Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo - Album Launch + Hungry Ghosts (J.P. Shilo & Tim Howden) | Musicosity

Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo - Album Launch + Hungry Ghosts (J.P. Shilo & Tim Howden)

Event Details

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Headline Artist: Hugo Race
Venue: George Lane
1 George Lane
3182 St Kilda , VIC
AU

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Hugo Race (Dirtmusic, Fatalists, ex-Bad Seeds) and Michelangelo Russo (True Spirit), fuse rock, blues, ambient and electronic sounds on their raw, compelling new album “100 Years”. In 2017, the duo released John Lee Hooker's World Today (Glitterhouse/Gusstaff Records), a tribute to the blues legend’s delta blues legacy reinvented in a swirling mix of analog grit and deep trance pulses.

100 Years showcases the duo's sonic chemistry against Race’s stark songwriting. Inspired by the raw majesty of early blues recordings, the album was recorded in two days in a non-stop live session. Amplified harmonica, open-tuned guitars, smoky vocals and primal foot beat walk us through a landscape of dreamlike devastation, a hypnotic wall of sound suspended in time and space celebrating endurance and redemption, hand-made from ancient roots. “Tradition does not mean passing the ashes,...

Artists Performing at this Event

Melbourne-born multi-instrumentalist, producer, performer and songwriter Hugo Race is an eclectic and prolific artist who has lived and worked in the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy since 1988.

Michelangelo Russo (1962) is a visual artist and musician, born in Campobasso, capital of Southern Italy’s Molise Region.