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Hugo Race and the True Spirit
Psychedelic / Electroacoustic / Experimental

"This site managed by the True Spirit"

Melbourne Berlin Catania Los Angeles,
Australia

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   Hugo Race and the True Spirit: General Info
Member Since6/22/2006
Band Websitehelixed.net
Band Members
           THE TRUE
Chris Hughes
Brett Poliness Marta Collica
Giovanni Ferrario
Bryan Colechin
Hugo Race
Michelangelo Russo Nico Mansy
Ralf Droge John Molyneux

Video: Revelator

Video: As Above So Below

Video: Into The Valley Of The Light

Video: Taoist Priest

Video: LSD Is Dead

Video: A.M Radio

Video: Walker

Video: Before the Flood
InfluencesSolaris, Roky, Odetta, Uncle Lee, William Buckley, James Hogg, Trevor James Constable, Otto Preminger, Noam Chomsky, Timothy Leary, Arturo Robles Gil, Graham Hancock, Epic Theatre, Jared Diamond, York Manhattan, Dr. Stephen M. Greer - (http://www.disclosureproject.org/) Get friendly with this site!!! Country Joe McDonald, Nelly, Mao's Little Red Book, Steven Walker
Sounds Like'an alchemical fusion of some dark tribal initiation rites performed somewhere in the wilderness near the huge bonfire'.............. 'True Spirit evoke a seedy film noir underbelly where 3.00am bands play to folks who the next day might simply disappear'............"somehow like a combination of LSD propaganda and cabbalistic theosophy"
Record Labelglitterhouse (eu) / spooky (au) / bang! (es)
Type of LabelIndie





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   About Hugo Race and the True Spirit
53rd STATE
THE NEW ALBUM!
CD RELEASE DATE: APRIL 14th
GLITTERHOUSE RECORDS, GERMANY
DOUBLE VINYL LP EDITION
(complete version 4 extra tracks)
available in limited edition only!
BANG! RECORDS, SPAIN, AVAILABLE NOW!!!
                 DVD
       Hugo Race
              &
    The True Spirit 
     LIVE IN WARSAW
   GHOSTING THE CITIES

   COLLECTED VIDEOS
        2001 - 2006 DVD
release date: Feb. 15th 2008

 Advance release available directly
  from: http://www.gusstaff.com/
Gusstaff Records, Poland’s premier electronic and alternative label, proudly announce this new DVD package focussing on Hugo & True Spirit’s work on stage, on video and in the studio from 2001 until 2006. It contains ‘Live in Warsaw’, filmed and recorded by Polish national television during the 2006 ‘Taoist Priests’ Tour, showcasing the band at the CDQ club in the intensive final week of a 65-date European odyssey. “Ghosting the Cities” is a roadmovie directed by Nico Mansy during the “Long Time Ago” European Tour in 2001, and besides containing classic live footage from shows in Berlin and Prague, gives a candid, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the band’s modus operandi, as well as an insight into Hugo’s parallel “Transfargo” project. The Collected Videos contain 9 videos from the albums “Goldstreet Sessions” (’03), “Ambuscado” (’05) and “Taoist Priests” (’06), inclu-
ding LSD is Dead, Into the Void and the previously unreleased Heretic.
Hugo Race and the True Spirit
"A Condensed Reader’s Digest"
The True Spirit was always conceived as a collective more than a band. Hugo Race walked away from the multiple divorce of garage art rockers The Wreckery convinced of that, and into the freewheeling sample-heavy sessions of his first solo album Rue Morgue Blues which although featuring most members of the Wreckery had an experimental, electronic sound supported by the production of Not Drowning Waving
guitarist John Phillips). Armed with a debut album, Hugo moved to London in ’89 and then on to Berlin where a new True Spirit line-up formed around Hugo’s solo gigs at the X’n’Pop all night bar on the Mansteinstrasse; slide guitarist Rainer Lingke from Die Haut, drummer Chris Hughes who had recently moved to Berlin from Melbourne, and harmonica ace/producer John Molyneux who recorded Hugo’s 2nd album (Earls World) in his basement studio on the Bregenzerstrasse - these three occasionally joined by Einstuerzende Neubauten guitarist Alex Hacke or maverick trombonist Ralf Droge, and then in ’91 by original Wreckery bassist Bryan Colechin and synth artist/live sound engineer Ash Wednesday. This incarnation of the True Spirit road tested Hugo’s songs across Europe with frequent sojourns in the eastern bloc countries until ’93 and created the rock-styled sound of Hugo’s following albums for the German indie label Normal, Second Revelator (produced by Mick Harvey) and Spiritual Thirst (produced by Chris Thompson). In ’94 the band went into a hiatus as John Molyneux emigrated to Canada and Bryan Colechin moved back to Australia, and it was then that Hugo recorded the solo live album Stations of the Cross in Modena, Italy and began touring alone internationally. The rolling collective next rejoined in Melbourne ’95 with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Michelangelo Russo to record an album for Polygram; Valley of Light, produced by Tony Cohen, became the Spirit’s debut on Glitterhouse, the German label that still release the Spirit in Europe today, and was followed up by the extreme experimentalism of 96’s Wet Dream album which featured clandestine recordings not only by Race but also Chris Hughes’ early electronica. It was this album that marked the Spirit’s conversion to the electro godhead of the age, probably due to artistic contamination in central europe during the long, almost endless, tours that Hugo and the band conducted in the late 90s . Around this time guitarist/pianist Nico Mansy joined the collective for the Chemical Wedding sessions in Brussels, and Norman Fagg became the band’s live mixer and road manager. But by ’98 Norman had moved on to another world and the Spirit was dispersed over five far-flung countries; the Last Frontier album was self-produced on the move as Hugo followed his ritual continental driftings, eventually basing himself in Sicily by circa 00. In 01, Glitterhoused released the double retrospective Long Time Ago and Hugo took a few years out to concentrate on the Helixed projects - Sepiatone, Transfargo and the Merola Matrix. After this total immersion in the experimental and the exotic, Hugo regrouped the Spirit in Melbourne in 03 to record what became the urban hypnosis of the Goldstreet Sessions, and pursued the sessions back to Berlin to include the Spirit’s latest aquisitions - vocalist/pianist Marta Collica, lapsteel specialist Kristof Hahn and guitarist/producer Giovanni Ferrario. This line-up began touring again - with live mixer and road manager Dugald Jayes - and were recorded in Munich for the Italian music magazine Mucchio Selvaggio by the Deutsche Rundfunk, the concert tapes later released as the Live in Monaco cd. In 05 came Ambuscado, inspired by Bryan Colechin’s archive of unreleased Spirit material, where the band experimented with electronic spirituals and rampant psychedelia on a whole new level. By the end of that year the Taoist Priests sessions had already begun in Sicily, with the stated intention of fusing the feral anarchy of Ambuscado with Hugo’s recent slew of politically orientated songs. Released in 06, the Spirit convened back in Berlin to embark on a three-month tour, at the end of which, in between shows in Italy and Poland, they started the sessions for the forthcoming 53rd State album, scheduled for release in March 2008.
DISCOGRAPHY
Rue Morgue
Blues 1989
Earls World
1990
Second
Revelator 1991
Spiritual Thirst
1993
Station Of
The Cross 1994
Valley of Light
1996
Wet Dreams
1996
Chemical
Wedding 1998
Last Frontier
1999
Long Time Ago
2000
Goldstreet
Sessions 2003
Ready To Go
2004
Live In Monaco
2004
Ambuscado
2005
Taoist Priest
2006
53rd State
2008
AMIGOS

