Aline Frazão was born in Angola, but since the release of "Clave Bantu", her first album, she is being touring the more recent work "Movement", that has taken her words and her sweet, quiet voice at various stages all over the world.
Let's talk of “movement” and in what way is far from the previous album?
Aline Frazão: First the "clave bantu" was made with many little means, it was not a big production, the formation was lower, it was a first experience in studio and "movement" is a record with other conditions that allowed me to somehow make a search for musical languages, a mixture of sounds, which is what I am.
It has more of an urban drive or not?
AF: It's a little less wild, "clave bantu" is a more visceral drive. It is works that as the years go by I have more and more affection because it is very screamed and authentic album. There is no limit and are feelings in the rough and in "movement" is a more worked and melancholic album has more fog. I often say that Luanda is my city, which is present in many of my songs is an invisible character, is not the city of euphoria and economic growth, is a lonely Luanda, upon a building terrace, an observer, a subject who observes what is this happening and this look can involve positive feelings or not, and it is often that the opposite happens. It is a grayer album, just yet colorful that has very sound movement and has color by African rhythm, as much as I tell a tragic story you always want to dance. But it is a more coherent record, were songs written in a shorter space of time, I made a compilation of four years writing it, there were many variations, the first were simpler and the last were very complex, as the "southern way "with a compass and a half apocalyptic strain, it's like the first book by a writer who has many things to say in every sentence in which it place all with a great eagerness.
It is curious that you say that, although your first album was done with little means, you had a lot of reputable people who wrote for you, writers. You give much importance to the word? Because it is also been seen in the second album, "movement".
AF: I give all the importance the word. I cannot think of my work on the albums that did so far without the weight of words. Increasingly see myself as a songwriter, because of this connection that I have with writing, with the literature since childhood. I see the word independent of music, so it is one of the riches of musical language is that it is universal, a person that can hear a Vivaldi does not need poetry to feel, but in my case, I see music as a way to communication and I am a person of that area, I like to communicate specific ideas.
This is how you start by writing the lyrics and then offspring melodies?
AF: Yes, 90% of the time I begin with the word. It creates an environment, a pace that I explore in my guitar. I'm not a very virtuous guitarist and then the musical paths pass through the exploration of many things, sometimes, I follow my intuition. The word is the backbone of everything I do.
There are some songs of these two albums that define you as a songwriter?
AF: Yes, the "both", is a very geometric song, is very repetitive. I like that, a little of Chico Buarque, the repetition of verses, or the structure there is a symmetry in this song, an irony, a critical social message of contrast that defines my very concept of justice as long as this inequality, there is an injustice, are key idea of what I think, then works very well. It is a theme that has a strange compass that is not easy to understand the first and think it's one of the songs that define my work.
You're a brain singer?
AF: No, I'm a brain songwriter, a singer no.
You are more emotional on stage?
AF: Yes, on stage I’m nothing cerebral, but it would be terrible to see, I have no technique and know nothing of harmony is pure intuition and body. I actually have the objective of creating a better balance, on stage, I want to put on a show in a narrative form, with feet and head and do more spontaneous compositions, such as "clave bantu", which had very fresh songs.
What is your next step? A new musical work? Since these on tour with the "movement".
AF: I can say yes, I'm writing for a new album.
Be inspired again on your travels?
AF: That I do not know, will be different of this new work, it is natural that it be so. My aim is to explore more intimate territories, musically faithful to my composition. And free myself a little, if you see the my videos, I feel a little guitar hostage, I am very worried about the look, my chords and songs are accompanied by guitar, though not a very virtuous guitarist, the whole band is based on my instrument of choice, I am always a bit divided on stage. So in my next work will empower me as a singer and I may be a car free kit that allows me to move my arms, dance and the voice occupy my whole body. I want to write songs like that, for the first time also I want to sing songs of others, I have no so much need of an authorial stamp, with songs which may have more role and carry all the emotional charge of the songs.
There will be fewer guitars?
AF: No, there will be guitar always; I do not know is whether it will be me to play it. I still see my music associated to lyrics and the repercussions. This is glued to my way of composing; the guitar is always there and then comes the pace lately and already think on the rebound, because it has that connection to land and the rest of the arrangements come later. I also produce "movement", so try to balance the diagram of bass and treble. The effect, the guitar and the voice are the three elements ...
That is part of your DNA as a songwriter?
AF: I think so, I never had said so in this phrase, but this is well.
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