I Made It All Up For You is the latest album by Aussie music legend Hugo Race Fatalists his mainly Italian band. This time around Hugo recorded the album at Puccini Floating Music Academy on Lake Puccini Italy it was engineered by Simone Sandrucci, Francesco Giampoali, Lance Scott Walker and mastered by Toto Strapporava. The Fatalists are Giovanni Ferrario, Checco Giampaoli, Diego Sapignoli, Jennifer Charles, Massimiliano Galo, Nicola Baronti, Simone Sandrucci and Michaelangelo Russo.
The album opens with the slow intro to Against The World before Hugo's deep, warm caress vocals come in, emoting about the freedom he is still fighting Against The World for, swirling strings and a laid back feel, this has an innate beauty that makes me want to join Hugo in that fight.
Broken Love is a late night red wine and candles duet with Jennifer Charles, they slowly march into the unknown, what happens after Broken Love, do they survive, can they find a way to leave the anger behind them, the sparse atmospheric backing give this a reflective edge, for someone with a big heart and more love to give.
I Tread Softly almost as softly as they play, worried about how hot the earth beneath them burns, the trauma they see all around, they try to carefully walk through life's battlefields, without dying too soon, military beat drumming juxtaposed with piano and atmospheric ambient guitars has echoes of Leonard Cohen and Robbie Robertson, this is the sort of song that reveals more with every listen.
Born To Fly is slow dark brooding atmospheric folk remembrances, for a friend who left too soon, consumed by all those demons that were unable to get out. Bad Dreams a slow lullaby of despair for why you had to leave, your demons chasing you through your Bad Dreams, still can't get the message through to you, that this really is the parting of the ways, this is the gentlest of kiss offs.
45 In The Shade is a spaghetti western folk rumination, on the good old days of outlaw culture, when you hear that old church bell in the distance, signalling the showdown is about to begin, the lyrics sound like they should be uttered by Franco Nero with a cheroot hanging out of his mouth.
I Collide is a slow dark twisted ballad duet with Jennifer Charles, that feels like they are floating across the lake apart from each other, the lovers last whispered words to each other, fading further from each other, making plane that everything you ever told each other was made up especially for you.
Open Field has a slow determined backing for the vista that unfurls in front of Hugo, who feels re-born now he is no longer with you, can he fill in the barren wasteland before him. The Comet Drops while you lay back staring at the sky, strings whispering through the trees.
The album closes with Dream Country Home a cabin deep in the woods, somewhere love can bloom or die dependant on how you feel, this whispers it's hopes with horses hoof percussion and fiddles building the hopes and aspirations, held deep within that Dream Country Home, that sounds far more humble than they ones they raffle off online.
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