Hugo Race

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

LIVE PERFORMANCES - UPDATE

DIRTMUSIC / TAMIKREST BKO EUROPEAN TOUR 2010

may 13 D - STUTTGART Laboratorium

may 14 D - BERLIN C-Club

may 15 NL - DEN HAAG Walk the Line Festival

may 16 NL – DEVENTER Burgerweeshuis

may 17 B - GHENT Centrale

may 19 UK - LONDON Borderline

may 22 D - BEVERUNGEN OBS Festival

may 23 D - ULM Ulmer Zelt

may 24 SLO – LJUBJANA Druga Godba

may 26 CH – ZURICH El Lokal

may 27 CH – DUDINGEN Bad Bonn Kilbi

may 28 B – DIRKSMUIDE 4AD-Club

may 29 D - CHEMNITZ Kulturfestival Begegnungen

may 30 DK - AARHUS Voxhall

june 1 F - PARIS Centre Barbara Fleury Goutte D'Or

HUGO RACE & TRUE SPIRIT

june 10 UK - LONDON Luminaire

june 12 B - BRUSSELS Les Ateliers Claus

june 19 RO - BUCHAREST Liveland Festival

HUGO RACE SOLO

june 23 I - BOLOGNA Piazza Verdi

june 24 I - PAVIA Jakebikers a Vigevano (PV)

june 25 I - CASTIGLIONE OLONA Sur Le Sofa (VA)

june 26 I - LECCO - Arci Pintupi Verderio Inferiore

DIRTMUSIC / TAMIKREST BKO EUROPEAN TOUR 2010 continued

july 9 PL - CIESZYN Kregi Sztuki Festival

july 10 A - EBENSEE Kino

july 11 A - VIENNA B72

july 13 D - HAMBURG Fabrik

july 14 D - NUREMBERG Katharian Festival

july 15 D - FRANKFURT Brotfabrik

july 16 D - MUNICH Muffethalle, Ampere

july 17 I - FAENZA (RA) Strada Blu Festival - Piazza della Molinella

july 18 I - AZZANO S. PAOLO (BG)

july 19 D - KARLSRUHE Zeltival

HUGO RACE & FATALISTS

july 20 I - TORINO Spazio 211

july 23 I - BARLETTA (Ba) Arci Le Ture

july 24 I - SORRENTO (Na) - Marianello Jazz Cafe

july 25 I - BARI - Bari Jazz Festival

july 27 I - BOLZANO - Vintola

july 31 I - ANGHIARI (Arezzo) - Kilowatt Festival

aug 1 I - SANTARCANGELO - Garrincha

aug 2 I - SAN SALVO - Beat Cafe

aug 4 I - RIMINI - Neon (guest of Sacri Cuori)

aug 6 I - RAVENNA Bocca Baranca

aug 7 I - FROSINONE

DIRTMUSIC / TAMIKREST BKO EUROPEAN TOUR 2010 continued

aug 12 HU - BUDAPEST Sziget Festival

Sunday, November 15, 2009

BETWEEN HEMISPHERES: HUGO RACE INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM, RELEASE APRIL 2, 2010

Hugo Race: Between Hemispheres

(Gusstaff Records, Poland. UK Distribution: Baked Goods)

A trip into the glacial interstice between quantum and digital, these interdimensional meditations traverse the synapse between the left and right sides of the brain, between thought and expression, between two oscillating magnetic poles - between hemispheres.

www.helixed.net www.myspace.com/hugorace
International Press

UNCUT (UK) January 2010

4 stars

Remarkable ambient excursion from ex-Bad Seed.

This is the culmination of a long and strange journey for Race, who started musical life in the Melbourne post-punk scene. This entirely instrumental album is at once pan-global in its influence, using African instruments like the ngoni, while also reflecting the duality of both sides of the brain – hence the punning title. What’s so arresting about Between Hemispheres is its physicality. The ambience reminds of Eno and Harold Budd but elements of distortion suggest a man not afraid to get his shoes dirty. There’s a soiled intensity about this album – both sweeping beauty and true grit.

