Hugo Race No But It's True

Hugo Race No But It's True

With a career that's spanned almost three decades and over 20 albums, prolific and internationally renowned musician Hugo Race and his record label Rough Velvet Records are pleased to announce Hugo's solo album - No But It's True has just been made available digitally through iTunes.

Following a successful East Coast tour performing songs from the album, Hugo has returned to rave reviews about his album performance and exploration of the theme of love through covers from a maelstrom of music eras going back as far as the fifties, including greats such as 'I'm On Fire" - interpreted in a way reflective of Hugo's love of primitive folk and blues songs.

See 'I'm On Fire" here: YouTube

Hugo Race was not only a founding member of the Bad Seeds, he was the driving force be behind Plays With Marionettes, The Wreckery and more recently The True Spirit and has returned to Australia after two decades abroad, to perform these love songs in his hometown.

A visionary performer, Hugo Race is also an internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and producer. He has released 14 Hugo Race & True Spirit albums but his various collaborations number another ten or more albums spread over several continents including 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 Berlin-based Rogall's Electric Circus Sideshow, the contemporary Polish electronic composer Michal Jacaszek, Belgian violinist and actor Catherine Graindorge, and the Sicilian band Sepiatone with whom Hugo has released two albums with a third in the pipeline. Hugo also performs on the upcoming Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project double album together with artists like Mark Lanegan and Nick Cave.

In 2011, Race's album -Fatalists' received rave reviews globally. In September, Race will be seen on Rockwiz, one of Australia's favourite music quiz shows.

The Tracklist
1 No Regrets - (Tom Rush, made famous by the Walker Brothers)
2 Never Say Never - (Romeo Void, USA New Wave band from the 80s)
3 Cry Me a River - (made famous by Julie London and Ella Fitzgerald)
4 I'm On Fire - (Springsteen, needs no introduction)
5 High Temperature - (Little Walter, 40s/50s blues harp blower extraordinaire)
6 Never Ever Gonna Give You Up - (the inimitable Barry White)
7 Wait and See - (Lee Hazelwood)
8 She Lives (In a Time of her Own) - (13th Floor Elevators, from the album -Easter All Over' 1967)
9 A Thousand Kisses Deep - (Leonard Cohen)
10 Song For You – (Leon Russell, made famous by the Carpenters)
11 Silent Night - (Traditional)

Produced by Hugo Race and Cesare Basile, with a cover image created by designer Alannah Hill.