, a week from the day, the whole world shut down from that monstrous COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns. What luck, we said sardonically to ourselves and moved on with our lives, that would be changed forever.

What is “Pink”? Well, as we just mentioned, the world changes forever, and it’s a phenomenon that is as constant as February coming back every year to tease us. LPs and then cassettes were moved on when CD-ROM became a thing; that, in turn, was replaced slowly but surely by MP3 technology, and subsequently, our modern mode of listening, online streaming. So when a band like asks its label, how does one create a physical copy of an album we’ve just distributed online on all platforms like Spotify and the likes.. we needed to get creative. And boy howdy did we get creative with it!

“Pink” is a collaboration between band , painter , and writer/poet . On the surface, it is a simple coffee table book sized graphic novella, a reimagining of Petty’s debut, “The Pink Album”, into a story about a boy and a girl, and the cycle of love and season. Hidden in the book, though, one may find a QR code, dressed as a pink, blossoming flower, which, when availed with one’s mobile device, transports the reader directly to a whole listening experience that is “The Pink Album”.

It’s been four years today, and we urge you to find this one-of-a-kind piece of art from the depths of the internet, and if intrigued, or a fan of any of the artists involved, buy it as a collectible. Sadly, “Pink” has sold out on but if enough of you request for a reprint, then who knows? Maybe you’ll still find it hiding under piles of other books at the Abosar/Protik stall at the Book Fair.

বিকেলটি এখনও অনন্ত। সন্ধ্যা ঘনিয়ে আসার আগে ফুলটি তুলে নিন।

Best wishes,

R.

09/02/2024

Azwaad’s “Komola Tiger” it out!!!

https://youtu.be/sX5fn0Rxxzo?si=21V03hUTH_YBUdUR:

Our baby boy indie singer-songwriter’s debut full length release after the sleeper hit that was the “Bhul Ronger Phool” EP released back in 2019, features some new and established hitters from the real underground indie collective of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is a kaleidoscope of experimental and alternative pop styled music that smiles in secret ever so often, upon closer listen.

“Komola Tiger” is out now all across the world on all streaming platforms, courtesy your very own friendly neighbourhood dadabhai, the Mothership Records! Go to the link in bio and enjoy the weekend like the Tiger you are!

23/04/2023

Five years’ time.

21/04/2023

Start anew, Pikachu!

Blunderware's single "Side A" has an official lyric video out! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otzNPSSDIkc

13/11/2021

Ladies and germs, Mr. AZ Ishraque.

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29/10/2021

Listen to Darkling along with Scionara Shehry and Deepti Huq sing a rendition of the Staves’ “Mexico”.

Full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jCQN80V7Qz4