Limited VINYL+CD re-release of the long deleted album, originally released in 2011 as part of a 3CD-Box, re-released in 2012 as individual CD and in 2017 as part of a super limited 3LP Box.
· Black 180g 12" vinyl
· 180g audiophile vinyl – German pressing!
· Sturdy cardboard sleeve
· Printed vinyl labels and inner sleeve, containing all lyrics
· The CD in slipcase contains the studio album ‘Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit – Band 1’
· Hand-numbered and personally signed to 500 copies by Jérôme Reuter
The aesthetic dimension of this first volume is that of immediacy. This is made plain by the choice of the recording techniques used (throughout the entire production, Jerome Reuter used only analogue equipment) and the raw and unrelenting sound. It sings the praises of the birth of a revolt, born out of a fascination with action and resistance in itself. It is the pride in self-determination, of resistance, because to resist means giving destiny a form (Camus). However, ROME does not present art which only devotes itself to efficiency: the music remains too experimental, too difficult to decode for that to be the case. “Free man, you will always love the sea” (Baudelaire): as is so often the case with ROME, the poetry of the sea (‘The Merchant Fleet’) crops up again here and there. The liberation and/or libertarian movement was never a coherent movement, because it never wanted to be a matter of demands, but of life (Landauer). Its nature is manifold and contradictory. Its essence is of freedom; therefore, it can never be uniform. This finds musical expression on AUFBRUCH in the multifaceted, stylistically-differing arrangements: from haunting sequences reminiscent of audio books, to plaintive ballads and experimental industrial collages – everything is represented here.
Released Mid October 2023 by Trisol Music Group.
Tracks Vinyl:
A1. The Chronicles of Kronstadt
A2. The Angry Brigade
A3. The Spanish Drummer
A4. To Teach Obedience
A5. The Death of Longing
A6. Our Holy Rue
B1. The Night-Born
B2. The Pyre Glade
B3. In Cruel Fire
B4. A Pact of Blood
B5. The Merchant Fleet
B6. A Cross of Wheat (Vinyl Edit)
Tracks CD: Same 12 tracks, but ‘A Cross of Wheat’ in full length version
English