Hugo Race Fatalists
24 Hours To Nowhere (2016)

Hugo Race Fatalists originated in Italy in 2007 and have released 5 albums and one EP. The new album Once Upon A Time In Italy (2022) has a companion EP of 4 songs in Italian language versions. The album is released by Italian independent label Santeria Records/Audioglobe and will be available in Australia through MGM Sydney.

“At times dreamlike, there’s an indie cinematic vibe throughout: Johnny Cash on the Lost Highway (Lynch’s that is, not Bon Jovi’s). Elegant lyricism and wistful insight adds weight to some finely crafted songwriting and if Australiana is a genre, this is it.”
- Tim Batcup, Classic Rock UK

“’24 Hours from Nowhere’ is darker than the darkest Walkabouts song, it’s a scorched earth vision… The songs sound magnificent, the instruments like blocks of grey tones, beautifully picked out, with plenty of room between them… Overall this is a dark Gothic piece that skillfully calls on Lee Hazelwood and Ennio Morricone to create a suite of songs that is beautifully constructed and breathlessly cinematic.”
- David Cowling, Americana UK

“A captivating listen, with the ten tracks heavy on dreamy atmospherics. Hugo’s vocals are downbeat with a desert dry delivery, akin to say Lou Reed and Ed Keupper, and the mournful music is imaginative, taking you off into a vast, empty and dust blown wilderness.”
- Pete Craven, Vive Le Rock, UK

“This collaboration with Italian soundscape group Sacri Cuori highlights (Race’s) cinematic urges. The heartstabbing title track is a fine duet with Angie Hart of Frente, and Fatalists add cowboy twang to a set of agreeably Gothic growlers…”
- Alistair McKay, Uncut, UK


"A stylistic triumph which in its intensity succeeds not least thanks to the ingenious participation of its numerous, high-class companions..."
- Good Times, Germany

"The truth is that (Race's) music has the capacity to connect with the blues inside every one of us, bringing them to light when we need to confront our own phantasms."
- Indie for Bunnies, Italy

"A genial dance of deep, radical romance..."
- Rolling Stone, Germany

“The steel guitar and the man from Melbourne’s deep voice dominate these ten intimate works… bright, beautiful acoustic folk songs in a heady maelstrom of shimmering ballads of correspondingly weighty themes - love, death and dark secrets.”
- Gerhard Emmer, Kulturforum, Germany

“In "24 Hours To Nowhere" Race offers us his most intimate and personal side - sincere songs, played and sung with a passion and intensity that only the result of a life truly lived can give. ‘No God In The Sky’ is the disc’s masterpiece, a song of extraordinary intensity, a harsh and melancholy sweetness of tears.”
- Ignazio Gulotta, Distorsioni, Italy

“A profound journey, accompanied by an experienced guide who investigates every dark corner of the human soul, an author who should not be missing in any respectable discography.”
- Paolo Dordi, Rockerilla, Italy

“In Australia, Hugo Race is present not only with his music which speaks for itself, but also with a book he has recently published, "Road Series", an autobiographical Road Novel. In it, he processes his travel experiences of the past 30 years - a mixture of Bruce Chatwin and Jack Kerouac. But despite the unexpected literary success, Hugo Race continues to make music. He needs songwriting as the air we breathe, he says.”
- Carsten Beyer, Deutschlandradio Kultur

“In a nutshell, if as we said at the beginning Hugo is your secret religion, this new chapter with Fatalists certainly gives new hymns for chanting.”
- Cico Casartelli, Gagarin Magazine, Italy

“No one holds holds Hugo Race back, many are his projects and precious collaborations, like the partnership of Fatalists that links him to Sacri Cuori and their exceptional folk tradition. Race puts into play his deep timbre, the Italian band throws down their sure card of desert folk from another era and from the sowing of these arid lands are born ballads suspended in time.”
- Luca Minutolo, Rumore, Italy

“Modern folk songs, beautifully arranged, sometimes crossed by electronic beats or wrapped in the soothing touch of the strings, which reach beautiful peaks in the masterful covers of It'll Never Happen Again by Tim Hardin, and in the solar Ballad Of Easy Rider by the Byrds, or in the evocative and harrowing notes of We Were Always Young, No God in the Sky and 24 Hours to Nowhere, with the beautiful voice of Angie Hart counterpointing the Race’s crooner shades. A deep and intimate journey, where everything is twilight and dusk emotion.”
- comeunkillersottoilsole.com, Italy

Acoustic guitar, ethereal production and that voice from beyond the grave, cavernous but of extreme sweetness. These are elements of the new production of Hugo Race, this time under the aegis of Fatalists. Once these foundations are laid, our man then shows a more eclectic approach. In fact, between the unpretentious folk ballad, No God In The Sky, and the sensual blues of The Power Of You And I, the crooner spectrum remains very wide. Extremely thoughtful production without being at any moment too heavy, quite the contrary… (Race’s) unstoppable class emerges without any false note. -
Wilou, www.indiepoprock.fr,