- David Stubbs

THE WIRE (UK) JANUARY 2010

Hugo Race

Between Hemispheres

It's more than 25 years since Hugo Race was guitarist in the first incarnation of The Bad Seeds, and more than 20 since he left to form post-punk vehicles like The Wreckery and the True Spirit. Time has clearly wrought changes; Between Hemispheresi is an altogether more articulate experience which pits Race's scruffy, bluesy twitches and jerks against brooding surges of white noise. West African influences are also folded into the cinematic mix - "Antegone" is a spectral dialogue between stark, baritone desert blues and clouds of radio interference, while "Unknown#09" threads spindly ngoni patterns through gaseous exhalations reminiscent of Apollo-era Eno. But this is no glossy, coffee-table fusion project; in Race's hands, the kora on "White Spheres" negotiates eerie, dissonant intervals, and a commendably haphazard approach to mixing delivers a succession of unexpected sonic incursions thoughout.

- Julian Cowley

Sunday, October 25, 2009

LONDON NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

BUCHAREST 16.10.09

Hugo Race + True Spirit

Hugo Race + True Spirit
Live at the Frannz Club
Tuesday October 13th 2009 h 21:00
plus supports Marta Collica and Hellhound Brown
FRANNZ CLUB Schönhauser Allee 36 10435 Berlin

Thursday, September 3, 2009

TRUE SPIRIT @ YAH-YAHS MELBOURNE SEPT 12 09

Thursday, June 25, 2009

HUGO RACE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES 2009

HUGO RACE + TRUE SPIRIT EUROTOUR AUTUMN 09

Hugo with True Spirit: CHRIS HUGHES, DAVE ALLEN, & special guest HELLHOUND BROWN

24.09 I-Faenza - Clandestino
28.09 Jena – Rosenkeller
29.09 CH-Zurich - El Lokal
30.09 A-Dornbirn – Spielboden
01.10 A-Wien – Chelsea
02.10 A-Ebensee – Kino
03.10 A-Innsbruck – Treibhaus
05.10 Waldkraiburg – Haus der Kultur
06.10 Frankfurt – Sinkkasten
07.10 Köln – Underground
08.10 Aachen – Musikbunker
09.10 Essen – Grend
10.10 Hannover – Musikzentrum
11.10 Hamburg-Norderstedt – Music Star
13.10 Berlin – Frannz Club
14.10 Halle – Objekt 5
16.10 RO-Bucharest - The Ark (Liveland Festival Launch)
20.10 PL-Wolow - tbc
21.10 PL-Wroclaw - Firlej
22.10 PL-Warsaw - CDQ
23.10 PL-Olsztyn - tba
28.10 CZ-Valleske Mezerici - M Klub
29.10 CZ-Prague – Akropolis
30.10 HU-Budapest - Take 5 Jazz Club
31.10 SLO-Murska Sobota – MIKK
01.11 SLO-Llubjana - filmshoot
07.11 UK-London - Cross Kings

HUGO RACE SOLO with special guests Vicki Brown (USA), Erik Van Loos (NL) and Delavega (Antonio Gramantieri & Diego Sapignoli (Italia)

17.07 Varese – Sur Le Sofa
18.07 Travedona – Monate Cocktail Club
23.07 Ravenna – Bocca Baranca
24.07 Osnago/Lecco (Milano) - Locomotiva (in aperto)
26.07 Pisa - Argini e Margini Festival
28.07 Rivaldino (Forli) - Festival Musicabile
29.07 Itri (Napoli) - Museo del Brigantaggio
30.07 Bologna – Ghost Trees Festival
31.07 Barcellona (ME) – Centro per la Pace
01.08 Syracusa– Factory
02.08 Catania – Qubba
05.08 Vasto (Abruzzo)
06.08 Alberobello di Puglia
07.08 Santarcangelo – Zoe Café/Fuoriposto

HUGO RACE/HELIXED IN BRIEF

Photo of the Merola Matrix, live performance at the CCC, Venezia, Italia 2008 with Luca Recupero, Emiliano Cinquerui, Orazio Arena

Hugo Race CDs can be ordered online. Follow this link:

www.hugorace.com.au

Hugo Race is a prolific and visionary performer, musician, writer and producer from Melbourne, Australia. Hugo defies any easy label and has staked out a creative territory totally his own between rock, experimental and psychedelia. He also writes screenplays and non-fiction.

