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[quote]ROME is a Luxembourgish dark folk/martial act founded in late 2005 as the main output for the songs of Jerome Reuter and was joined by co-producer Patrick Damiani as official member in early 2008. ROME signed to the Swedish label CMI in 2006 to release an E.P. entitled Berlin (June 2006) and the albums Nera (November 2006), Confessions d’Un Voleur d’Ames (April 2007), Masse Mensch Material (March 2008). In 2009 ROME got signed to the german label Trisol and released the EP To Die Among Strangers (May 2009) and the album Flowers From Exile (June 2009).
In their earlier work ROME mixes influences of Industrial and Post- Folk with Experimental and Electronic Pop. The traditions of (French) Chanson and (American) Folk are becoming more and more influential in their current work. In 2009 violin player Nikos Mavridis officially joined the band to further contribute to the creation of their unique sound, which they themselves refer to as Chanson Noir.[/quote]
Basically, this is really good neo-folk, very pretty and very catchy, at least in my opinion. I would recommend Flowers From Exile, probably most of all the song 'To Die Among Strangers'. I haven't heard the rest of their discography, but I was EXTREMELY impressed by Flowers From Exile.
Videos:
To Die Among Strangers
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq0S1567_bo[/media]
Odessa
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiyJMM9KH_k[/media]
Links:
[url=http://www.myspace.com/romecmi]Myspace[/url]
[url=http://www.romepage.eu/]Homepage[/url]
[url=http://www.last.fm/music/rome]Last.fm[/url]
I think the term "dark folk" sums it up quite well.
not bad.
or dork falk
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