- Hugo Race
Hugo Race is an Australian
rock music ian andrecord producer who has been based inEurope since 1989. He was a member ofNick Cave and the Bad Seeds , before formingThe Wreckery withNick Barker andRobin Casinader in the 1980s. He is currently a member ofHugo Race and the True Spirit .Race is currently residing in
Catania ,Sicily .True Spirit have released 12 albums. At least 6 of these are available throughGlitterhouse records , Germany.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. He was a founding member ofNick Cave 's Bad Seeds (1983), with whom he started working in the terminal stages of the legendary Birthday Party (he appears on five CDs of the Seed's catalogue). In Melbourne he founded The Wreckery (1985) who went on to become one of Australia's seminal cult bands of the 80s, releasing with the White, Rampant, and Citadel labels.Throughout
the 90s , Hugo released a series of nine records under his own name with theBerlin -based musical collective True Spirit for the Normal and Glitterhouse labels, (Germany), culminating in the "Long Time Ago" double-CD retrospective released in 2001. The True Spirit has toured Europe repeatedly, performing on a vast trajectory from theUK toGreece and were literally one of the first western (let alone Australian) acts performing inside the ex-eastern bloc European territories. Recording in diverse situations and locations fromBrussels toBologna , the True Spirit have followed a personal musical vision in a series of mutating line-ups that have fused the boundaries betweenthe blues andelectronica - described byLondon Sounds as "night music of the soul", and by "Melody Maker " as "industrial-trance-blues ".In 1999 Hugo set up his own production base, [http://www.helixed.net Helixed] , incorporating diverse musical side-projects such as the Italian-based [http://www.sepiatone.net Sepiatone] , the
Zurich -based "Transfargo" (RecRec Music , Switzerland) and the Sicilian-based multimedia project, "Merola Matrix" (Desvelos Records, Sardinia). He has also produced Italian artists such as Cesare Basile and Nove Rose, as well as the Australian artist Mia Stone's "Michaela" project. Hugo's involvement in film stretches from soundtracks to acting in such diverse major productions asRichard Lowenstein 's "Dogs In Space ",John Hillcoat 's "Ghosts... of the Civil Dead ", andMichael Rymer 's "The Queen of the Damned ".External links
* [http://www.helixed.net Helixed.net Hugo Race official site]
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