Rosinha de Valenca - Cheiro de Mato (1976)

Hello, good evening! Let's start a new week with a very important artist that has not been released at Loronix since April 21, 2007, where I had the chance to show Rosinha de Valenca – Ao Vivo (1966), a fantastic collaboration sponsored by Caetano Rodrigues, a extremely hard to find album awaited by several friends. Rosinha de Valenca is a gifted musician, acknowledged by renowned people such like Baden Powell, Aloysio de Oliveira, Sergio Mendes, among others. She died recently, exactly four years ago in June 10, 2004. I would like to say thank you to Jorge Mello for making this album available to our community. Let’s see.

This is Rosinha de Valenca – Cheiro de Mato (1976), for Odeon, featuring Rosinha de Valenca playing and singing a repertoire made mostly by her own compositions. It is important to say that Elifas Andreatto is responsible for creating the covers and inserts, truly awesome, especially the back cover, which is particularly beautiful. My pick for Loronix Preview Center is track 05 – Pedacinhos do Ceu (Waldyr Azevedo / Miguel Lima), featuring the cavaquinho of Mane do Cavaco, my personal friend who lives near my place. Mane do Cavaco is a great musician; he is always in action every Saturday playing choro with his group on a restaurant just behind my building. Cheiro de Mato brings a constellation of Brazilian musicians, as detailed on Personnel listing and inside the music files. Tracks include:

Personnel

Rosinha de Valenca
(violao, voice)
Perinho Albuquerque
(arrangements, violao)
Jamil Joanes
(bass)
Papao
(drums)
Chico Batera
(percussion)
Sueli Costa e Irmas De
(choir)
Sivuca
(accordion, electric piano)
Miucha
(voice at Cabocla Jurema / Xango)
Jorge Olmar
(violao)
Canelinha, Geraldo Bango, Carlinhos do Pandeiro
(tumbadoras)
Raul Mascarenhas, Copinha, Mauro Senise, Cacau
(flute)
Joao Donato
(piano)
Luizao
(bass)
Celia Vaz
(arrangements)
Chiquinho Braga
(violao, arrangements)
Francis Hime
(arrangements)

Track List

01 - Os Grilos sao Astros (Rosinha de Valenca)
02 - Meus Zelos (Rosinha de Valenca)
03 - Madrinha Lua (Rosinha de Valenca)
04 - Cabocla Jurema-Xango (Rosinha de Valenca adapt & arrangements)
05 - Usina de Prata (Rosinha de Valenca)
06 - Pedacinho do Ceu (Waldir Azevedo / Miguel Lima)
07 - Vila de Santa Tereza (Rosinha de Valenca / Elisa Marina)
08 - Chua, Chua (Pedro de Sa Pereira / Ary Pavao)
09 - Paisagem (Hamilton Costa)
10 - Movimento da Vida (Sueli Costa)