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Old Goan Gold
''Old Goan Gold'' is a music album by Remo Fernandes and released in 1985. It consists of songs in Konkani and Portuguese. Alisha Chinai has also performed in the album. The album, which was released on Remo's own record label, Goana Records, contains songs which Remo had grown up listening to on the radio and in his father's record collection; nostalgic songs which he could not find in record shops anymore. It was initially released on audio cassettes, with side A in Konkani, and side B in Portuguese. The album comprises traditional songs together with four originals, three in Konkani, and one in Portuguese. The original songs are: : the mando ''Panch Vorsam'' (sung by Alisha & Remo and composed by Remo for Shyam Benegal's film ''Trikaal''), ''Soiri'', ''Konkani'' (a theme song for the Konkani movement of 1985), and ''Fado Goa''. ''Soiri'' was originally a poem written by Dr. Manohar Rai Sardesai, set to music by Remo. Old Goan Gold was recorded during the monsoons and relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remo Fernandes
Luís Remo de Maria Bernardo Fernandes (born 8 May 1953) is a singer and musician from India with naturalized Portuguese citizenship. Known as a pioneer of Indian pop music, he performs pop/rock/ Indian fusion and is also a film playback singer. His musical work is a fusion of many different cultures and styles that he has been exposed to as a child in Goa and in his later travels around the world. Such influences include Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music (from Mauritius and Seychelles), African music, Latin music (from Spain and South America), the music of erstwhile European communist states, those of the dance halls from Jamaica and Soca (from Trinidad and Tobago). Writing and singing songs in English made his success more rare and distinctive in the context of the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, occasionally even disco music scene that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. His compositions in English, reflecting life and socio-political happenings in India w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manohar Rai Sardesai
Dr. Manohar Rai Sardesai (18 January 1925 – 22 June 2006) was a Konkani poet, writer and French translator from Goa, India. He received his ''Doctorat ès lettres françaises'' for his thesis "L'image de l'Inde en France" from the University of Sorbonne. He has been credited for an upsurge of modern Konkani poetry. Sardesai died in 2006. Early life Manohar Rai Sardesai was born on 18 January 1925. He passed his matriculation examination in 1942 from the Bhatikar Model High School in Margao. He obtained a First Class First in Bachelor of Arts from the University of Bombay in 1947. He successfully completed his Master of Arts, also with the First Class First in French and in Marathi from the same university in 1949. He obtained his ''Doctorat ès lettres françaises'' in 1958 from the University of Sorbonne, Paris and taught French in Bombay at the University of Bombay and the University of Goa. He was the son of the eminent short story writer Lakshmanrao Sardesai. Being su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coimbra
Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Braga, it is the largest city of the Coimbra (district), district of Coimbra and the Centro Region, Portugal, Centro Region. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and extending into an area of . Among the many archaeological structures dating back to the Roman Empire, Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, are its well-preserved aqueduct (watercourse), aqueduct and cryptoporticus. Similarly, buildings from the period when Coimbra was the capital of Portugal (from 1131 to 1255) still remain. During the late Middle Ages, with its decline as the political centre of the Kingdom of Portugal, Coimbra began to evolve into a major cultural centre. This was in large part helped by the establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajan And Prema
Rajan and Prema is a traditional Konkani duet. The music and lyrics for this song were written by Antoninho de Souza. This is a song sung by two lovers, Rajan and Prema. Prema is upset to know that Rajan must travel to Bombay for a job. Rajan convinces Prema that he is committed to her and proposes marriage to her. The song is called ''Rajan ani Prema'' in Konkani. The most well-known version of this song is the one sung by Remo Fernandes and Alisha Chinai for the 1985 album Old Goan Gold ''Old Goan Gold'' is a music album by Remo Fernandes and released in 1985. It consists of songs in Konkani and Portuguese. Alisha Chinai has also performed in the album. The album, which was released on Remo's own record label, Goana Records, co .... Goan music {{song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuxttoba
Kuxttoba was a Goan who rebelled against the Portuguese rule. He was a member of the Salekar branch of the Rane family.Kamat, Pratima. 1999: 183. Information about his birth, the reason and the course of his rebellion and the manner of his end are vague. He did rebel as an individual against the rule of the Portuguese in Goa but he presented no concept for an independent Goa. Neither did the Ranes do so when they took to arms against the Portuguese Government in Goa, nor the Sipais (Sepoys) when they mutinied. Kuxttoba was shot dead on 13 June 1871. The official version is that Constâncio de Rosário e Miranda of the 4th Division ambushed and killed him. The popular version is that he was betrayed by his mistress Bulem in exchange for a bribe. There is a deknni of the same name dated around 1869 in which he is called “heir to India and terror of Goa” (''Miraxi Indiecho, Terror Goencho''). The most common version of this song was recorded by Remo Fernandes Luís Remo de Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulpod
