A Man Against Time…<\/p>\n
War is casting its dark shadow over Europe again, as the twenties of this century seem to echo the interwar years, when another world war was looming. Today Ukraine is ablaze from daily Russian attacks, while Europe stands divided on how to position itself in this conflict that often seems like the herald of a far bigger catastrophe to come.<\/p>\n
For his musical project ROME, Jerome Reuter chose the fate of Europe as his main subject matter to wrestle with. Since 2005, Reuter has written many songs and concept albums focusing on key moments in European history and which reflect and comment on its myths and narratives. With the artist’s desinvolture, ROME deconstructs historical events and ideologemes in order to analyse them from various perspectives, and only to return them as questions to the listener. Reuter oscillates between half-angry, half-melancholic witness and participant observer, from whose individual-objective viewpoint all things are inevitably charged with pathos. ROME invites us to observe, discern and shudder, but also to be reborn and shine anew, to \u201cwalk in brightest black towards the sun\u201d.<\/p>\n
Reuter’s songwriting can often be likened to a journey on which individual impressions mix with personal encounters and conversations. As if one is reading in a diary after a turbulent day, in which one’s experiences are reflected upon and poured into iconic metaphors. \u201cCivitas Solis\u201d is expressly not to be taken as one of ROME’s many concept album that we have come to appreciate: recordings on which Reuter fully immersed himself into the respective period and its complex conflicts, whilst coming out the other end to look at the whole picture in a new light and from a spectator\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n
Jerome Reuter is a searcher on the less-trodden and winding paths of history, driven by a longing for Europe – the myth and the utopia – between enlightened manifesto and irrational fortress. As the central metaphor on this present release, Reuter uses Civitas solis, the city of the sun as taken from the Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella’s utopian novel from 1602, which imagines the economical and political structure of an ideal state – one of the first social utopias. In ROME’s universe, where both traditionalist and anarchist leitmotifs and connotations abound, this model can be read in a rather ambivalent way.<\/p>\n
Stylistically, ROME uses an impressively broad musical variety on \u201cCivitas Solis\u201d; from chansons in the singer-songwriter vein of Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen and Townes van Zandt, to cold Dark Wave-type accentuated acoustic guitar elements: An alternating bath of martial hymns and introspective ballads evoking key moments in the band’s 20-year history, and which \u2013 as all ROME releases \u2013 raises questions. Provocative questions: What does the future hold? And what will it mean for Europe? All we can do is brace for what lies ahead, while we are \u201estanding on the Western Wall\u201c, as \u201cmen against time\u201d witnessing the storm.
\nCD EDITION:<\/p>\n
TRACKLISTING:<\/p>\n
La France Nouvelle
\nIn Brightest Black
\nTomorrow We Live
\nFood for Powder
\nAd Vindicta
\nBy Tradition
\nDannazione
\nBring Me the Head of Romanez
\nThe Western Wall
\nWhite Flags
\nJupiter
\nMar\u2019yana
\nMen Against Time
\nHerculaneum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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