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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, but the fire.”

Take a listen to some Hugo & Michelangelo below:

Hobo Blues - Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo

HUGO RACE & MICHELANGELO RUSSO - LOVE BLUES (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

HUGO RACE & MICHELANGELO RUSSO - THE WORLD TODAY (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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”.

Support for the night is still to be announced. Doors open at 7pm and tickets can be purchased below:

Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo - Album Launch Tickets, George Lane, St Kilda | TryBooking Australia

See you there :)