Dulpod is a Goan dance song with quick rhythm and themes from everyday Goan life. The plural of ''dulpod'' in Konkani is ''dulpodam''. The dulpod is a folk song, anonymous, freely improvised, and sometimes lacking in thematic unity. The tunes of the dulpod are usually in the six-eight measure, though the two-fourths are not uncommon. The dulpod is usually sung in sequence with a mando. ''Farar-far zatai ranantu'' is one of the best known , a masterpiece of its genre. The composer sings: “The white soldiers are shooting at the Rane. The Rane are shooting at the white soldiers.” Of late, the dulpod ''Ya, ya, maya ya'' is often sung at the end of a sequence of and . Some other are: Other famous are: * * * * * * * * * See also * Deknni Deknni (also spelled dekni, dekṇi, dekhṇi) is a semi classical Goan dance form. The plural of dekṇi in Konkani remains the same. Overview One of the earliest which may be dated around 1869 is '' Kuxttoba'' in which he is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portastudio
The TASCAM Portastudio was the first four-track recorder based on a standard compact audio cassette tape. The term ''portastudio'' is exclusive to TASCAM, though it is generally used to describe all self-contained cassette-based multitrack recorders dedicated to music production. The Portastudio, and particularly its first iteration, the Teac 144, is credited with launching the home-recording wave, which allowed musicians to cheaply record and produce music at home, and is cited as one of the most significant innovations in music production technology. The Teac 144 Portastudio made its debut in 1979, at the annual meeting of the Audio Engineering Society. It was followed by several other models by TASCAM, and eventually by several other manufacturers. For the first time it enabled musicians to affordably record several instrumental and vocal parts on different tracks of the built-in four-track cassette recorder individually and later blend all the parts together, while transfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsoons
A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seasonally changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase. The term is also sometimes used to describe locally heavy but short-term rains. The major monsoon systems of the world consist of the West African, Asia–Australian, the North American, and South American monsoons. The term was first used in English in British India and neighboring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area. Etymology The etymology of the word monsoon is not wholly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konkani Language Agitation
The Konkani language agitations were a series of protests and demonstrations in India, concerning the uncertain future and the Languages with official status in India, official status of the Konkani language. They were held by Goans in the then union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu governed at the time by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. The protests involved citizen journalism, student activism and Political demonstration, political demonstrations. History Pre-Portuguese Goa Historically, Konkani was neither the official nor the administrative language of the pre-Portuguese rulers. Under the Kadambas (c. 960 – 1310), the court language was Kannada. When under Muslim rule (1312 - 1370 and 1469 - 1510), the official and cultural language was Persian language, Persian. Various stones in the Archaeological Museum and Portrait Gallery from the period are inscribed in Kannada and Persian. During the period in between the two periods of Muslim rule, the Vijayanagara Empire, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siolim
Siolim () is a village in Bardez taluka, and a census town on the central west coast of India, in the North Goa district of Goa. The 2001 population was 10,311, and 10,936 in 2011. Siolim is also the name of a constituency in the Goa assembly, which includes Assagao, Anjuna and Oxel, in addition to Siolim. A person from Siolim is known as a ''Siolcar'' or even as ''Shivalkar'' (). Location Siolim is situated about 7 km (4.3 mi) from Mapusa. It is located around the Chapora River. There is a bridge over River Chapora, in place of the prior ferry. To Siolim's north lies the quiet village of Oxel; green hillocks hedge it towards Assagao in the south and the east. Camurlim to lies to its east, and in the west flows the Chapora River, Chapora river with Morjim and its pine-wooded beach on the northern bank in Pernem. Subdivisions Siolim has several different types of subdivisions, which are independent of one another. They include: ''Vadde'' There are nine ''vadde' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trikaal
Trikal (Past, Present and Future) is a 1985 Indian movie written and directed by Shyam Benegal, set in Goa during the twilight of Portuguese rule, It marked the return of Leela Naidu in her first film appearance since 1969. The film was selected for the Indian Panorama at Filmotsav 1986, and for the Indian Film Retrospective, Lisbon 1986. It was later invited to the London Film Festival 1986. Set in the Portuguese Goa in 1961 shortly before the colony's liberation by the Indian army and shown in the form of flashbacks, Anna Souza-Suarez (Sushma Prakash) is unwillingly engaged to a young man named Erasmo (Lucky Ali) when her grandfather Ernesto suddenly dies. The engagement is put on hold indefinitely as Anna's grief stricken grandmother, Dona Maria (Leela Naidu), the matriarch of the family attempts to hold seances to contact Ernesto with the help of her maid Milagrinia (Neena Gupta), acting as a medium. However, the seances bring forth the apparitions of various people the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received several accolades, including eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award. In 2005, he was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 1976, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honour of the country, and in 1991, he was awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour for his contributions in the field of arts. Benegal was born in Hyderabad to Sridhar B. Benegal who was prominent in the field of photography. Starting his career as a copywriter, he made his first Documentary film in Gujarati, ''Gher Betha Ganga'' (Ganges at the Doorstep) in 1962. Benegal's first four feature films '' Ankur'' (1973), '' Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
