To celebrate the release of 100 Years, we are launching the new album at George Lane, Melbourne, Thursday 24th October from 9pm with special guests JP Shilo & TJ Howden’s Hungry Ghosts. CD and LP of 100 Years will be available at the show. Book tickets here:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1225191
(Selling fast!)
The duo will also perform at the Taproom, Castlemaine on Friday, October 25th
Check out the new video for the title track!
100 Years, a film by Miguel Rios
100 Years LP / CD release on Gusstaff Records, October 11, 2024:
https://sklep.gusstaff.com/hugo-race-michelangelo-russo-100-years-cd.html
100 Years on Bandcamp:
https://hugoracemichelangelorusso.bandcamp.com/album/100-years
Hugo Race Music Online Store — Hugo Race
http://www.hugoracemusic.com/rough-velvet-records
100 Years digital album thru Helixed/MGM:
Non-album single Japanese Car / Poison Apples:
https://ffm.to/japanesecars-poisonapples
100 Years Tour EU 2024
07.11 Vienna – Rote Bar, Volkstheater
10.11 Sofia – Mixtape 5
11.11 Sofia – Secret show
14.11 Sumperk (CZ) – Blues Alive
15.11 Katowice – Biblioteka Slaska
16.11 Poznań – SARP
17.11 Warszawa – Chmury
18.11 Zielona Góra – BWA
20.11 Berlin – Private concert
21.11 Berlin – Private concert
23.11 Zurich – El Lokal
24.11 St Gallen – Grabenhalle
28.11 Belgrade – KC Grad
01.12 Zagreb – Vintage Industrial Bar
06.12 Napoli – Mamamu
07.12 Polistena – Teatro LSS
08.12 Reggio Calabria – tba
10.12 Milano – tba
11.12 Torino – tba
13.12 Firenze – Il Progresso
More shows to be announced!!
Stefano Solventi in Sentireascoltare reviews 100 Years
https://www.sentireascoltare.com/album/hugo-race-e-michelangelo-russo-100-years
Hugo Race’s new work is a return to the scene of a successful “crime”, the one committed in 2017 with John Lee Hooker’s World Today, an album that revisited the repertoire of the great Delta bluesman in a synthetic way with the complicity of the multi-instrumentalist Michelangelo Russo (formerly Race’s partner in True Spirit). The pair reunited for two days, November 1 and 2, 2023, with the aim of reactivating that same modus operandi, this time however with the aim of giving life to original compositions. Nine tracks were released, seven of which make up the 100 Years present here.
The blues obviously constitutes calligraphy, structure and code of these intense but intrinsically elusive compositions, with an appearance that is all the more burnt and sclerotic the more they appear to be clinging to a strong, full-bodied emotional pivot. The rhythmically more defined ones (Help Me Somebody, the title track) push the twelve measures into an almost android loop, on which guitars and electronics construct scenarios between industrial and ambient, all in the name of a strange, creeping disarmament. Others (the palpitating Lost Children, the mysterious War Outside My Window) advance in an insidious rarefaction, still bearing the stigmata of the “devil’s music”, as if they wanted to collect its residual imprint, an enervated and spectral legacy still capable of constituting a significant counterpoint to the present.
The pinnacle of the setlist is however Eternal City, the talkin’ with a hypnotic and unnerving gloom that proceeds (for over eight minutes) in a livid and feverish atmosphere, between cardiac pulsations, disembodied drones and sinister synth vibrations, while at the side an obstinate guitar scratches the belly of restlessness: it is a slow horizontal precipice, riding the atavistic seriality of the blues, its fossil energy, its spell living on despite everything.
