SPIRITUAL THIRST (1993) Rereleased on vinyl by Bang! Records (Spain)

LIVE IN WARSAW and COLLECTED VIDEOS (2007)

The Spirit, Warsaw 2015 by Ewelina Eris Wojcik

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“That in this period albums characterized by words of comfort in the chaos of the moment come out is completely normal. That they are so well characterized, as if they made us all become protagonists in a dystopian film in which, well yes, the protagonist finds a better way to get out of it, is rare. And Hugo Race manages to tell all this, his are ballads for the end of the world, against the end of the world.” Claudia Losini Off Topic

The New True Spirit Album Is Out Now!!!!

International maverick music icon, Hugo Race releases his 15th album with The True Spirit, the band he formed in Berlin as the Wall fell, a thirty-year collaboration culminating in the brand-new double album Star Birth /Star Death. Available in LP and CD on Gusstaff Records (Europe), the digital album will be released on October 16th thru Helixed MGM Australia.

Streaming & Download: https://ffm.to/stardeath https://ffm.to/starbirth

LP/CD: https://sklep.gusstaff.com/

Direct Download: https://hugoracethetruespirit.bandcamp.com/

Recorded during Australia’s 2019 black bushfire summer and mixed as the pandemic hit, Star Birth / Star Death reflects a sense of sudden endings and new beginnings which Race felt witnessing the explosion of a bright star one oceanic night - "when the stars align it all makes sense" - he explains. Hugo writes about the time we are living, about political disasters, our planet, the absence and the presence of spiritual values, broken promises, cracked hearts and the doubt that any of it really matters. Race and the Spirit take aspects of areas previously explored then take a quantum leap into the unknowable to deliver a lush, lyrical love letter of rock, electronica and dramatic orchestration, based in blues, hypnotic repetition and sonic exhilaration.

Multi-instrumentalists Michelangelo Russo and Nico Mansy are a huge part of this atmosphere as is Brett Poliness’s percussion - the entire band and production is incredible from start to finish. Star Birth is 48 minutes of mind expanding, mind blowing, heel tapping tunes, while its sister album Star Death's deep-psyche remixes will send you searching for your own exploding star somewhere in the sky…

'live today like there’s no tomorrow / watchin’ you watchin’ me / we’re the nightmare and the dream / love is the energy / just atoms blowin’ free'

The True Spirit – Hugo Race, Michelangelo Russo, Nico Mansy, Chris Hughes, Bryan Colechin, Brett Poliness.

Star Birth : Star Death - recorded by Andrew ‘Idge’ Hehir at Soundpark, Melbourne. Additional recording by Dugald Jayes. Further recording Los Angeles by Nico Mansy, and by James Masson at Klangton Studio, Berlin. Produced at Helixed studio in Melbourne.

The sleeve image is by Josh Lord.