Aline Frazão - Lugar Vazio (Empty Space)

Check out Aline Frazão on iTunes - It was a sweaty Saturday night in February as soft-spoken, Angolan singer/songwriter Aline Frazão was nervously preparing to take the stage in Stone Town’s Old Fort at the Sauti za Busara music festival in Zanzibar. Having played at sunset the evening before, Frazão’s second performance came with a set of new nerves, fair, considering she’d have to follow an energetic Dar es Salaam-based jazzy afro-fusion act — featuring not only a full band, but a few dynamic dancers as well — with nothing more than her own vocal chords and an acoustic guitar. “It usually doesn’t work,” she said.“A festival audience gets used to this growing energy, so I was very conscious that I had to conquer people with these quiet and mellow sounds — sounds that aren’t necessarily what the crowd wants to be listening to during a festival of African music.” Frazão is aware that her sound is different. “It