Angela is currently featured in Riveting Riffs Magazine. Check out the lead feature here: www.rivetingriffs.com
Recipient of the Heritage Magazine Award in poetry, contemplative singer-songwriter Angela Carole Brown's unique use of the poetic to craft themes of elevated thought, combined with a keen harmonic sensibility, stands her enigmatic music out from the rest.
Below are the recorded results of her original Folk and Jazz projects, as well as her yoga-mindfulness CD.
A Los Angeles native, Angela Carole Brown has been a veteran of the L.A. music scene for two decades as a vocalist, recording artist, and songwriter. She has recorded voice-overs, movie cues, jingles, and CDs for herself and other artists, her most recent being Josh Groban's hit single You Raise Me Up for Warner Bros. Records; and for South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. In 1996, she created the role of larger-than-life vixen The Fabulous Miss Thing for the exquisitely radical, award-winning Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre Surréal, a wild, genre-bending orchestral show. Her seven-year involvement with the twenty-seven piece orchestra included work as performer, contributing writer, and art director. And last summer she played the venerated Playboy Jazz Festival, as a featured artist, inside Pasadena's legendary Rose Bowl Stadium.
Angela has released two very different projects of original music (above) on her own Rue de la Harpe Records label.
RESTING ON THE ROCK, and the newly released MUSIC FOR THE WEEPING WOMAN are her ambient post-modern folk experimentations, utilizing instruments (both electric and acoustic) from around the world and taking inspiration from the folk vocabulary of different cultures, as well as from America's roots and blues movement, and, specifically with WEEPING WOMAN, taking inspiration from Picasso's famed series. A contemplative music that features her group, The Global Folk, RESTING ON THE ROCK held for nine weeks at Number 5 on American Idol Underground.
And with her acclaimed jazz ensemble, The Slow Club Quartet (who have been featured performers at the legendary Playboy Jazz Festival), she has released THE SLOW CLUB, a music that has tapped the more buoyant and carefree side of Angela, and which was a 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Award nominee; and the newly released EXPRESSIONISM, a collection of all her favorite songs from other artists, as well as a recent Hollywood Music Award nominee. Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, and Elliott Smith, to name a few, have been given her ensemble's own expressionistic stamp.
She is also a published novelist, who two years ago brought us her debut literary effort, TRADING FOURS, which released on Infinity Publishing, and about which she was interviewed on KUCI's BlackListed with TR Black, KPFK's Arts in Review with Julio Martinez, and given honorable mention in Music Connection Magazine, and by the National League of Women, as an example of women in fiction. It follows the story of four Los Angeles musicians whose lives collide in a single day, and has already been called "A Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for musicians."
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...and Angela's other MySpace pages:
Music for the Weeping Woman
Expressionism
Mindfulness Healing
Angela with Friends and Colleagues
The Double CD Release Event at the Brand Library, November 2008
Angela's Original Art