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Where do my ideas from songs come from? Sometimes I dream my lyrics, sometimes they pop in my head, sometimes I pick a random word in the dictionary and write a song around it. What I consider my best songs seem to almost "download" into my head from no where. It always feels "plucked" like ripe fruit from a vine. Sometimes I wonder if the Collective hold these thoughts until someone plucks them and wonder if visual artists often feel the same thing. Nothing is as satisfying as writing a song to me, though I very much love performing, producing, and recording as well.

The song "Holy Place" explores both the positive and negative sides of crone energy. For those unfamiliar with the term, the female aspect of the universe is described as having three faces; Maiden, Mother, and Crone. Each phase has an energy associated with it. The Crone is often called the Wise Women archetype and also has been called "the Dark Mother" because she has the ability to "destroy" so that new things can be born. In exploring this, I have found there are things to honor in this expression of the female, but also a danger in that the one who holds this power must have upmost discernment and compassion, otherwise it can attack the unowned parts (shadow) that it sees in others and feel "righteous" in doing so. Over all, I think our society has forgotten to honor the wisdom of the elders, but particularly the "Wise Woman" archetype. The Wise Woman is one who can truly transform things and sometimes a situation calls for just that energy. Hopefully, women will reclaim this right and use it for the highest good. Many modern works are expressing the forgotten feminine, such as the book "the DaVinci Code".

My song OYA is also a song honoring the Crone aspect of the Goddess. Oya is the African Goddess of the wind and she speaks to me with dust devils of leaves, snow, and one time in the desert via powerful cyclonic display of red dust. I honor her because she has come in my dreams to impart knowledge and protection.

My ultimate goal is to break all the paradigms and pre-existing stereotypes of what women are doing in music--the sound, style, age, look, "edginess" and originality. My highest goal is to shake all that up--so my daughters and other women of their generation will have less boxes of binding expectation to keep them from realizing their potential. Even if I am but a small drop of rain in the ocean in changing this, I feel strongly in offering a sound that while it has some ties to our current times also is unprecedented in originality.

Just recently I have taken a workshop with Jonathon Goldman and experimenting with the concepts of toning and intentionality. This is some of the most powerful and life changing information I have ever come across and truly resonates with me. I am not sure how this will influence future aspects of my music, but I have always been aware of the potential healing around sounding vowels and that intentionality can be transmitted on sound.

To the listener, I can seem serious, silly, irreverent, or reverent. My songs might describe what it feels like to be in love but I also explore darker emotions. I think music and art are the perfect vehicles to explore all Emotions and my personal spiritual path includes a willingness to explore the shadow self so that you can move and transform energy into higher expression.


Welcome to the world of Angie Strange! Strange Things Are Happening Right HERE! Please browse my strange links, and may you enjoy the many tunes here.

All of songs on this site are originals by Angie Strange (with the exeption of co-writing "Riddle Strange" and "Incoming" with Craig Patterson of PME records). Songs from my Cocreation album were recorded and co-produced with PME records, with musicianship from Angie Strange, Gary Dunn, and Craig Patterson. All other songs are demo quality and produced/arranged either with my Roland BR-8 by myself, or in collaboration with my previous recording partner Clay Lambert in his home studio. Clay Lambert plays bass on a few of my older songs and Lisa Schiavonne accompanies with flute as well as some back up vocals in my older songs.

My music has been described as hybrid: "tribal influenced electronica ". Currently, I am working and recording songs for my "Intergalactic Prophylactic" album. I try to write songs that move the soul *and* body. Fans of my CoCreation album (see link to buy album) will notice that the songs I am working on for Intergalactic Prophylactic have less of an electronica influence and are more lyrically oriented. Being a "hybrid" satisfies my desire to fuse futuristic with timeless tribal wisdom for the "whole" soul. It honors our current time in history as well as the ancestors. So far, the appeal has been multi-generational.

Marketing my music would be directed to a "vibe" and not a demographic. That vibe includes all the CoCreative people out there who are waking up to new possibilities. Also, though everything is "sacred", I have a healthy dose of humor and mix in even the dark things to be illuminated. There are many aspects of my music in common with what is currently out there though my style is very original and "paradigm breaking".

My Cocreation album is available via the link contains the two songs now on Art Bell's commemorative CD: "Pesky Solar Flares" and "Run Away". They were also on his great website while still under Keith Rowland. PME records had over 300,000 downloads of these songs. The song "Jaguar" on this album was featured on the syndicated show "No Pigeon Holes" out of Cupertino California. Pesky Solar Flares is about our unprecedented solar activity and what this might mean. I had some airplay in Australia, Spain, and some Internet radio airplay as well from this album.

I have played with the Trance Junkies, Angie Strange and Odd, and Angie Strange and The Holy O's and as a solo performer "Angie Strange". I have played venues in Boulder and Denver including a 3hr benefit for Community Food Share" at the Boulder Band shell 2 years in a row ("Get Off Your Can and Dance"), Prufrocks, Cafe Sole', Tulagies, Habitat for Humanity, The Bolder Boulder, Angie's in Denver, parties, school openings and for Jamestown's recording venue "The Merc", Metaphysical and Belly Dancing Art fairs, and private parties. I also worked on a recording project for a pilot show for Wisdom Network in the restaurant previously called "Book Ends". My songs were featured on Radio Free Koyote show based here in Boulder, Colorado. Currently I am an unsigned and independent artist. I have worked in partnership with PME records and Scorpio Rising Recording on other recording projects.

I am seeking like minded partners to independently play, write, record, perform, and market "Intergalactic Prophylactic". See my "personal page link" provided for more information on obtaining the demo album for interested partners.