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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
100 YEARS - THE NEW ALBUM BY HUGO RACE & MICHELANGELO RUSSO - RELEASE OCTOBER 14, 2024
100 Years is the new album by Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo, fusing blues, ambient and electronica, inspired and unclassifiable.
Hugo Race, together with multi-instrumentalist Michelangelo Russo released John Lee Hooker's World Today (Glitterhouse/Gusstaff Records) in 2017, a tribute to the blues legend’s delta legacy reinvented in a swirling mix of analog grit and deep trance pulses.
The new album, 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, hand-made from ancient roots. “Tradition does not mean passing the ashes, but the fire.”
100 Years Video: https://youtu.be/2UUdxuBRDvg?si=Xx7uOsjd1hujttFf
100 Years digital album thru Helixed/MGM:
Non-album single Japanese Car / Poison Apples:
https://ffm.to/japanesecars-poisonapples
100 Years. Recorded November 1 & 2, 2023. Recorded by Andrew ‘Idge’ Hehir at Soundpark Studios, Melbourne. Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maesta, Milano. Photography by Meredith O’Shea. Design by Collica & Beck at minusdesign, Berlin. Published by Peermusic.
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.”