Paolo Angeli & Hamid Drake

The Profile

Paolo Angeli is a Sardinian guitarist known for a prepared, modified Sardinian guitar; Hamid Drake is an American drummer and percussionist known for jazz and world-music work. They performed together in Sant'Anna Arresi in 2004 and that evening is documented on the album Uotha.

Paolo Angeli uses a prepared Sardinian guitar (a modified instrument combining acoustic and electric elements). Hamid Drake is noted for Afro-centric rhythms and work in jazz, free improvisation, and world music. The album Uotha documents their live collaboration.

A single DeBaser review recounts a 2004 Sant'Anna Arresi concert where Paolo Angeli's prepared Sardinian guitar met Hamid Drake's percussion. The music is described as experimental, ancestral and borderless. The record Uotha captures that intense, disorienting live encounter.