The most renown and the firebrand political singer of the current era of Konkani Stage Francis de Tuem recently released his 13th Konkani Album in the form of Audio CD consisting of 13 powerful songs all composed by Francis de Tuem only and rendered besides by him, also by Lawry Travasso, Marcus Vaz, Xavier Gomes and comedian Richard. Musical score was beautifully provided by Joaquim D’souza and his troupe.
It is very difficult to say which is the best song among the 13 since all the songs are equally best. But all these songs especially the political ones are composed with thorough research. To compose such songs the composer needs to have full knowledge of the subject and that Francis de Tuem is having such a powerful knowledge was proved by the way he composed these songs.
The title song “GST” is such that it makes mockery of Modi for fooling the people of the country by sucking the blood of the poor by introducing the GST and also introducing Demoneytisation.
In the second song “Facebook and Whats app” Francis the Tuem laments the misuse of social media as it was informed thru this that Remo Fernandes died when this was not true. He said this venue should not be used for mischief.
The third song very beautifully and with serenity rendered by Francis de Tuem describing the life of Padr Agnel while the next song Modko a trio by Francis de Tuem-Lawry Travasso –Comedian Richard is worth admiring.
The next song on killing of Gauri Lankesh the renowned journalist in Bangalore was worth listening and worth admiring too. In this song Francis de Tuem describes how the fanatics are trying to silence the free voice. In the next song “ Pordesantle Goenkar” Francis de Tuem raises the issue of giving the facility of dual citizenship to these Goans while indicating so many other countries are giving this facility to their citizens. In the next solo “Khuris” the singer Francis de Tuem raises the issue of Cross desecrating done recently and how the authorities made an scapegoat of an innocent person. The “Beef” is the other song which highlight the dadagiri of BJP of controlling the eating habbits of the minorities. Ram Rahim is another powerful song which gives full ugly account of the Head of the Ashram and how he was involved in raping the virgin girls under his command, in the name of his religious belief.
The next song “Devosponn” by Xavier Gomes describes the ill effect of the transparent dress used by our ladies in the religious places just as the late Jacinto Vaz indicated in his solo “Nylonache Lugot”. “Hindu Rashtra” is another powerful song where the singer showed his condemnation against those fundamentalists who showed open discriminations on Christians. The singer powerfully said that Chritians are also patriotic people and how some of them have done a great job in the service of the nation. “Kalakaranche Sacrifice” in this trio Xaier-Marcus – Francis de Tuem describes how much sacrifices the Tiatists are doing in the promotion of this art. Some of them have even acted in the Tiaros when their own people were declared dead and their dead bodies were lying in the Coffin at their residences. This is a very interesting and informative song.
The next solo “Abghat” by Lawry Travasso describes the pathetic story of the picnickers who lost their precious lives while they were involved in fun and frolic during the Picnic. And the last song rendered by Francis de Tuem “Fotting” describes Parricar as aliar.
According to me this is the best Audio CD of recent time and as such no Goan should miss it. Congratulations to Francis de Tuem and his colleagues and Musicians to too.
A.Veronica Fernandes.