NEW ALBUM RELEASE: HUGO RACE & GIANNI MAROCCOLO - THE VIGIL (April 25, 2025)
THE VIGIL - Hugo Race & Gianni Maroccolo
LP / CD release date: May 16, 2025 on Gusstaff Records. www.gusstaff.com
Digital release: April 25 through Helixed/MGM - https://ffm.to/thevigil
Private Preview: https://s.disco.ac/gntcsqhgxidv
It's 2022. The world lockdown is finally over. Imagine a picturesque lake in Tuscany. Now imagine a floating state of the art studio on that lake with two maverick rock icons creating a wild, alchemical concept album: Hugo Race, frontman of Australian post-punk legends The Wreckery and guitarist for the Bad Seeds and leader of True Spirit and Fatalists, and Gianni 'Marok' Maroccolo, producer of Italian alternative music and film soundtracks since the 1980s Florence darkwave scene with Litfiba, CSI & CCCP. Together, they fuse an existential narrative made up of individual stories in the style of Boccaccio's Decameron with psychedelic soundscapes framed by experimental electronica, rock instrumentation and decades of experience as cutting edge musicians and studio producers to bring you an album that defies categorization - The Vigil…
"We all knew the situation was inauspicious, the planets lined up overhead like a firing squad and this empty silence roaming around our town, cut off from the other mountain towns by an electrical blackout. Without power, there was no way of knowing what was happening anywhere else. Left alone with our thoughts until help came from outside, a group of us gathered around a blazing fire in the abandoned city hall, feeding it with documents and broken furniture. Scientific progress had long told us we were parcels of dumb atoms and that consciousness and the soul were merely human projections. Now science had failed itself..."
THE VIGIL - Hugo Race & Gianni Maroccolo
1 The Vigil
2 Phoenix
3. Soldiers
4. La Pace
5. Pandora
6. Where Does The Night Go
7. Duru Duru
8. Phoenix (Reprise)
Gianni Maroccolo / bass, synth, electronics
Hugo Race / voice, guitars, organ, keys, electronics
Andrea Pelosini / drums
Antonio Aiazzi / piano, Hammond organ
Nicola Baronti / MS20, electronics, percussion
Recorded at Helixed (Melbourne), PFMA (Torre del Lago Puccini),
La Bicocca (Cecina) 2020-2023
Mixed & mastered by Niccolò Mazzantini
Recording engineers – Simone Sandrucci, Nicola Baronti
Music by Race / Maroccolo except 6 by Race / Maroccolo / Aiazzi
Published by Peermusic & Ala Bianca Groups
Photography: Marco Pacini
Artistic production by Hugo Race & Gianni Maroccolo with Nicola Baronti
Produced by Hugo Race & Gianni Maroccolo
The Vigil, Live in Naples, October 2025
