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Artist: Brazilian GirlsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Verve
Product features:
- BRAZILIAN GIRLS BRAZILIAN GIRLS
- Homme
- Don't Stop
- Lazy Lover
- Sirenes de la Fete
- Corner Store
- Long
- Pussy
- Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Thoughts Are Free)
- All We Have
- Dance till the Morning Sun
- Me Gustas Cuando Callas
- Ships in the Night
Free Music Notes for Brazilian Girls
Free Music Review: Experimental Jet-Set (Five Stars) Whatever-You-Call-It Music
Hit: 5 Stars
One can make the case that Brazilian Girls are too clever for their own good. Bands that are blessed with sexual persona, razor sharp wit, and intellect are often dismissed by the major music labels as too quirky or too scary to market. For over a year now, Brazilian Girls have been playing their stylish brand of experimental, jet-set, euro pop, world fusion, whatever-you-call-it music at the Nublu club in East Village, NYC.
Everyone inevitably falls under the spell of the vocalist, a mysterious European expatriate, Sabina Sciubba. Sabina commands the stage in a variety of outfits that appear to have been aquired from the costume department of a Zalman King production. The black lace eye mask and fishnets worked for me. She is a femme fatale in the Parisian tradition. As Raymond Chanler put it,"She's the kind of woman that would make the pope kick a hole in the stained glass window."
Sabina's theatrical retro-cabaret performance is enhanced by the muscular groove of Brazilian Girls (who are actually men). Their improvised jams pulsate with rythyms and frenetic percussion that can fill a dance floor with or without Sabina. The music of the band explores samba, reggae, funk, French cafe musette, bossa nova, and just about any other sub-category of music beneath the umbrella of world fusion. Brazilian Girls integrate elements of both hip-hop and dub techniques to this strange array of music. The band even has ties to John Zorn and many of the downtown avant-garde musicians and performance artists who play the Bowery Ballroom, Knitting Factory and CB's Gallery and Lounge circuit. Brazilian Girls are so expansive and pluralistic in their musical approach, it is daunting to even describe their music to anyone, much less market it to a specific demographic group.
The opening song, "Home" sounds a late Sixties song from the catalog of French pop stars, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsboro. Birkin and Gainsboro's playful musical excursions were wrought with innuendo, double entendres, implicit and often explicit sexual imagery. In 1970, Jane Birkin was demonized by the protectors of our morality by either faking, or actually having multiple orgasms on the song "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus"....only Ms. Birkin knows for sure. Like Birkin, Sabina can be sexually provactive to the point actually raising the body temperature and steaming the eyeglasses of the modern day Puritans who label her lyrics as purient. She can strike terror in the hearts of those men fear her unfettered feline sexuality. The worst enemy of the a bible thumping, anti-sexuality police state is the pleaure of orgasm.
Sabina's provocative lyrics on "Pussy", a one-drop reggae song that praises of the aphrodisiac qualities of ganja is a gleeful tweak at the those same gaurdians of morality."Don't Stop" sounds like a sexually charged version of groove laid down by sunny trip-hop of the London based band, Saint Etienne. The swaying samba of "Lazy Lover" and "Sirè Nes de la Fête" invite comparisons to Astrid Gilberto but Sabina subverts each song by adding brusque spoken commentary in German and French, respectively. "Corner Store" transforms a lilting reggae riddim with a dark lyric straight out of Bertolt Brecht/KurtWeill opera. Sabina's obsessive, sensual and world weary lyrics are a subtle reframing of many themes that preoccupied Bertolt Brecht. Like the best Brecht/Weill songs, the Brazilian Girls' music leaves the listener with a profound sense of disorientation. Sabina's dark and edgy existentialism is a jarring counterpoint to the melodic lilt of the reggae and sonorous beat of the Brazilian puita friction drums.
The closing tune "Ships In the Night" opens with the eerie sound of a solitary whistler. The theme of "Ships in the Night" embodies the French attitude of "C'est la Vie"; the idea that life seldom turns out the way we expected. "Ships In the Night" is a parable of "C'est la Vie"...Two lovers agree to end the illusion of love over a drink at last call...Closing time is often the darkest hour of the night for disenchanted lovers. The hour of "C'est la Vie", finality, closure and sad farewells. We can only hope that the abundantly talented Brazilian Girls don't become an object lesson in the meaning "C'est la Vie." Let's hope the Brazilian Girls' ship in the night finds their audience and a safe harbor to launch their promising musical career.
Brazilian Girls Poster
BRAZILIAN GIRLS BRAZILIAN GIRLS"Brazilian Girls" is a name designed to steer you to the "wrong" sites in a Web search, and the not-so-thinly-veiled innuendo (one chorus is "Pussy pussy pussy marijuana") doesn't help either. But the music the Brazilian Girls make is more seductive than salacious. And except for one member, they aren't girls. The one who is, Italian-born Sabina Sciubba, is a former jazz singer who has the hipper-than-thou chanteuse thing going: a cigarette dangling from her lips, a beret cocked sideways on her head, black-stockinged legs crossed suggestively... at least she sure sounds that way. Sciubba sits astride basslines that insinuate themselves like a sideways glance in a smoky bar, as a sensual mix of live drumming and gritty trip-hop lounge grooves skew to the side of late-night alcohol-clouded vision. The English, French, Spanish, and German-language lyrics and Weill/Brecht-meets-Baja Marimba Band horns only add to the delirious dislocation. With a sophisticated electronic palette, Brazilian Girls exude that hip retro-future sound that propelled Deee-Lite back in 1990. Hopefully they won't also be one-hit wonders. --John Diliberto
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