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The new album…

Streaming: https://ffm.to/hr100years
CD / LP available from October 11, 2024 thru Gusstaff Records, Poland, from our Online Store and from Bandcamp: https://hugoracemichelangelorusso.bandcamp.com/
“Every new album is an exploration into the unknown but still, 100 Years is not the album that I expected to make. Knowing Michelangelo and I wanted to summon up the sonic wall approach of our Hooker album, I envisioned writing songs based in 3D street reality but the narrative expanded immediately into the fifth dimension. The words coming through were a stream of consciousness about people close to me missing from the now, from the past, from dreams, set in a mythic twilight where all of us are essentially alone, missing those we love in the same way they're missing us. And it felt strange but right. Making this record I felt how music can be a healing force, illuminating our lives with an abstract, intoxicating beauty greater than any individual sorrow. I believe that's the power of music and the reason I still love making records and why, every time I make a new one, I'm surprised at its alien strangeness, as if the words and music were made by somebody else.”

100 Years, the new album with Michelangelo is imminent, we’re both electrified for its release but first… the new single!

Songs written in the goldfields on a down home steel string guitar. The themes of the 100 Years album are different, weightier, more abstract. Poison Apples and Japanese Car have a strange kind of levity that doesn’t seem to fit on 100 Years and so in the studio both songs were orphaned… Then the boss of Gusstaff Records asked me for a single with bonus tracks that could be a 7” vinyl single with the album release. Michelangelo and I went into the studio with our long time road manager Dugald Jayes at his Melbourne studio and started cooking up the apples…
Listen & Download:
https://ffm.to/japanesecars-poisonapples

Announcing the release of the
new album “100 Years” on Gusstaff Records LP/CD, October 11th 2024
(Digital pre-order thru Helixed from August 30 2024)

100 Years is the new album by Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo, fusing blues, ambient and electronica, inspired and unclassifiable.
In 2017, the duo released John Lee Hooker's World Today (Glitterhouse/Gusstaff Records), a tribute to the blues legend’s delta legacy reinvented in a swirling mix of analog grit and deep trance pulses.
Listen: https://mgm.lnk.to/JLHWT
Recorded in a two day live studio session, 100 Years focuses the duo's sonic alchemy on Race’s evocative songwriting. Electric harmonica, echoing guitars, smoky vocals and primal beats in a hypnotic wall of sound suspended in time and space celebrating endurance and redemption, hand-made from ancient roots.
“Tradition does not mean passing the ashes, but the fire.”
Australian Tour Dates 2024
Sept. 21 Beechworth - Tanswells Commercial Hotel
Oct. 12 Bendigo - Trash Cult
Oct. 24 Melbourne - George Lane Album Launch - special guests JP Shilo & TJ Howden’s Hungry Ghosts
Tickets:https://www.trybooking.com/events/1225191/sessions/4621311/sections
Oct. 25 Castlemaine - The Tap Room

Press…

Rock’n’Roll Monuments, Greece: “Race and Russo's pioneering electronic atmospheres give the historical Blues something you never imagined possible.”
Rolling Stone, Germany: 'Dark Eros and transcendental blues…'
Musikreviews.de, Germany: "A psychedelic ghost blues of a profound sort, a mature, sensitive interpretation of the music and lyrics of John Lee Hooker. (Race and Russo) have blown us away in slow motion, economically instrumented and with painfully beautiful intensity. “
Q, London: "A darkly singular experience then, and one of the best records (Race) has ever made..."
The Music, Australia: "A collection of bluesy, brooding songs from a talented singer-songwriter with three decades of musicianship under his belt."
Eclipsed, Germany: "Hypnotic rhythms and haunting guitars, this album tingles under your skin..."
Focus Kultur, Germany: "No one else makes music like this, and that in itself is an achievement..."
Rock and Folk, Paris: 'This traveler without borders advances through a menacing atmosphere of no-wave electro-acoustics. Here is the spirit, and he does not forget the body and the soul ... '
Tom Tom Rock, Italy: “An almost epic attack, worthy of the soundtrack of an apocalyptic post-nuclear catastrophe film… a talking blues of the third millennium, filtered by years of psychedelia and industrial music - and the Berlin years of Hugo Race can certainly be felt - hypnotic and dark, but precisely for this reason enveloping and fascinating. A record in which the music of the legendary bluesman is completely transfigured, without, however, the fidelity to his "spirit" and his "message" being questioned in the slightest. In short, JLH is alive and fighting with us, if we find the strength to follow him.”

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