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Amethyst Wings Angel





Jul 5 2008 7:51 PM

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Thinking of you!
Jane Dust





Jul 2 2008 6:51 AM

Nice pic.
My thumbs don't hang so visibly through my belt rings. I got smaller ones. My index fingers... well that's another story entirely.
HOLLOWBLUE first album re-released on ITUNES





Jul 1 2008 5:59 AM

Thank you Hugo.
Great music!
gianluca
Wally aka Paradox Paul





Jun 27 2008 8:21 AM

bittedeluxe


Is Online


Jun 28 2008 5:11 AM

Robots broken.
noise...
difficult
hearing is believing
The Arcane Paradigm





Jun 28 2008 7:37 AM

DAWN IN ZEUS'S GARDEN
bbbb
susan





Jun 25 2008 11:59 AM

My heart is in Melbourne, while the rest of me is in Vienna. But all part are wishing you a stunning night at the Ding Dong Lounge.
The same of course to Mr. Hooper.
Gently sobbing
Susan
George Birch





Jun 23 2008 3:00 AM

Appreciating your work Mr Race, hope you come to England someday....best of luck.
marta





Jun 23 2008 1:58 AM

ciao hug, wie geht's
i have one unforgettable Easyjet story to tell..
i never arrived to Venice, well, next time...
Next days i'll be around tripping on bycicle i guess before the studio with Dug
Moschitos arrived with the solstice.
xxm
Julitha





Jun 21 2008 8:53 PM

lovely Hugo when you back? God how I love Sorcery the song makes me weeep xxx
Christian





Jun 21 2008 7:48 PM

You might dislike this type of question but, will you be playing at Trieselis in Katoomba this time again ?
(we stole all of Melbourne rain, you know !)
The Hippie Love Gods





Jun 19 2008 8:09 PM

Have a groovy weekend,
Zending you cheers peace and love ~!~
WAVING NOT DROWNING





Jun 19 2008 11:32 AM

thanks for addin'!

SwampMaN





Jun 18 2008 4:32 AM

I just created The Hugo Race & The True Spirit Appreciation Society in Facebook, check it out, HR fans.
KLIMEK





Jun 18 2008 1:57 AM

A film by Ivan Stanev
Music by Sebastian Meissner
From the album "Dedications" (Anticipate Recordings, NYC, 2007)

http://moonlake-film. com/



Veagaz





Jun 18 2008 12:25 AM

Thanks for the add!
...and thank you for all the great music.
really inspiring for me since i heard you first back in 1998...
Tom
-Veagaz-
www. veagaz. com
masterbators





Jun 17 2008 8:29 PM

thanx for the add !!!!

Spiritual Thirst was an awesome surprise
Eco





Jun 12 2008 7:46 AM

Our third album is available now

http://www. chi-qi. com/album. srf?profile=audio&album=Where%20Roses%20Fall&artist=Proteus%20911&format=320kbps
Love
Meeneee