genre: jazz fusion
Craig Pilo's Unsupervised (2011)
Jazz Funk
After a year of partnering with other composers and producing music for the music supervisors of TV, film, and media, drummer Craig Pilo has endeavored to take a moment (or several months) to stay true to where his heart and soul lies. Hence the CD's title, which represents what can be created when not given any perimeters.
Produced by Craig Pilo for Rue de la Harpe.
Featuring The Craig Pilo Trio: Craig Pilo, Ed Czach, and Jim King. And
a host of special guest artists: Mitch Forman, Chris Smith, Rick
Baptist, Bill Esparza, Brian Brigham, and Angela Carole Brown.
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genre: drum & bass
Angela Carole Brown & Craig Pilo's CAUGHT (2011)
A Drum & Bass-Techno-Trance Single
This single by singer/songwriter
Angela Carole Brown and drummer/producer Craig Pilo (longtime collaborators from
their days together with The Slow Club Quartet) takes its inspiration from the
industrial, trance, and drum-&-bass movements that came out of the 1990s. A poet
long before she was a musician and composer, Angela Carole Brown's unique use of
the poetic to craft a theme of elevated thought, stands this track out from the
rest.
Produced by Craig Pilo for Rue de la Harpe.
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genre: orchestral hybrid
The Orchestre Surréal's MANIC VOODOO LADY (2009)
A Tribute to the Music of Hendrix
Award-winning arranger and
composer Elvis Schoenberg, and his Orchestre Surréal, a twenty-five-piece group
of daring, top, Los Angeles studio musicians who fuse classical, jazz, rock, hip
hop, and world music into an hilarious, seductive mélange, stripping away the
barriers of cultural, generational, and artistic prejudice, and promoting the
message of open-mindedness through music.
Manic Voodoo Lady is Elvis Schoenberg's unique and
respectful tribute to the music of Jimi Hendrix, where classic songs such as
Fire are transformed into a Stravinsky-esque ballet suite, Little Wing,
featuring Ken Rosser on the pipa, becomes a visual dance of a Chinese Courtesan,
and Voodoo Child is the lair of a witch doctor with African Rhythms,
aggressive Bella Bartök-esque strings and a choir of haunting voodoo chanting.
Elvis Schoenberg's arrangements are as iconic as the songs themselves. The album
(yes, we here at RDLH still refer to them as albums!) features guitarists Scott
Henderson, Jeff Miley, Jimmy Mahlis, Kurt James and Ken Rosser; and vocalists
Angela Carole Brown, April Fissell, Nick Hernandez, and Jason Paige.
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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.
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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.
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genre: yoga / new age
Angela Carole Brown and The Global Folk's GLOBAL YOGA (2007)
A Yoga-Mindfulness class
(CDBaby "Editor's Pick" for 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.
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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)
