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Music for the Weeping Woman
and Expressionism, Angela's newest releases with her
two projects, are now available!
Vocalist and songwriter
Angela Carole
Brown was the
very first artist on Rue de la Harpe with her recordings Resting
on the Rock and The Slow Club. In 2007 she released Global Yoga, a one-hour yoga-mindfulness CD.
And this year releases the duo CD Music for the Weeping Woman with guitarist Ken
Rosser, and a second
recording with her jazz group The Slow Club Quartet entitled Expressionism,
both releasing on November 9, 2008.
Angela 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, including: Josh Groban's hit single "You Raise Me
Up" on his
Closer
CD for Warner Bros. Records; for
South Park creators Matt Stone and
Trey Parker; and for the independent film
Funny Money,
starring Chevy Chase.
She
is also a writer and an award-winning poet (Heritage Magazine Award),
who last year brought us her debut novel,
TRADING FOURS,
which released on Infinity Publishing, and about
which she has been interviewed on KPFK's
Arts in Review and KUCI's Blacklisted.
Angela has already released
two very different albums of original music on Rue de la Harpe: Resting on the
Rock, a modern folk experimentation, utilizing instruments from
around the world, and which made it to #5 on American Idol Underground; and her
acclaimed jazz recording, The Slow Club, which was nominated for a Just Plain Folks Music Award.
Angela began her career, however, as an
actress, after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
and landing work with various Los Angeles theatre companies, performing
the repertoires of Shakespeare, Williams, Brecht, Shaw, and Puccini, to
name a few.
Her singing career began by joining
various bar bands; and in 1984, won the grand prize in
the first-ever (to become annual) Stardom Pursuit singing contest sponsored by
the old legendary Rose Tattoo Cabaret in Los Angeles.
In 1989, her debut CD,
Angela, produced by David Garfield for Teichiku Records, rose to #2 on Japan’s
pop charts, leading her to be featured on Tokyo's NHK variety television show
Music Dream Collection.
In 1994, she authored,
composed, and starred Off-Broadway in her critically lauded one-woman show, The
Purple Sleep Café, at Primary Stages' 45th Street Theatre in New
York City.
In 1995, she released a CD of
jazz standards, Standard Procedure, on Sand Canyon
Records, with pianist Dana Bronson and bassist Jim DeJulio, longtime
collaborators with her from the Four Seasons Beverly Hills.
In
1996, she created the role of larger-than-life vixen The Fabulous Miss
Thing for
the exquisitely radical
Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre
Surréal,
a wild, genre-bending orchestral show.
Her involvement with the 26-piece orchestra included work as performer,
contributing writer, and art designer.
For seven years, Angela
was "Miss Thing" to select Los Angeles audiences, through the release of
two CDs, Air Surréal, and It's Alive!, for
which she created the artwork that serves as their covers; a
slot on Music Connection's Best Unsigned Acts List, and as L.A. Weekly's
"Music Pick of the Week" in 2000. Her final performance with the
orchestra, in 2003, was their John Anson Ford Amphitheatre debut, a show that
ended up winning the L.A. Music Award for "Best Rock Opera of the
Year."
Today, however, Angela speaks to us
most uniquely through her canon of original songs, and as a woman of
letters.
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