Rome (band)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rome
Rome (2018)
Rome (2018)
General information
origin Luxembourg
Genre (s) Chanson Noir, Folk Noir, Post-Industrial , Neofolk
founding 2005
Website www.rome.lu
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Jérôme Reuter
Keyboard
 Tom Luciani
bass
 Patrick Kleinbauer
Drums
 Laurent Fuchs

Rome ( proper spelling : ROME ) is a Luxembourgish band that was founded in late 2005 by singer-songwriter Jérôme Reuter.

history

Rome signed a contract with the Swedish music label Cold Meat Industry in 2006 and released the EP Berlin (June 2006) as well as the albums Nera (November 2006), Confessions d'Un Voleur d'Ames (April 2007) and Masse Mensch Material (March 2008) . The band signed to the German record company Trisol in 2009 and then released the single To Die Among Strangers (May 2009) and the album Flowers from Exile (June 2009). In 2010 both the single L'Assassin and the album Nos Chants Perdus were released . This followed in 2011Peter Weiss ' anti-fascist novel trilogy The Aesthetics of Resistance based 3CD box The Aesthetics of Freedom of Rule . The artwork for the more introverted album Hell Money (2012) was designed by photographer Michel Medinger. In 2014 Rome released A Passage to Rhodesia, a concept album on the Rhodesian Civil War of the 60s and 70s.

On the occasion of the ten-year existence of the band, the best-of-album Anthology 2005-2015 was released in 2015 , accompanied by a world tour with concerts in Moscow, Kiev, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Madrid, Rome, London, Berlin and Saigon, among others.

In October 2016 Rome recorded some pieces in the Hansa Studios in Berlin, the recordings were released in 2017 under the title Hansa Studios Session .

Style and concept

The previous publications by Rome are not limited to a clear style. In its beginnings, the formation mixed influences from post-industrial and folk noir with experimental and electronic pop as well as the use of samples. In the following phase, the traditions of French chanson and American folk noir increasingly gained influence. Rome themselves called their style "Chanson Noir".

Jérôme Reuter names the French chansonniers Jaques Brel and Léo Ferré as his most important musical influences and, with regard to his lyrics, the "rebels, exiles and hunted of the 20th century" in the sense of the works of Albert Camus . Many of Rome's albums are themed concept albums.

As a live band, Rome is gaining volume in its current line-up, but Jérôme Reuter is playing more and more purely acoustic solo concerts at the same time. Live performances attract an extremely diverse audience, spanning a wide range of clothing styles and social classes.

Discography

  • 2006: Berlin (MCD)
  • 2006: Nera (CD)
  • 2007: Confessions d'Un Voleur d'Ames (CD)
  • 2008: Mass Human Material (CD)
  • 2009: To Die Among Strangers (single)
  • 2009: Flowers from Exile (CD / Vinyl)
  • 2010: L'Assassin (single)
  • 2010: Nos Chants Perdus (CD / Vinyl)
  • 2011: Our Holy Rue / The Merchant Fleet (10 ")
  • 2011: The Aesthetics of Freedom of Power (3CD)
  • 2012: Fester (single)
  • 2012: Hell Money (CD)
  • 2014: Hate Us and See If We Mind (MCD)
  • 2014: A Passage to Rhodesia (Box-Set) including My Traitor's Heart (10 "Picture disc), House of Stone (CD)
  • 2015: A Passage to Rhodesia (CD / Vinyl)
  • 2016: Coriolan (CD mini album)
  • 2016: The Hyperion Machine (CD)
  • 2017: Hansa Studios Session (CD / Vinyl)
  • 2018: Hall of Thatch (CD / Vinyl), Faces of Clay (Vinyl)
  • 2019: Le Ceneri di Heliodoro (CD / Vinyl)
  • 2019: Beetle Time (Vinyl)
  • 2019: Behind the Walls of the City (7 "feat. Eugen Balanskat ( The Skeptics ))
  • 2019: The Dublin Session

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/kultur/tourschluss-in-der-kufa-rome-blickt-auf-zehn-jahre-karriere-zurueck-566077620da165c55dc4ef58 , accessed on December 8, 2017
  2. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/kultur/tourschluss-in-der-kufa-rome-blickt-auf-zehn-jahre-karriere-zurueck-566077620da165c55dc4ef58 , accessed on December 8, 2017
  3. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/kultur/tourschluss-in-der-kufa-rome-blickt-auf-zehn-jahre-karriere-zurueck-566077620da165c55dc4ef58 , accessed on December 8, 2017
  4. ↑ The band's website , accessed November 24, 2017
  5. ↑ Review of The Aesthetics of Freedom of Rule (Memento from September 24, 2015)