Brazilian Girls

Guestpost! Jan-Willem on Sabina Sciubba of Brazilian Girls:

Sabina Sciubba of Brazilian Girls is a cosmopolitan Italian singer whose vagaries brought her to New York. During sessions at the Nu Blue club in Manhattan she hit it off with three male musicians and formed a band. Their music is a laid-back mix of jazz grooves, lounge, touches of tango and modern, tongue-in-cheek pop. Sciubba writes most of the lyrics in English, German, Spanish, Italian and French, while Argentine keyboardist Didi Gutman, who also wrote for Bebel Gilberto, seems to be the band’s main composer.
La Sciubba’s stage persona is slightly affected with her artistic penchant for masks and veils (oddly reminiscent of Chrissie Hyndes’ bangs which suggestively hid her eyes) but she possesses a sultry voice and a nice pair of legs. On a summer night in 2005 I more than enjoyed myself with this mysterious lady and her male companions at the Amsterdam BIM-huis, a jazz venue that they set alight with a hard-hitting set that verged on rock music.
Les sirènes de la fête is something of a wish-fulfilment reverie about things that could happen in Paris, faintly reminiscent of the eighties film Diva. It comes from their self-titled debut cd, which was my summer record for 2005: an entertaining mix, best described as an energetic, witty lounge album. Their second CD, Talk To La Bomb, [from which Le territoire is taken,] is less creative and playful. However, Brazilian Girls and their intriguing frontwoman continue to tour the world (this September they're in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and rock the house wherever they appear.

Brazilian Girls - Sirenes de la Fête
Brazilian Girls - Le Territoire