Sraboner Meghgulo Joro Holo Akashe

"Sraboner Meghgulo Joro Holo Akashe" (Bengali: শ্রাবণের মেঘগুলো জড়ো হলো আকাশে, lit. 'The clouds of Srabon gathered in the sky') is a modern ballad by the Bangladeshi band Different Touch. Originally written and composed during the monsoon season of 1987 by Ashraf Babu, the song was titled "Sraboner Megh" (Bengali: শ্রাবণের মেঘ, lit. 'monsoon cloud').^[1][2] The song was first performed by vocalist Ali Ahmed Babu^[1] and has since become one of the band’s most iconic and enduring works.^[3]

In 1987, a standard full-length music album typically featured a total of twelve tracks. For Different Touch's debut album, eleven songs had already been composed and recorded. While traveling from Khulna to Dhaka for music recording, during the month of Srabon according to the Bengali calendar,^[1][3] Ashraf Babu, the band’s principal lyricist and composer, wrote and composed the song, inspired by the four consecutive days of rainfall downpour during the journey. The following morning, in the Malibagh area of Dhaka, the song was recorded alongside the rest of the album’s tracks. Shelley and Chandan from the band Winning, contributed to its instrumentation and production.^[2] Following its release, the track was selected by Electro Voice for broadcast on Bangladesh Television.^[2] During a performance of the song in 1991 at Selim Al Deen Muktamanch at Jahangirnagar University, rain unexpectedly began to fall moments after the song started. This phenomenon occurred again during another performance of the song at Muktamanch the following year.^[1][3]