Mystics, philosophers, and artists who are innovators, original thinkers, pushers of envelopes, unconcerned with zeitgeist, creators of their own movements, a little off, a tad quirky, unafraid to tap the unconscious well, willing for and honored by their own inner fool, nobody's darling as the poet Alice Walker says, and therefore everyone's hope, the hope of the continual flowering of humanity, the hope of eternal beauty, and the hope of truth, the dark and the light.
Expressionism, Post-Modernism, Surrealism, Abstract Imagery, Romanticism, Neo-Brechtian Angst-ism, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Daniel Lanois, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Nina Simone, Max Roach, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Bukowski, Toni Morrison, Lotus Weinstock, Than Geoff, Alice Walker, Edith Piaf, Elliott Smith, Damien Rice, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Billie Holiday, Marc Chagall, Ella Fitzgerald, Ricki Lee Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Leonardo DaVinci, Pablo Picasso, Mavis and Pops, Carolyn Myss, Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Buddha and Jesus (the original hippies), Romare Bearden, Martin and Malcolm, John Allen, Elvis Schoenberg, Arnold Schoenberg, Lucille Ball, Fredrich Chopin, Bela Bartok, Richard Pryor, Maya Angelou, Andy Kaufman, Phillip Glass, Schubert, Beethoven, John Lennon, Betty Carter, Bertolt Brecht, my original mentor Carl A. Johnson, reluctant mentor / brilliant asshole Rino Mascarino, and my current muses, Fred and Martha. There are also a few transformational souls whom I am blessed to know personally, and with whom I commune, make music, and share ideas, but if I start naming them, others will feel slighted and stop inviting me to dinner. These gods and poets know who they are, and how much I worship them.
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"As Angela Carole Brown begins to sing, she underscores the fact that while most singers simply sing songs, great singers employ their voices as instruments and their songs as vehicles to create tone poems of undeniable emotional impact." - Jason McCloskey, Back Stage West
"Her voice is wonderfully entrancing and ethereal." - Steven Ivory, music and art journalist
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."
Hello Angela Carole Brown Thank you for being a positive force in this world. Music is one of the few things left that still has the power to bring people together from different cultures in harmony. Always feel free to contact me to to discuss what ever you would like.
