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genre: jazz
The Slow Club Quartet's
EXPRESSIONISM
(2008)
A Jazz/Rock Reinvention
(Hollywood Music
Award Nominee)
After the release of their all-original first CD, Angela
Carole Brown's The Slow Club, this unique jazz quartet, now known as The
Slow Club Quartet, established a kind of Expressionist Jazz Movement.
Now, with EXPRESSIONISM, their newest release by Rue de la Harpe Records,
and
named for this specific turn in their artistic development,
the SCQ has covered the songs of their favorite songwriters.
But true to a movement known for its "eruption of
irrational and chaotic forces from beneath the surface of a mechanized world,"
The SCQ has forsaken the typical "standards" CD that jazz artists are usually
known for, and instead has created a cross-genre experience, which dips neither
into fusion nor smooth jazz, but something altogether otherly. Jimi
Hendrix, Tom Waits, and Elliott Smith, to name a few, have been given The Slow
Club Quartet's uniquely expressionistic stamp.
The Slow Club Quartet has delivered an impactful smorgasbord of musical
delights, exquisitely exploring the
jazz tradition, and taking up in gamely fashion the concept of a 'new standard',
or a jazz take on
some of the more recent pop and rock material, which looms large."
John Stevenson, EJazzNews
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genre: singer/songwriter folk
Angela Carole Brown & Ken Rosser's MUSIC FOR THE WEEPING WOMAN
(2008)
A Post-Modern Folk Odyssey
This
intimate folk-infused pas de deux was inspired by Picasso's "The Weeping Women," a compelling
series of portraits of women in various depictions of despair. Singer/songwriter
Angela Carole Brown was moved to compose a body of songs that reflected as much,
but more. She extended that concept to include not only states of despair,
but, as well, celebration, yearning, self-examination, joy, and cleansing, all
instigators of that poignant phenomenon, the shedding of tears. Here
she collaborates with guitarist virtuoso Ken Rosser, a musician who experiments
with textures and uses stringed instruments (of which he plays a multitude, from
all over the world) in envelope-pushing ways, just so he can capture a smidgen
of gorgeous pathos.
Simply Beautiful
Londons Kalling
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genre: yoga / new age
Angela Carole Brown and The Global Folk's GLOBAL YOGA
(2007)
A Yoga-Mindfulness class
("Editor's Pick"
from CDBaby in the category of New Age: Energy Healing)
From singer-songwriter Angela
Carole Brown comes the new Yoga-Mindfulness CD. A completely
auditory session that gives you the flexibility to practice yoga anywhere
you can take a boom box, this one-hour program includes relaxation techniques,
Sun Salutations, strength asanas, a brief study of the chakra centers,
and Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation. With original music by the
ambient-folk group The Global Folk.
"Global Yoga is transcendental, the words magical, incisive and true. This is a
gorgeous and inspirational CD."
- Lily Knight, The Awareness Center
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genre: jazz fusion
Craig Pilo's JUST PLAY (2007)
A Thrash Jazz Endeavor
(Winner of the Los
Angeles Music Award in the category of Best Jazz Artist)
Craig Pilo's debut jazz CD
with Rue de la Harpe Records,
enhanced and interactive with live
video
footage, has been described as
a "thrash jazz endeavor!" upending jazz-repertoire stalwarts and burning
holes in their "standards" status, as well as peppering the proceedings with a
few Pilo originals. Just Play hearkens back to a kind of Cannonball-Zawinul environment of
space and sound, featuring a Fender Rhodes rhythm section, and a few notable
guests, including:
Mitchel Forman,
Tom Kennedy,
Ed Czach,
David Enos,
Roman Dudok, and more.
"A highly dynamic
jazz fusion atmosphere filled with positive energy.
'Just Play'
showcases the work of an experimented musician whose
bold personality
is evident throughout the album."
Jazz World Quest
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genre: jazz
Angela Carole Brown's THE SLOW CLUB (2005)
Straight-ahead Original Jazz
(2006 Just Plain Folks Music Award
nominee)
A dark and moody
jazz spot on the Rue du Rivoli sends one down a winding staircase for an
experience not to be forgotten. So it is with singer-songwriter Angela Carole
Brown's
long-awaited jazz CD
of the same
name, a collection of compositions that speaks to the dark and moody in each of
us, and which features her straight-ahead ensemble (since knighted The Slow Club
Quartet), Ed Czach,
Jonathan Pintoff,
and Craig Pilo,
a gifted troupe of players whose widely differing musical personalities blend
perfectly to create a unique recipe of sound.
"Angela Carole Brown shows a
remarkable breadth
and depth of artistic vision."
J. Stevenson, EJAZZNEWS, England
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genre: ambient folk
Angela Carole Brown's RESTING ON THE ROCK (2004)
Alterna-Folk featuring The
Global Folk
(Held
at
#5 on American Idol Underground for nine weeks)
A
contemplative canon of original songs, drawing
inspiration from folk music and lore,
singer/songwriter Angela Carole Brown's
ambient Post-Modern folk ensemble, The Global Folk, led by
Ken Rosser,
Ross Wright,
Paul Angers,
and Skins Coulter, performs on
beautiful, exotic and
spiritual instruments from other lands. Their multi-cultural contribution has reshaped a middle-class American
songwriting experience into something quite otherly, making it more than
musical. It becomes shamanic.
"The journeys through darkness
are full of
heart and fearless."
Lily Knight, THE AWARENESS CENTER
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genre: orchestral
The Orchestre Surr้al's AIR SURREAL (1998)
Zappa-esque 26-piece
orchestral experimentation
(2000 L.A. Weekly's "Pick of
the Week")
Rue de la Harpe Records is
proud to announce the acquisition of Allegro Non Troppo Records'
catalogue, beginning with its debut recording by The Orchestre Surr้al, a
26-piece, one-of-a-kind, eclectic, comedic experience that
defies categorization. Conducted by the deranged baton of Elvis
Schoenberg (the musical miscegenation of the king of rock, Elvis
Presley, and the king of early 20th-century dodecaphonic music, Arnold
Schoenberg), Air Surreal combines rock-n-roll classics with the
classical masters, as well as all sorts of world and ethnic music, jazz
improvisation, opera, and underscored spoken monologues, for a thoroughly
theatrical listening. Imagine a collaboration with Jimi Hendrix and
Strauss, Jim Morrison and Debussy....or Elvis and Arnold. This melting pot of musical sounds
creates an exhilarating experience that captures the imagination and
interest of only the most hilariously disturbed.
"Though the arrangements are on the
edge of parody and will bring a smile to the face, they never cross the line
over into mockery. The songs are a tribute to diversity and convey a complimentary cosmic celebration."
TR Black, BLACKEYE
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genre: orchestral
The Orchestre Surr้al's IT'S ALIVE! (2003)
The 2nd from the mad baton
of Maestro Schoenberg
(2003 L.A. Music Award Winner
for "Best Rock Opera")
The Orchestre Surr้al's
second outing is even more of an unholy marrying of musical genres, this
time with a decidedly B-flick horror movie thematic to tempt you along.
Again conducted by the mad baton of Elvis Schoenberg, and
featuring the loopy, death-defying vocals of The Fabulous Miss Thing and
Dangerous Dan O'Callaghan, It's Alive! coaxes with
monstrous renditions of everything from the Beatles to Puccini.
"Elvis Schoenberg fearlessly jumps
boundaries of genre and taste in a single leap. His collages of
this
and that
bring Frank Zappa to mind, but the lampooning here seems more affectionate and
respectful of his audience's love of
pop culture."
Richard S. Ginell, L.A. TIMES
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