Dona Onete's 'Feitiço Caboclo' ("the spell of the Caboclo", "caboclo" being a Brazilian term used to describe people of mixed native and European descent) is a bit of a strange duck in the Mais Um Discos catalogue. The label has specialized in promoting new Brazilian talent and Dona Onete, who's already in her seventies, doesn't really fit in that picture. However, if you know 'Feitiço Cabloco' is this plucky lady's debut effort, then this release suddenly seems a lot more in place. Onete never regarded singing as anything more than a hobby and concentrated on her career as a professor of history in Igarapé-Miri, a village just over a hundred kilometers from Belem in northern Brazil. Her life would, however, get a very different turn when members of Coletivo Radio Cipó heard her singing one day and promptly invited Dona Onete to contribute to their 2008 'Formigando Na Calçada Do Brasil' album. In her music Onete combines lundu and carimbó, creating a style she describes as carimbó chamegado, but 'Feitiço Caboclo' just as well features influences from bumba meu boi, brega and of course samba. Brazilian discovery of the year!