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Fri 9th The Luminaire presents BRAZILIAN GIRLS + Guests
Doors 7.30 "Taking cues from everything from ‘70’s disco to electro, 'La Bomb’s 12 tracks – sung in English, French, German, and Italian (and on occasion all five on one song) - Brazilian Girls are aggressive, dizzying, and funky." [VH1] Is 'Talk To La Bomb', the second album from New York quartet Brazilian Girls, the soundtrack to the end of the world, or the record that will ignite the planet’s salvation? A polyglot of rhythms, sounds, and languages, their sophomore set throbs with the energy of a teeming mob. Those crowds might be the bejeweled revelers of carnival in Rio or frightened citizens filling Tokyo streets as Godzilla approaches. No matter. 'Talk To La Bomb' distills that surging energy—of all those cultures, those moods—into a single, dynamic album. "The band’s reputation as an energetic live act has set the table for a possible crossover to the mainstream this time around, in the tradition of other left-of-center, genre-bending acts from New York such as Dee-Lite or the Talking Heads.” [LA Times] These 12 new tracks bristle with immediacy, packing a sonic wallop that contrasts vividly with the group’s sinewy, sexy 2005 self-titled debut. “We became a band by playing music in a lounge in New York,” notes keyboard player Didi Gutman, “and that environment influenced the music on the first album.” But as the accolades accrued internationally for Brazilian Girls, those impromptu Sunday night sessions at the intimate Nublu on Avenue C were replaced by extended tours, and the band found itself playing increasingly larger venues. "Where many dance-music bands are satisfied with a beat, two chords and a come-on, Brazilian Girls are far more ambitious. The songs on their second album are more fully formed and thornier than those on their debut. They can veer toward new wave, electropop or French chanson as remained in a 21st-century lounge, where a suave melody could be peppered with a double-time break beat. Dance music runs on rhythm and desire, and Brazilian Girls put twists in both of them." [New York Times] Their music incorporates reggae, electronica, jazz, bossa nova, and you name it, and despite their name, no one in the band is Brazilian. They are three men; Didi Gutman on keyboards and computers, Jesse Murphy on bass, and Aaron Johnston on drums, and one woman, Sabina Sciubba, who sings in no less than five different languages.
This New York-based band of vagabonds makes multicultural, cosmopolitan, intellectual dance music: Ibiza meets punk, dub goes tango, trance gets smart. And with her tongue-in-chic costumes and cool delivery, Sciubba could be the 21st century’s first superstar-style siren—no translation necessary. |
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