The vibrant splendor of Aline Frazà£o
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- 23 Aug 2022
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Angolan artist Aline Frazão needed little time to get in tune with the audience at the Matriz stage, within the framework of Festival MED in Loulé, and the last day of her tour. Aline knows Portugal, where she studied and lived.
The bass gave the first chords, and Frazão continued with additional ones on the electric guitar at the beginning of “Fumo”. She followed up with other songs such as “Baúka” and “Batuku”, which together with “Fumo” were included in her album titled “Uma Canción Angolana”, released in March 2022.
With this trio of songs, the relationship between artist and audience began; complicity took place. And Aline even identified familiar faces in the audience. Another complicity, very important, was also developing: that of Aline and her musicians. There was magic in the band that made this interaction with the audience even more feasible.
Aline spoke and interacted with the audience, presenting musical genres anchored in Africa and Brazil, incorporating the flexibility of jazz and traditional music.
Thus came the fourth song “Luanda” and the artist confessed that the Angolan capital is, without a doubt, a place of many contradictions. “I lived ten years outside of Angola, then I came back. And I was living there four years ago when I made this album”, Aline told us in a brief interview in the press area of ​​the festival. Read More...
