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RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR - new release on Gusstaff!
Rats Live On No Evil Star, originally a palindrome, is now a combined project by Bernd Jestram and J. Edward Donald.
These recordings from the summer of 2009 are poised between autistic
sketches of a foreign and personal planet and an attempt at opening up
the retro jail cell of music and pseudo earnestness of post-modern
music. After hardcore came Joy Division and then the acoustic guitar. Playing with occultism in the guise of post-industrial while at heart remaining romantic, some songs speak of urban fatalism and thwarted passageways from a sovereign voice deeper than Ian Curtis, more confused than Daniel Johnston.
The first time J. Edward Donald failed was in the basement of his family home of 70’s suburban Chicago while trying to rollerskate; medication, doctors failed him, and family did, too. His first concert under the pseudonym Human Elephant was given in the winter of 2000 in Berlin following a short scholastic life of one year in the hills of Tuscany studying emptiness under the auspices of the (now late) venerable Geshe Jampa Gyatso.
His artistic endeavors have been kindly documented by producers in London, Berlin, and Chicago and have been featured on various compilations, cd’s, and7“’s. Three of his solo works are available through the Mexican labels of Scribble-Kite, Dog-Eared, and Umor.
Bernd Jestram, a long-standing member of the East Berlin music scene, has been playing music since the 80’s. Starting by playing bass in punk bands, he achieved later a larger audience with his fellow musician Ronald Lippok in the band Tarwater. He is also active in the field of radio-plays, music for theatres, and films. His music is mainly put together from fragments and still manages to remain utterly nonchalant in its complexity. It is detached and yet wholly engaging, repetitive but wonderfully melodic.
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HUGO RACE is releasing a new album "Fatalists" on Gusstaff Records
Australian songwriter and producer Hugo Race’s most recent releases are with the internationally acclaimed “BKO” by Dirtmusic (recorded in Africa and released by Glitterhouse Records), the electro-acoustic instrumental “Between Hemispheres” (Gusstaff Records), and the French/Canadian Lilium’s new album “Felt”, (Glitterhouse). Hugo Race’s new solo album Fatalists is raw, moody and lyrically driven. Recorded in Italy, guitarist Antonio Gramentieri (Sea of Cortez, Delavega), percussionist Diego Sapignoli (Delavega), Arizonan violinist Vicky Brown and Dutch bassist Erik Van Loo (Willard Grant Conspiracy) create an acoustic, melodic sound that casts Hugo’s songwriting and voice in a whole new light.
Hugo Race is a prolific and visionary performer, musician, writer and producer. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Hugo’s creative journey has given him ‘world citizen’ status, having lived over the course of the last 25 years in Sicily, France, Germany, the UK and the USA. Hugo’s songwriting draws on pop culture from rock n roll to soul to delta blues to avantguard electronic soundscapes. With his band The True Spirit and his various Helixed productions and collaborations, Hugo defies any easy label and has staked out a creative territory between rock, experimental and psychedelia.
First introduced to the international stage as a founding member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds (he appears on the debut, “From Her to Eternity”, and features on several other Bad Seed’s cds and various compilations), Hugo then founded the seminal Australian art-punk cult band The Wreckery (1985), released through the White, Rampant, Citadel and Normal labels. (A Wreckery compilation,”Past Imperfect”, was released in 2008 through Memorandum/Fuse Records, Sydney).
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