Arko Mukhaerjee

Arko Mukherjee is an International musician, music researcher, Urban folk artist, playback singer from Calcutta, India. He sings folk songs in various languages including Bengali and Nepali.

Early years Arko Mukhaerjee was born on 5 June 1987 in West Bengal. He formally started practicing classical music from his parents from the age of two.

In the year 2013, his first solo, Bengali folk album called 'Ghater Kotha' was released. In 2015, he released another album, called 'FIVE', an experimental folk album, based on collaborations with musicians from India and around the world. It is a text-image-music relations based album. In late 2019, Arko released 'Bondhur Bari' a purely field recording based album. He was the co-founder of the Indo-Irish musical duo project called 'Crossover' with Anna Tanvir, an Irish Harp player. The soundscape incorporated Celtic, Madagascan, American roots, gypsy jazz, Nepali, Indian, Spanish, Afro-Cuban, Senegalese and East-Bengali songs. In this project, they collaborated with Yann Beaujouan, Laurent Zeller, Alex Vousin, Kevin Goubern, Ritoban Das, Ginny Murray David, Project Caragoss, Ben Krakauer, Diptanshu Roy, and several other musicians from around the world. The Bengali folk band had the elements of Bluegrass and Appalachian music brought in by co-founder/mandolin player Diptanshu Roy. The band also explored Celtic, Afro Cuban, Middle Eastern, Jewish and gypsy soundscape. Arko is an active part of an ethno-electronic musical collaboration called Ashram, a brainchild of veteran Berlin based Indian music producer Kanishka Sarkar and the two of them have extensively toured in England, France and East-Europe alongside recording and playing together at the Indian embassy in Berlin. He was the vocalist and Ukulele player for Kolkata-based world music outfit called Ziba, conceptualized by Indian guitarist Amyt Dutta. at the Nepal Gypsy Jazz festival. In 2019, he decided to leave all other bands and start his independent projects "The Arko Mukhaerjee Collective". He has been nominated for different music awards in India for some of his songs. a documentary about Kolkata's long lasting love affair with legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.