Acclaimed singer/songwriter Angela Carole Brown and guitarist virtuoso Ken Rosser have brought us this intimate folk-infused pas de deux, the newest release from Rue de la Harpe Records. MUSIC FOR THE WEEPING WOMAN was inspired by Picasso's "The Weeping Women," a compelling series of portraits of women in various depictions of despair. Angela was moved to compose a body of songs that reflected as much, but more. She extended that concept to include not only expressions of despair, but, as well, celebration, yearning, self-examination, joy, and cleansing, all instigators of that poignant phenomenon, the shedding of tears.
Recipient of the Heritage Magazine Award in poetry, Angela’s unique use of the poetic to craft themes of elevated thought, combined with a keen harmonic sensibility, stands her enigmatic songs out from the rest.
Here she collaborates with guitarist and multi-stringed instrumentalist Ken Rosser, a musician who experiments with textures and uses his 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. He isn't a purist, but the better of it. Ken Rosser is an expandist.
Together they have created the ambient, post-modern folk odyssey, MUSIC FOR THE WEEPING WOMAN.
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