Fandóziando

Presentation of the CD and DVD "Fandóziando - Fados, Mandós e Fantasias", with executive and artistic production by Ivan Dias, edited by the label Museu do Fado Discos.

An excerpt from the documentary "Azulejos de Goa", directed by Ivan Dias, will be screened, followed by a short performance by Manuel Rocha.

Fado reveals another of its countless mysteries in Goa. In the territory of ancient Portuguese India, a genre emerged that sought to assimilate the Portuguese sounds (...). Mandó is something that not even the locals can quite define because it is an 'out of step' waltz that is intrinsically linked to the idea that the people who welcomed our music made of it. (...) Fado, Mandó and other Fantasies join the violin under the cloak of the exoticism of Old Portuguese India in Goa. A Goa that goes from Damão to Diu, from Cochin to Bombay and from Calicut to Lisbon!

Ivan Dias

What the listener has in his hands is not fado, nor is it mandó. It is something in between. And this is something that Portuguese and Goans live well with. The Portuguese because they have a long tradition of opening up to the world. As Fernando Pessoa stated, the great mark of our culture is universalism. The more universal the fado, the more it will be part of our identity. And the Goans because they achieved a remarkable synthesis between Portuguese heritage and Indian culture, inventing something that is neither Portuguese nor Indian, but entirely unique. Both fado and mandó are musical expressions that emerged in the midst of an intense and slow fermentation characterized by the confluence and exchange of cultures. The sounds that took shape in Lisbon and Goa in the 19th century are the result of cultural interactions that were not one-way. This was, therefore, an inevitable encounter, that of fado with mandó and vice versa. (...) Silence, that fandó will be played.

António Costa