New album release – “John Lee Hooker’s World Today”

ROUGH VELVET RECORDS AND MGM ANNOUNCE
HUGO RACE AND MICHELANGELO RUSSO RELEASE
“JOHN LEE HOOKER’S WORLD TODAY”
https://MGM.lnk.to/JLHWT

Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo release a brand new, career-spanning collection of John Lee Hookers finest tracks. Both musical veterans are no strangers to the blues or the Hooker catalogue and impressively, the release showcases an introspection into decades of music making.

Hailed as a supreme influence on the music of their band Hugo Race & The True Spirit, Race and Russo’s reimagining of Hooker is simultaneously blues, electronica, avant-garde and ambient and a great homage to one of the greats of rock and roll prehistory.

Recorded in a single, continuous day and night live session at the Berlin studio of Einsturzende Neubauten with engineer Boris Wilsdorf, this is an epic album of sonic sorcery suspended in time and place, looking back through twenty-first century through the eyes of John Lee Hooker’s delta blues legacy, in a swirling mix of analogue grit and the deep trance pulses on the 100th anniversary of Hooker’s birth.
 
Released internationally today through Glitterhouse Records and Gusstaff Records in Europe, and Rough Velvet Records/MGM in Australia. Race and Russo will tour John Lee Hooker’s World Today in Australia, July-September 2017.

Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo: John Lee Hooker’s World Today 2 Race & Russo’s most recent releases as Hugo Race & The True Spirit are 2015’s ‘The Spirit’ LP and the ‘False Idols’ EP (Glitterhouse Records), for which the band performed some 100 concerts worldwide to critical and commercial acclaim.

 
 
Rolling Stone, Germany: ‘Dark Eros and transcendental blues…’ Q, London: ‘A darkly singular experience then, and one of the best records he’s
ever made…’

The Music, Australia: ‘A bluesy, brooding collection of songs by a talented singersongwriter with three decades of musical prowess behind him.’

Eclipsed, Germany: ‘Stomping grooves and eerie guitars, this album tingles under your skin…’

Focus Kultur, Germany: ‘No one else makes music quite like this, and that in itself is an achievement…’

Rock and Folk, Paris: ‘This voyager without frontiers advances through a menacing atmosphere of no-wave electroacoustics. There is the spirit here, and it doesn’t forget the body and the soul…’

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Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo – John Lee Hooker’s World Today – https://MGM.lnk.to/JLHWT

TRACK LIST

SIDE A
1. Hobo Blues
2. Love Blues
3. Serves You Right to Suffer
4. Decoration Day

SIDE B
5. The World Today
6. The Motor City’s Burning
7. Country Boy
8. When My First Wife Left Me

TOUR DATES

SA       29.07   Echuca  Blues Festival   
SU       30.07   Echuca  Blues Festival
FR       11.08   Melbourne – Flying Saucer Club       
FR       18.08   Kyneton – Major Tom’s
SA       19.08   Ballarat  – The Eastern  w/- Matt Malone
FR        25.08   Nambour QLD – Bison Bar
SA        26.08   Brisbane – Junk Bar
FR        08.09   Canberra – Smith’s Alternative            
SA        09.09   Sydney – Leadbelly     
SU       10.09   Maitland NSW – Grand Junction
FR        15.09   Bendigo – Bendigo Bank Theatre
SA       16.09   Melbourne – Catfish
SU        24.09   Adelaide – Wheatsheaf                        
SU        01.10   Port Macquarie – Wildwood Festival