ROME - ONE FIRE WORLDWIDE

A man and his guitar. An empty stage, blue cigarette smoke, a lonely spot. A picture like this exudes a timeless aesthetic. An aesthetic of loneliness, of absorption, which has been consistent throughout the last decades of music history. Jerome Reuter alias ROME lives this aesthetic. Breathes it, nourishes it and is nourished by it. Just him, his voice, his guitar. That's all it usually takes to silence a hall.

Musically fluctuating between various European folk and chanson traditions, refined by a modern interpretation of post-wave and industrial influences, ROME created a sub-genre of his own. In his texts he often deals with historical and weighty topics and refines them with elements from world literature. ROME While the references to current political events are rather indirect, Jerome Reuter presented a direct message on his 2023 album "Gates of Europe": The record was created amid the stirring emotions of the Ukraine war and documents the first year of the war.

Since 2005, Jerome Reuter has been expressing himself musically through his project ROME and has tried to understand his inner life and the world around him on over 20 albums and countless other releases. Some of his releases from the years between 2016 and 2025 will be released as a collection (“Anthology 2016-2025”) on April 25th. Released on the same day ROME also two more albums: “Civitas Solis” and “The Dublin Sessions II”.

The former focuses again on the events in Ukraine – “The Dublin Sessions II” was created after a trip to visit friends on Ireland’s Emerald Isle.