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Once Upon A Time In Italy

by Hugo Race Fatalists

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Atomized 03:46
ATOMIZED We gotta leave this place or it’ll dig us both an early grave i’m too young to go and so are you you know is the power of our love ever gonna be enough? micro chips under our skin where do i start and you begin you’re so close to me i feel you, i hear you when you think we’ve been atomized, blown apart you and me, sweet memories God only knows where our stardust ashes blow but i will never give you up, i will never give this up the night is done done, new morning wake up – can’t you hear me call, that distant roar fly with me another hundred thousand years to come You’re so close to me i feel you, i hear you i see your blue eyed killer smile and i’d follow u to hell and back burned by this karmic sun but we really don’t give a fuq because it’s only love and it’s gonna have to be be enough wake up, this is no dream cant you hear me call, that distant roar fly with me for another hundred thousand years to come we’ve been atomized from the heart blown apart now we’re absolutely one we are one we are one
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Beat My Drum 05:19
BEAT MY DRUM   Beat my drum with your voodoo out of time rock my world with your beautiful disguise I can’t shake you, god knows I can’t deny the black hole lightning flashing between our eyes satellites are down, the future is offline my whole world is nuked but hey, I don’t mind lets get started, this big bang is ready to begin the way you move makes me suspicious what the hell? we’re back together again Piece by piece you abandon every part of me but I need you bad like I need my chemotherapy i travel 1500 miles just to see your face you got under my skin like some demon opiate c’mon shock me with yr rhythm, gimme some head bam bam bam, wipe my mind, help me to forget you’re a funeral for the dear departed yeah you turn me on what the hell? we’re back together again The way you flirt with the devil is crazy like you never had no self control i want your legs rapt around my neck bring me in from the cold take me to yr garden ripped in weeds and vines beat my drum with your pussy so sublime haunt me stalk me taunt me make me walk your line i know you need me that’s why you make me cry bam bam bam I fill the holes torn thru you at 6 years old bam bam bam fill the holes torn thru me c’mon heal my soul and yeah lets get started this big bangs only just begin the way you move makes me surrender one more time we’re back together again we’re back together again we’re back together again
3.
Hooked 03:38
HOOKED Hush now blue eyes don’t you cry i’m gonna eat some humble pie and if that pie makes me sick i’m gonna go a-wanderin’  and if my wandering’s out of time i’m gonna give you an alibi and if that alibi don’t stick i’ll summon up some kind of magic to fix the quaking deep in the core i can’t stop the tremors til i take the fall The past don’t mean anything to me except you’re the hook in my cheek draggin’ me back, my anchor to shore i saw you coming but you took it all to the limit and for what and for who destroying your mind breaking the rules listen to me don’t ask why we are running out of time its just our destiny i was here so you can be and if my memory starts to fade let me go don’t turn away hush now blue eyes don’t you cry daddy’s always born to die
4.
Overcome 05:01
OVERCOME around midnight your party clothes tellin’ me secrets i don’t know words frozen on your lips split by a screen, we don’t exist threading the seconds on our strings make me laugh, forget everything come back darling let’s make believe that right now is really real c’mon kill me thrill me kiss me drive me wild let me feel like i’m alive burn me serve me the fire of love holding on, i’m overcome show me who you really are blow out my candle, keep it dark prick me trick me cut me with your tongue like i’m your only one burn me turn me on the flames of love holding on, i’m overcome 60 seconds, 60 times 12 tell me the lies you tell yourself kill me thrill me kiss me drive me wild let me feel like i’m alive this will never be over and done i can’t move on, i’m overcome
5.
Mafia 05:26
MAFIA Everybody’s scared everybody knows in this little mafia world its how our how garden grows i turned around to stop you but you’d already gone i don’t know how but i gotta go on picked up my phone it was all in black and white i don’t know who but they hacked my mind how did i get here where did i come from? through the static i heard your siren song You dodged so many bullets you know you lived 9 lives but the news aint good coming down the wire how can i do this all alone? seems I lost my way, my way back home everybody’s scared they all know in our little mafia world this is the way it goes the bigger they con the harder they fall my minds wandering i can’t sleep no more the harder they con Can’t be trusted with nothing u people fight too much we gotta let go before they kill all of us we’re in this together but it all feels wrong i don’t know how but i gotta go on the harder they con Sometimes i feel like a motherless child in a race with the devil right down to the wire I picked up your trail but my powers gone don’t know how or why but i gotta go on the harder they fall, the bigger they con there’s a riot going on third stone from the sun when i got up on my feet i was walking in space and all of you were there too tho i don’t know your names everybody’s scared everybody knows in our little mafia world this is the way it blows
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MINING THE MOON  Uranium stairs ride the wind my son Plutonic love bid Utopia come tell the lookout kid maximum attention shoot magnesium flare if night riders come i sell Germanium shares dig my Germanium shares mining the moon mining the moon i’m booking in our honeymoon  mining the moon  mining the moon One cup of butter and a pigeons eye one handover the other when you kiss the dice gimme whole the loaf don’t feed me no crumbs  seven is the number and here they come Riders are approaching turn the house lights off  put your hand over my mouth so they can’t hear me cough  i left my ammunition in the kitchen sink  blindfold my mind so they can’t hear me think don’t shoot the messenger he’s my seed Methadrine moose perched on my knee Uranium stairs, ride the wind my son Plutonic love bid Utopia come i sell Germanium shares mining the moon mining the moon i’m booking in our honeymoon  mining the moon mining the moon don’t take off its too soon mining the moon mining the moon don’t take off its too soon mining the moon mining the moon
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Gold Digger 03:59
GOLD DIGGER Your karma’s no good its haunting you you rip me off even though i love you Gold Digger Gold Digger that’s your name but there’s no soul can’t be saved feel the touch of my hand connect your heart with your brain never too late to turn around its never too late to turn it around only fear holds you back Your shame weighs heavy but nobody knows i can reach inside where the cancer grows your karmas no good its choking you Gold Digger Gold Digger that’s the truth never too late to turn around its never too late to turn it around only fear holds you back Your karma’s no good its haunting you Gold Digger Gold Digger what you gonna do?
9.
San Leone 03:59
SAN LEONE You are my little napalm voodoo charm Sant’Agata tattooed on my arm i never sleep at the wheel i’ve only got two more one-eyed jacks to deal Scorpio Joe is the one to beat he doesn’t sweat doesn’t seem to feel the heat he says our Lord aint white but skin of bronze and likes to sing a sailor song San Leone del Mare San Leone of the deep I see the markings on your hand i’m going to make them disappear and then i’ll play my my triple X ace of hearts you know i never lose at cards when flames beneath the dealer climb i’m already hitching for a highway sign but not a soul comes down to this zone the darkest limits of ancient Rome With a cigar in my pocket our backs against the wall its you and me against it all one more time let’s take the money make a run tonight or we’ll never get outta here alive our Lord aint white but skin of bronze and likes to sing a sailor song San Leone del mare San Colombus of the sea
10.
Confessions 03:37
CONFESSIONS It was nothing it was everything felt like a lifetime passed in just a couple of seconds we thought it’d never end i’d do it all over again, but…. sometimes us isn’t enough some kinds of love just fuq you up Maybe you stopped remembering me told yourself you’d set me free gonna tell you the truth now you meant nothin’ to me (and yes, i was untrue) but i remember every little moment that we died you tore my fool heart open my bullshit left us broken i didn’t even realize you’d gone forever and i’m sorry that i lied i regret every god damn lie, but… sometimes love isn’t enough some kinds of love just fuq you up
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ITALY Standing on the platform waiting for the mystery train among the grifters and magicians in clouds of blue methane all the saints and fallen statues struck down by déjà vu confessing in empty churches that was the first time I saw you opium, Valium and frankincense bring your books we’ll watch ‘em burn once upon a time in Italy I liked my coffee bitter with a pack of MS red your communist friends wrapped a pink Armani scarf tight around your neck so many times I tried to leave you i was a stranger to myself until we did a runner from the old Hassler hotel once upon a time in Italy And the moon spotlights a halo on the dogs of Garibaldi street you kicked off your heels and danced around so light n pretty on your feet once upon a time in Italy I gave you a golden ring from the Ponte Vecchio we bought a one way ticket to heaven but you’re not ready to go opium, Valium and frankincense you keep me calling me back for one more eternal breath The first time I saw you could never be unseen once upon a time in Italy my narcoleptic dream

