Concert From Bangladesh is a mixed reality music concert, using cutting edge technology to take audiences on a virtual audio-visual journey through Bangladesh past and present, encompassing mystical Baul singers from rural Kushtia, experimental electronics and hip hop from the streets of Dhaka, interspersed with archival and contemporary documentary footage.
UBIK Productions (London) and Samdani Art Foundation (Dhaka) supported by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund commissioned Shezad Dawood to create a virtual reality stage for a concert released on 1 August 2021, expanding on the 50 year legacy of Concert For Bangladesh: the original charity concert by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison of Beatles’ fame, in aid of the relief effort and refugee crisis during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
