Hello Lovelies!

My good friend Hugo Race, has a new album out "Between Hemispheres". It's just been released a week or so ago and I want to tell you about it because I played some harmonium on one of the tracks : )  And because I am very honoured to have been a part of this project. And because the tracks are so heart-achingly beautiful, like the desert, like the sun setting over the desert.... The sound of the kora, brings those images into my minds eye because it is played with so much feeling and Hugo resonates naturally with this ancient instrument.  It's a really stunning album. And I'm not just saying that 'cause I'm bias! I like the cover too, here, look see : )
More info below, the below.



Hugo Race: Between Hemispheres

Release date: 05.10.09 by Gusstaff Records, Poland. UK Distribution: Baked Goods

Setting aside Hugo’s past with the Melbourne post-punk scene and the Bad Seeds in the eighties, and his solo work in the nineties with the True Spirit collective, over the last decade he has continued to release a steady stream of his songs internationally as well as collaborative projects such as Dirtmusic, Sepiatone, Merola Matrix and Transfargo to an expanding global audience.

Taking its cue from the instrumental electronica of We Create Tomorrow (Reprise), the closing track of 2007’s ‘53rd State’ album, comes the new Hugo Race release ‘Between Hemispheres’. This instrumental album contains no human voices – instead, raw acoustic instruments are pitted against sculpted analogue sounds in a vast organic space both dramatic and meditative, brutal yet beautiful. Here the delta blues remains – but distantly, like background radiation.

Recorded in Africa, Europe and Australia, Between Hemispheres carries references to Hugo’s work with Transfargo (the instrumental ‘Mil Transit’ album from 2004), and the experimentalism of the True Spirit’s ‘Wet Dream’ and ‘Ambuscado’. Using the African string instruments ngone and kora against a stark background of analogue synth, digital pulses, deep space radio signals and widescreen guitar, Race composes a dreamlike experience that echoes his own songwriting.

A trip into the glacial interstice between quantum and digital, these interdimensional meditations traverse the synapse between the left and right sides of the brain, between thought and expression, between two oscillating magnetic poles - between hemispheres.

www.helixed.net www.myspace.com/hugorace


Cover art painted by Michelangelo Russo.
Guest artist - Pantaleimon.
Mastered by Jacaczek.
Produced by Hugo Race for Helixed 2009.

Dear Friends

After my last blog some kind folk told me they had problems signing up to the mailing list on the Myspace page and on the website.

So, I'm writing a quick note to say that the mailing list has now definitely been mended and is working a treat : )

As I said before I will be holding other  'giveaway events' in the future , so to make sure you're in for a chance to win a signed CD, sign up now.

Love
~ AnDria ~

Hello!

I had an overwhelming response last night, and 10 wonderful friends of Pantaleimon are receiving a free signed copy of 'Heart of the Sun'.  Thank you for getting in touch my lovers!! I loved reading all your sweet letters.

For those that missed out, I will periodically be staging similar 'events'. So next time it can be you! 

I would suggest signing up for the Pantaleimon mailing list on the website and on Myspace ('cause it's the same) , so you can be one of the first to know : )

 I love you all!

~ AnDria DeGens ~
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Hello Loves

I had the pleasure of giving an extensive 3 page interview with George Parsons for Dream Magazine (#9) recently and now the magazine is just out in the USA.   Also the issue comes with a free CD and I gave them an exclusive, never released song of 'Three Men' . A song written by Baby Dee originally.  

Go here for more details and also info on how to get hold of a copy: http://www.dreamgeo.com/order.html

I love you

Ms P xxx

Tum De Te Tum!

Three Pantaleimon records are now with those lovely people at CD BABY. 

Meanwhile I'm spaaaaaacing out again.... 

Love you

xoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo : )

Dear Friend,

I am very honoured to have been one of the artists involved with this project.  The exhibition actually took place at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon , France. This book is a hard-backed, massive and beautiful record of the event.

Also, with the book comes a DVD with an edited version of the music composed by Susan Stenger with contributions from Robert Poss, Alan Vega, Alexander Hacke,
F.M. Einheit, Kim Gordon, Mika Vainio, Bruce Gilbert, Ulrich Krieger,
Warren Ellis, Jim White, Jennifer Hoyston, Spider Stacy and yours truly : ) You can hear my contributions on track 3.

The other fascinating thing about this book apart from the beautiful artwork, is Susan Stenger's reproductions of her music score for the entire 96 days. Incredible!!

All the details are below and also details of how to get your hands on a copy.

Love in light

Andria xxx