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The new Hugo Race album Once Upon A Time In Italy is a musical and lyrical tour de force. Recorded with his band Fatalists and Australian guest stars Georgia Knight and TJ Howden the album features 10 powerfully emotive new songs and one cover – Donovan’s Hurdy Gurdy Man. This special album was made during the isolation years of 2020-22. So how did this deep, dreamily beautiful album (including a bonus 4 track EP of Italian language versions) come to exist?

Hugo is an internationally based underground living legend, ex-Bad Seeds, ex-Oz postpunkers The Wreckery and since 1989 a maverick producer performer songwriter with Dirtmusic, The True Spirit, more at: hugorace.com. In his own words:

“The first demo’s were recorded in late 2019 with the band in Italy. A few months later the world shut down and for the next twenty months I was stranded in my Melbourne apartment… I never felt so alone. I called the Fatalists in Italy, Checco, Diego and Scorpio Joe, exchanging songs and ideas to forge a path through the void. New songs slowly emerged from dreams and memories, writing about the past with no glimpse of the future in sight, there was a lot of damage to process. My thoughts and lyrics swirled around my years of connection with Italy and the stories we tell ourselves to make it through hard times. The themes are so personal that I abandoned the album many times then came back to it, like a toxic romance. I love this album and the incredible band behind it. We also made Italian versions of the songs because Italy is in our roots and fate permitting, Fatalists will be back on the road come springtime 2022...”

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released April 8, 2022

Recorded at Al Mare Studio, Lido di Dante by Francesco Giampaoli
Further recording and mixing by Andre Idge Hehir at Soundpark Studio
Post-production at Helixed, Melbourne
Mastered by Richard Stolz at Woodstock Studio
Original artworks by Michelangelo Russo

Hugo Race – voice, guitars, organ
Diego Sapignoli – drums, percussions
Giovanni Ferrario – electric guitars, piano, synthesiser
Francesco Giampaoli – contrabasso, electric bass, percussion
Georgia Knight - vocals
TJ Howden – violins

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Hugo Race Fatalists formed in Italy in 2009, essentially a Hugo Race singer songwriter project together with Italian instrumental band Sacri Cuori, Fatalists have become a very popular live act in Italy and have toured across Europe and Australia, releasing 5 albums on the Glitterhouse, Interbang, Other Tongues and Gusstaff labels. A new album is slated for release in late 2021 www.hugorace.com ... more

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