SF WEEKLY 6/11/2003 by Silke Tudor Brazzaville, the river-port capital of the Republic of the Congo, was founded in 1883 by Pierre Paul François Savorgnan de Brazza, a Brazilian-born adventurer of Italian nobility who became a French citizen so that he could explore and colonize Africa. The result of a similarly Byzantine array of influences, Brazzaville, the Los Angeles-based nightclub septet, was founded in 1998 by David Brown, a one-time runaway from L.A.'s Koreatown who tramped through India, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Japan, Nepal, and Thailand before becoming Beck Hansen's saxophone player. With bossa nova rhythms lapping softly against a fading accordion, a delicate piano melody wafting through a golden haze of saxophone, and Brown's smooth, unhurried tenor supplying an offhand sort of Parisian cool, Brazzaville is the band you might expect to find at the end of the line in The Night of the Iguana. While the group's peculiar amalgam...