Hidden Whale: Bio

Photo © Jennifer Esperanza 2010

Santa Fe, New Mexico based trio HIDDEN WHALE is the latest project of husband and wife duo Jim Goulden and Angela Gabriel along with Scott Jarrett on bass. All career musicians and multi-instrumentalists, their collaboration, while crossing genres, maintains a refreshing style that is distinctively Hidden Whale.

While some might describe their music as Indie-Rock, theirs is a compelling combination of many influences, including the rhythms of Afro-Pop & Prog-Rock, the lyrical styles of Hip-Hop, and Classic Rock vocal harmonies. They have been compared to bands as varied as Ben Folds, Steve Miller, Rusted Root and The Who.

The band's original music combines Jim's witty, introspective lyrics & catchy, R&B-style guitar riffs with Angela's enigmatic, funky blend of rock and world rhythms. Add to that Scott's melodic, punchy bass lines, and you've got a sound brimming with honest three-part vocal harmonies, raw emotion, & infectious, memorable grooves.

Jim Goulden - Guitar, Vocals

   An active performer, composer and teacher, Jim Goulden began playing drums at age six. Raised in Los Angeles, he has worked as a percussionist, guitarist, voice-over actor, singer, producer and writer, with appearances on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular, and the Hollywood & Devine show.
    In 1987 Jim graduated from The Dick Grove School of Contemporary Music where he studied composition and percussion. He also studied in West Africa and has performed with members of The National Ballet Du' Senegal.
    He is the music director, composer, producer and arranger, as well as one of the creators, of the dynamic duo The Gluey Brothers, an original performance art-rock group. The Glueys toured extensively throughout the U.S. and were featured in a Playboy Channel original movie, The House of Love.
    Jim lives in Santa Fe where he writes, performs and teaches.

Angela Gabriel - Drums, Vocals

After receiving her Master of Music degree from Texas Tech University in 1995, Angela Gabriel taught percussion at Pittsburg State University in Kansas and Angelo State and Brownwood Universities in Texas. She performed with symphonies in Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, both as principal percussionist and soloist, and was a featured performer at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention.
It was the thriving folk marimba community that brought Angela to New Mexico in 2002, and she is often seen playing with many of the Zimbabwean-influenced marimba and mbira bands in Santa Fe. She has performed with musicians as varied as Zimbabwean legends Stella Chiweshe & Musikewa Chingodza, Tony Bennet, Tish Hinojosa, Kansas, and Bobby McFerrin.
Angela currently plays percussion with the many professional symphonic, chamber & choral groups around Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and is the pianist for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe.