100 Years by Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo

Every new album is an exploration into the unknown but still, 100 Years is not the album that I expected to make. Knowing Michelangelo and I wanted to summon up the sonic wall approach of our Hooker album, I envisioned writing songs based in 3D street reality but the narrative expanded immediately into the fifth dimension. The words coming through were a stream of consciousness about people close to me missing from the now, from the past, from dreams, set in a mythic twilight where all of us are essentially alone, missing those we love in the same way they're missing us. And it felt strange but right. Making this record I felt how music can be a healing force, illuminating our lives with an abstract, intoxicating beauty greater than any individual sorrow. I believe that's the power of music and the reason I still love making records and why, every time I make a new one, I'm surprised at its alien strangeness, as if the words and music were made by somebody else.

100 Years is the new album by Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo, fusing blues, ambient and electronica, inspired and unclassifiable.
In 2017, the duo released John Lee Hooker's World Today (Glitterhouse/Gusstaff Records), a tribute to the blues legend’s delta legacy reinvented in a swirling mix of analog grit and deep trance pulses.

“Tradition does not mean passing the ashes, but the fire.”