Paolo Angeli Hamid Drake

Recorded on September 4, 2004 at the Sardinian Festival is an intense performance with many peaks by two masters of folklore and improvised music. The interplay between the Angeli’s sardinian prepared guitar and the Drake’s drumming is a vibrant delight: a soulful meeting of outstanding musicians " Featuring Paolo Angeli on Sardinian prepared guitar & voice and Hamid Drake on drums, percussion & voice. Recorded live at Sardegna e Jazz XIX in Sant’ Anna Arresi in September of 2004. Paolo Angeli plays a few different modified guitars that he designed himself and has his own approach to playing. He has two fine solo discs out on ReR, where he has commissioned works from different downtown players/composers. He played a modified acoustic guitar with a series of sympathetic strings underneath and diagonal to the regular set at a Zorn improv night at The Stone during Don Cherry month and astonished some of us with his unique approach. On ’Uotha’ he plays with Chicago’s best and most in-demand drummer, the one and only Hamid Drake. This is a beautifully recorded duet, with sublime magic surrounding it. Paolo’s tone goes from the pure acoustic sound with many melodic flourishes and dazzling jazz licks to a variety of odd sounds he coaxes from his other strings. This sounds like a match made in heaven, since they so well and often acoustically together. Paolo uses a distortion pedal on area occasion, adding a bit of unexpected insanity to the equation. On"The Many Faces of the Beloved", Hamid plays frame drum as Paolo plays with a bow on his guitar creating a cello-like sound, as Hamid sings in some ethnic language and it is a quite an enchanting piece. I love when Paolo creates these strange ghost-like sounds on his instrument, with Hamid playing some equally eerie sounds to match. This a most phenomenal duo effort that sounds like no-one else. Paolo Angeli has been coming to town more often over the past couple of years, don’t miss a chance to check out this new guitar master." - BLGPHOTOS www.nanniangeli.com ..