Rome - Civitas Solis - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A Man Against Time... War is casting it's 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. 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 it's 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 Inchwalk in brightest black towards the sunInch. 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. InchCivitas SolisInch 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 it's complex conflicts, whilst coming out the other end to look at the whole picture in a new light and from a spectator's point of view. 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 - be