Konkan Dance is a Denis Preston production from London's Lansdowne Studios – the nexus for so much that occurred in Indo-jazz fusion. After even a limited amount of research, this “unreleased 1974 album” throws up more questions than it solves or resolves but Amancio D'Silva's son, Stephano D'Silva provides CD booklet notes for this 2015 reissue edition that assist greatly. The album's title derives from Konkani dance, a Goan traditional dance/song form. Often associated originally with mela (festival) or Hindu devotional performance, the form has since been thoroughly appropriated and watered down for touristic purposes. The Goan jazz scene was already bothering Konkani folk forms for tunes at least by the late 1960s – a scene that figures in Ved Mehta's book Portrait of India (1970) – and Ramu Ramanathan's multi-media drama Jazz (2007). Those tunes informed jazzers, including D'Silva, working in the pre-Bollywood, Bombay film industry. Goa's influence on India's hugely overlooked indigenous jazz scene of the day is one of the ‘under-sung’ stories of where jazz rooted. On ‘Konkan Dance’ itself D'Silva taps into Konkani melody with electric guitar, saxophone and piano creating a groove not dissimilar to ‘Freedom Rider’ on Traffic's 1970 album, John Barleycorn Must Die. Conversely, ‘A Street In Bombay’, tabla aside, could be describing a street anywhere. Apparently, progress on Konkan Dance's commercial release had reached artwork stage, yet for unknown reasons it never came out. Its ‘What Maria Sees’ did, however, enter Stephano D'Silva's repertoire; he served it up at Indo-Jazzwise at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club in May 2008.