First introduced to the international stage as a founding member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds (he appears on the debut, “From Her to Eternity”, and features on several other Bad Seed’s cds and various compilations), Hugo then founded the seminal Australian art-punk cult band The Wreckery (1985), released through the White/Hot, Rampant, Citadel and Normal labels. A Wreckery compilation,”Past Imperfect”, was released in 2008 through Memorandum/Fuse Records, (Sydney ) and a national reunion tour followed.

In early 1989 Hugo moved base to Berlin, and Normal Records (Germany) released his debut solo album “Rue Morgue Blues” as the Wall fell, a fact reflected in Hugo’s frequently politically-inspired lyrics. So began two decades based in Europe and the production of 13 Hugo Race & True Spirit albums, the latest of which “53rd State” was released in Australia (Spooky Records) and Europe (Glitterhouse Records) in 2008 to rave reviews.

Currently, Hugo is immersed in preproduction for his feature film project "We Create Tomorrow"......

Some of Hugo’s other music projects include:

Dirtmusic together with Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts) and Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine), with whom Hugo performed recently at the Festival au Desert in Mali, Africa, later returning to Mali to record the Dirtmusic album BKO with Tuareg band Tamikrest - release date April 19, 2010 (Glitterhouse Records)

Hugo recently recorded with the the Denver (USA) based band Lilium, together with Pascal Humbert (Woven Hand, 16 Horsepower) - their collaboration 'FELT', will be released by Glitterhouse Records in May 2010

the Italian experimental pop of Sepiatone with Marta Collica (John Parish band), now licensed to Minty Fresh Records, Chicago (www.sepiatone.net);

the rogue electronica of Rogall’s Electric Circus Sideshow, together with DJ Stefan Rogall from Berlin’s Sonar Kollectiv (Perfect Toy Records);

the ambient electronica of Transfargo, together with Swiss DJ Dimitri de Perrot (RecRec Records);

the conceptual Italian multimedia montage of “Merola Matrix” (Desvelos Records)

Other productions and collaborations include:
Hellhound Brown, Pantaleimon, Klimek, Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds), Robert Forster (Go-Betweens), Rowland S. Howard (Birthday Party), Nikki Sudden (Swell Maps), John Parish (PJ Harvey), Max Sharam, Afterhours, Cesare Basile, Giovanni Ferrario (PJ Harvey), Soteria Bell, Feldmann, Lo.Mo, Alexander Hacke (Einstuerzende Neubauten), Delavega and many, many others. (In fact, there are too many collaborations to mention here and we suggest you refer instead to the discography)

In addition, Hugo has acted, scored and written for several feature films (Ghosts of the Civil Dead, Forbidden Lies, Queen of the Damned, Dogs in Space, In Too Deep, etc.), sung avant-guard contemporary experimental music at the Sydney Opera House (The Hanging of Jean Lee), had his writings published in magazines such as Australia's Overland literary journal and composed and acted for the theatre.

“Urban dreamscapes… elegant trip-hop… ambient noise psychedelia… raw cosmic blues… live garage rock… cinematic melancholia, new wave nostalgia, essential songwriting, post-rock minimalism…” – all these descriptions have been applied to Hugo’s work, best summarised as:

“Hugo Race is a psychedelic prophet, a 360 degree artist who makes compromises with nobody.” (Debaser, Italy, 2005)

“Both alone with a guitar or with his True Spirit, Hugo has toured Europe repeatedly, performing on a vast trajectory from the UK to Greece and was literally one of the first western “underground” acts performing inside the ex- eastern bloc European territories after the fall of the Wall. He has followed a personal musical vision in a series of mutating line-ups that have fused the boundaries between the "primal" (roots) blues and raw electronica - described by London Sounds as "night music of the soul", and by Melody Maker as "industrial-trance-blues". “ (Ludger Kordt, KGB, Germany)

“The stripped to the bone sound of the True Spirit exercises a fascination not exactly reassuring, yet magnetic in its evocation of obscure dangers. Music from the wild side of the street – or better, like walking blind in a war-zone…” (- Gianluca Testani, Mucchio Selvaggio)

Hugo Race - Helixed Productions

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