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 3’
· Hand-numbered and personally signed to 500 copies by Jérôme Reuter
“Art holds a unity that history does not” – it is not without good reason that this slogan is preposed to the third part of the trilogy. Art should not be confused with reality (Brecht) and thus ROME preserve the necessary critical distance from the subject without sinking into formlessness. At the same time they succeed equally in illustrating the warm-heartedness of their protagonists and demonstrating the unity of art and the struggle for freedom. From Plato to Nietzsche or Marx, all innovators mistrusted art, even though it is inseparably connected to revolt, because artists also want to create the world anew. AUFGABE formulates the possibility of a higher set of ethics beyond the current economic system; ethics, whose fundamental principles are those of generosity and universal freedom. It is the appeal for the cultivation of life-affirming, moral and life-enhancing, aesthetic values. To turn one’s own life into a work of art, to give yourself to this work: that is the desired stance. As Conrad expressed it: the objective of the artist is to see that justice is done to the invisible universe. This is exactly what Jerome Reuter has done here. “The way everything is at the moment, I say, for the intellectual and cultured person to haughtily look down upon the social and the sociopolitical realms is an erroneous approach which is contrary to life. The political and the social are part of the human.” – Thomas Mann
Released Mid October 2023 by Trisol Music Group.
Tracks Vinyl:
A1. The Conquest of Violence (Vinyl Edit)
A2. All for Naught
A3. You Threw It At Me Like Stones
A4. Automation
A5. Time and Tide
A6. Dawn and the Darkest Hour
B1. Years of Abalone
B2. Petrograd Waltz
B3. Disbandment
B4. Ballots and Bullets
B5. Appeal to the Slaves
B6. A Cross of Flowers
Tracks CD: Same 12 tracks, but ‘The Conquest of Violence’ in full length version
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