Hugo Race is an internationally acclaimed Australian singer, songwriter and producer.
A founding member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and the seminal Australian 80s cult band The Wreckery, Hugo has released 20 albums and collaborated with artists from Sao Paolo to Rome, Berlin, London, Tucson, Brussels, Warsaw, Mali, Africa and beyond.
Born in Melbourne, Hugo has spent most of the last 25 years living in Italy, France, Germany, UK and the USA. With his international True Spirit collective he has produced 14 Hugo Race & True Spirit albums.
Hugo’s various collaborations span another ten or more albums, spread over several continents including his USA project Dirtmusic (their ‘BKO’ album, recorded in Bamako, Africa, a cross-cultural collaboration with the Malian Tuareg group Tamikrest, cited as one of the best albums of 2010), the French-American band Lilium, the Brazilian project Moses Complex, the London-based Pantaleimon, the Berlin-based Rogall’s Electric Circus Sideshow, the Sicilian band Sepiatone, the European ‘supergroup’ Songs With Other Strangers with PJ Harvey producer John Parish, and the Italian multimedia project Merola Matrix.
In 2010, Hugo’s album ‘Between Hemispheres’, a mix of African instruments and edgy electronica, received rave reviews globally.
Hugo has sung for contemporary composers including Michal Jacaszek, David Chesworth, kLimeK, Catherine Graindorge and Andree Greenwell, and created soundtracks for film makers including Andrew Dominik, John Hillcoat, Stefan Popescu, Anna Bronowski and Nicolas Humbert.
‘Fatalists’ is his first record as a solo singer/songwriter, released in Australia by Other Tongues, in Europe through WSS/Gusstaff Records, hailed in the international music press as a “masterpiece.”
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