ROME

In the organizer's words:

A man and his guitar. An empty stage, blue cigarette smoke, a lonely spotlight. An image like this exudes a timeless aesthetic. An aesthetic of loneliness, of contemplation, which runs consistently through the last decades of music history. Jerome Reuter alias ROME lives this aesthetic. He breathes it, nourishes it and is nourished by it. Just him, his voice, his guitar. That's all it usually takes to silence a room.

Musically oscillating between various European folk and chanson traditions, refined by a modern reading of post-wave and industrial influences, ROME has created his very own sub-genre. In his lyrics, he often deals with historical and weighted themes and refines them with elements from world literature. While ROME 's references to current political events tended to be indirect, Jerome Reuter's 2023 album "Gates of Europe" had a direct message: the record was created amid the stirring emotions of the war in Ukraine and documents the first year of the war.

Since 2005, Jerome Reuter has been expressing himself musically through his project ROME, trying 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 25. On the same day, ROME will also release two more albums: "Civitas Solis" and "The Dublin Sessions II".

The former once again focuses on the events in Ukraine - "The Dublin Sessions II" was created after a trip to visit friends on the Emerald Isle in Ireland.