Thank you Valmiki Bab, for sharing the gems of Goan Music
Regarding the konkani songs, this is what I'm saying to Goemkars around the
world, to listen to konkani songs and brush up their konkani. There are a
few sites
and radios available for free listening. The first goan radio on the net
available
at :http://www.live365.com/stations/61664 has been providing konkani songs
for
many years now.
Recently I came across a website by Dr. Lourenco Noronha
http://www.songs-from-goa.at/goa/ which has the oldest Goan traditional
songs
lyrics with notes, besides a few other sites where Lyrics of Konkani songs
are available.
It is hard to find these old songs either on cassettes or CD's. Even songs
which we used
to hear on the good Old Akashwani in the 60-70's are not available.
The tiatrist themselves have not been able to save their songs, including
our late Melody King
Alfred Rose. It would be a good idea if goans holding the old
records/cassettes convert them
to CD/mp3 audio, so that we can preserve these songs.
Dev borem korum
Edward Verdes
http://kantaram.blogspot.com/
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From: "Valmiki Faleiro"
GOAN MUSIC
By Valmiki Faleiro
Among my many debts of gratitude, one I owe is to Goan music. To
‘Cantorists’ and
lyricists of Konknni songs. To those who set the verses to music, and
produced a
repertoire very dear to a substantial segment of Goans. From old-world
gramophone
records, transistor radio and the first cinema, it was the music that took
me to the songs.
The songs then took me to the lyrics.
That is how Konknni songs, among few other things like Konknni-speaking
friends and
the ever witty, wise, and often wacky, world of Konknni adages, improved
my otherwise
severely limited vocabulary of the mother tongue. To them all who
scripted, scored and
sang all those great Konknni songs, here is a humble salute.
