imaginary trip sounds

O projecto H.U.G.O. chega da itália. Constituido por Marco Benedetti (programação e percursão), Rocco Spagnuolo (teclas, laptop e baixo), Daniela Zebra (vozes) e Alessandro Parilli (baixo), lançou este ano o álbum Equilibrium. Nascidos em 2006 pela mão de Marco e Rocco, recrutaram mais tarde Daniela, que vinha do rock psicadélico e do pós-punk. Daniela veio a conhecer no que se tornaria o quarto elemento da banda, Alessandro. Esta formação é a que se mantém actualmente, embora pelo meio existisse um outro elemento, Marta, que se mudou para espanha e deixou o grupo.
Em relação à sua sonoridade, os H.U.G.O. apresentam uma mistura de trip-hop psicadélico, com elementos de synthpop e até de techno. Sintetizadores em devaneios psicadélicos, batidas bem marcadas e a voz de Daniela Zebra a dar uma toada trip-hop/pop às músicas. Traduzido do italiano do myspace do grupo, cortesia do tradutor do Google, fica o seguinte:

"The H.U.G.O are born in the 2006 from the encounter between Daniela (voice, witnesses, agreements), Marco (battery, agreements, audio editing) and Rocco (eclectic polistrumentista, composer and arranger). The first pieces see the light, electronic bases played to the computer and witnesses in Italian.

The H.U.G.O then decide to play from the alive one and begin the long search of an other element for the group. During the tests in it knows it alternate various guitarists that will not never become part of the band. In this phase the doubts and the questions are many, everyone has an own idea that must cohabit with that of the others and not c' it is some emergency to succeed to meet itself. The experiences and the tastes of everyone of the members rather are variegati: Daniela comes from the rock psichedelico and the post punk, with evolution in music electronic (Doors, Lydya Lunch, Spiral Tribe), Marco is inspired from the jungle and the nu-jazz of matrix electronic (Massive Photek, Squarepusher, Lamb, Bugge Wesseltoft), Rocco loves the Massive Attack, Bjork, Brian Eno but also the Jazz, Bach, Beethoven and classic music in general terms. The sung one in Italian does not satisfy and decides to use the English who seems to be more near the electronic sounds and allows to speak public a immenser - although still invisibile one. It is own in this phase that the group discovers new points of encounter and the new production tracks is made more driven in. Daniela accidentally meets Alessandro Parilli, musician of long experience that sound contrabbasso and the low electrical worker, beyond to having much familiarity with the computer and like fonico, that it enters to make part of linens-up stablily." (from the italian by Google Translate)

H.U.G.O. - Walking in the sun