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Artist/Band: Rome

Album: "Flowers From Exile"

Released: 2009

Credits▼

Guitar, Cello, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Recorded By, Arranged By -- Patrick Damiani

Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics By, Written-By -- Jerome Reuter

Translated By -- Romina Cintiono

Violin -- Nikos Mavridis

Voice [Spoken Word] -- Doru Atomei, Joseph Collazo, Marc Limpach, Nestor Crespo, Rupert Kraushofer

Voice [Spoken Word], Translated By -- Andreea Wade

"Flowers From Exile" was written on the road in Europa (2007-2008). Recorded and arranged at Tidal Wave Recording Studio, Karlsdorf, Germany in january and february 2009.

After having played in several underground bands in Luxembourg, singer-songwriter Jerome Reuter almost unintentionally founded ROME in December 2005 by recording a now legendary demo tape at a friend's studio in Germany. That demo is now known as ROME's first official release, the Berlin EP and the friend and engineer, Patrick Damiani, has become the second creative force in ROME. After having released three groundbreaking albums at a breathtaking pace (Nera -- 2006; Confessions d'un Voleur d'Ames -- 2007 and Masse Mensch Material - 2008), ROME found a home in the German label Trisol and released "Flowers From Exile" in June 2009.

The music and lyrical world of ROME is genuinely unique and constantly brilliant. Blending excellent songwriting craftsmanship, unusual arrangements and fine poetry into one monstruous and intimate musical output that combines chanson, dark ambient, apocalyptic folk, pop, acoustic rock, martial industrial, cold wave -- all rolled into one impressive avantgarde package. The lyrical beauty of Reuter's compositions and the complex arrangements of Damiani make ROME an unusually challenging musical experience. A must for music lovers.

"Flowers From Exile" is supposedly based upon the events of the Spanish Civil War, a conflict in which Reuter's family partook. The various samples used throughout the album, as well as its exotic arrangements, intimate an atmosphere of conflict and resignation, but specifics never quite materialize the way they would in folk music or songs of political protest. More plainly, "Flowers From Exile" tackles the familiar topics of isolation, desperation, and displacement whether it be political, familial, or religious in scope. Reuter's use of broad metaphor makes personal investment easy and ultimately lends the album a melodramatic tint, but the band's restraint and honesty takes the cheap catharsis of melodrama and converts it into a spectrum of various intrigues and ambiguities. In this way, the band's claim that they are influenced by chanteurs makes sense, especially if that influence were to include the likes of Jacques Brel or Serge Gainsbourg. As is the case with nearly every album conducted by a poet-musician, there are spots of lyrical extravagance that border on cloying, but "Flowers From Exile" ' s many merits make such excesses forgivable.

"To Die Among Strangers" is a heavy and propulsive number with explosive qualities. It is an emotionally heavy performance accented by a quickly strummed guitar and an elegant violin part which puts the album's slowly developed tension to good use.

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http://www.last.fm/music/Rome/Flowers+From+Exile

http://www.myspace.com/romecmi

Lyrics

to find a cooler place in the grass

to brave my fire

a jury heard, a sentence passed

to brave my fire

we lust for the wine you bolt

like all things impure, like all things undead

we beg from these swine

who told you to love and endure

and to live in our stead

the whores of Rome and the kings of France

have tried to brave my fire

now the snakes curl up, the curtains part

will you try to brave my fire?

we lust for the wine you bolt

like all things impure, like all things undead

we beg from these swine

who told you to love and endure

and to live in our stead

to find a little place in the grass

tune up for the funeral march

keep your treason brittle as glass

you could have been the first

could have been the last to brave my fire

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