Angaraag Mahanta known as Papon is an Indian singer, composer and record producer.[1] Born to music duo and legends of Assamese music, Archana Mahanta and Khagen Mahanta, he was introduced to music early on in his childhood.
His first language is Assamese and he also sings in Hindi and Bengali. His initial training was in Indian Classical and devotional and folk music. He learnt vocals primarily but also plays the khol, tabla, guitar, and harmonium.
His music genres are ambient electronic, acoustic folk and new age Indian classical music and has been identified as having traces of pentatonic Mongoloid notes, local river song influences and ghazals.
Papon has performed with the MIDIval Punditz and Karsh Kale at various festivals around the world including the Paléo Music Festival in Switzerland, Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Mosaic Music Festival in Singapore and Oslo World Music Festival in Norway. Aside from performing with them, Papon has co-written a couple of songs with the MIDIval Punditz that featured on their third album Hello Hello which ranked among the top three songs on Amazon, worldwide.He collaborated with the Welling Jazz Band, in Wellington, New Zealand, for a project with them playing some of his music live for the festival Crossings in Wellington, New Zealand in 2007. Also in the project was Rihan Sheehan, a popular electronic artist and producer from Wellington. He also wrote a song with Karsh Kale for his new album Cinema. He is presently working on two international collaborations which will be released in 2012.Papon released his first album, Junaki Raati in Assamese at the end of 2004, marking a new kind of regional sound.The second album he produced was Sinaaki Osinaaki, which was released in November, 2009. Papon also has sung on a few other albums produced by various artists in Assam. His first folk music album was Rangphul a Bihu album, after which he produced Gomseng and subsequently, Phagunor Gaan an album representing the typical holi songs of Borpeta in West Assam.
Papon has been featured on albums by labels MDR Records, in a tie up with Times Music, and has also been featured on the soundtrack of Bollywood films Dum Maaro Dum, I Am Kalam and most recently, Soundtrack. He has been featured on the Indian leg of the show Coke Studio in MTV.
He performed on the show Global Indian Film Awards with Midival Punditz, Kailash Kher and Shubha Mudgal. He also appeared on Star world India, Episode six of The Dewarists with Rabbi Shergill and recorded a song Khule Da Rabb. At i would like to mention that he is been so popular mainly in the newzeland and other parts of the world because of his divine folk music which papon knows for........the story is really a story of a musician with exceptional quality....
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