Brazilian Girls

(Terminal 5; 3,000 capacity;$28) Presented by Bowery. Reviewed October 10th, 2008. Band: Sabina Sciubba, Didi Gutman, Aaron Johnston, Betao Aguiar, Kenny Wolleson and the Himalayas. Mellow bacchanalia may sound like a contradiction in terms, but that's precisely the territory that the Brazilian Girls have staked out over the past several years, and never more enticingly than on their recently released Verve Forecast album "New York." Not surprisingly, this homecoming perf concentrated on songs from that disc, which distills the essence of 21st-century Gotham - a polyglot place that's poles apart from the New York of Lou Reed or the Ramones with a surplus of sensual warmth. The quartet, augmented on a few songs by the Himalayas brass band, has always traded on its ability to play a tug of war with electronic sounds (the... [read full story]