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Rome (band)
Rome is a Luxembourgish neofolk band founded in November 2005 as a main output for the songs of Jérôme Reuter (born August 2nd, 1981) of Luxembourg. Though Reuter is the main creative force in the band, he performs live with a range of musicians who also contribute performances on various studio recordings. In early 2006 Rome was signed to the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry. Rome has since signed with the Trisol Music Group record label as of 2009. Rome is considered one of the most important acts within the neofolk genre. Background Reuter previously recorded music under the name Reggie Fain, which was influenced by Tom Waits. He was also a member of an Oi! band called the Skinflicks, and a post-punk band called Mack Murphy and the Inmates, where he performed under the name Mack Murphy. Reuter's first recording as Rome was the EP ''Berlin'', which was recorded in Patrick Damiani's studio in Germany in December 2005. Damiani, a sound engineer, has been considered a ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mėnuo Juodaragis
Mėnuo Juodaragis ( en, Black-Horned Moon or Moon of the Black Horn, sometimes abbreviated as BHM (''MJR'')) is an annual Baltic culture, alternative music, folk music and experimental music festival organized in Lithuania. It has been running since 1995 and is visited by 5,000 to 6,000 people each year, making it one of the biggest and oldest festivals in Lithuania. The festival's programme includes lectures by folklorists and historians, workshops and demonstrations by artisans (blacksmiths, leatherworkers, weavers, jewellers, dyers and others), traditional rites, historical reenactments, art exhibitions, film screenings, hikes, sports competitions and folk dancing. History The festival was initiated in 1997 as a spontaneous one-day gathering of several young people and their friends in Verbiškės village, Molėtai District, Lithuania, where it was organized biennially until 1999. The festival later moved to Sudeikiai, a settlement near Utena town, where it took place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link=no) or The Uprising ( es, La Sublevación, link=no) among Republicans. was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, and consisted of various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and republican parties, some of which had opposed the government in the pre-war period. The opposing Nationalists were an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets and was variously viewed as cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neofolk Music Groups
Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of contemporary folk music, folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s. Neofolk may either be solely acoustic or combine acoustic folk instrumentation with various other sounds. History The term "neofolk" originates from esoteric music circles who started using the term in the late 20th century to describe music influenced by musicians such as Douglas Pearce (Death In June), Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus (band), Sol Invictus) and David Tibet (Current 93). Anglo-American folk music with similar sounds and themes to neofolk existed as far back as the 1960s. Folk musicians such as Vulcan's Hammer, Changes, Leonard Cohen, and Comus (band), Comus could be considered harbingers of the sound that later influenced the neofolk artists. Also the later explorations of Velvet Underground's band members, specifically those of Nico, have been called a major influence on wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defiance
Defiance may refer to: Film, television and theatre * ''Defiance'' (1952 film), a Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander * ''Defiance'' (1980 film), an American crime drama starring Jan-Michael Vincent * ''Defiance'' (2002 film), a western starring Brandon Bollig * ''Defiance'' (2008 film), an American World War II film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber * ''Defiance'' (TV series), a science fiction TV series * ''Defiance'' (play), a 2005 play by John Patrick Shanley * HMAS ''Defiance'', a fictional Australian warship in the TV series ''Patrol Boat'' Games * ''Defiance'' (video game), a 2013 tie-in with the TV series ''Defiance'' * ''Defiance'' (1997 video game), a first-person shooter for Windows * ''Defiance'', an expansion campaign for the computer game '' Independence War'' * '' Legacy of Kain: Defiance'', a 2003 video game Literature * ''Defiance'' (book), a 1951 memoir by Savitri Devi * ''Defiance'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Don Brown * ''Defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parlez-Vous Hate?
''Parlez-Vous Hate?'' is the fourteenth album by Luxembourgish neofolk project Rome. It was released on January 29, 2021, on Trisol Music Group. Background ''Parlez-Vous Hate?'' was released shortly after Rome's previous album, ''The Lone Furrow''. Project leader Jérôme Reuter wrote that he was able to release this album so quickly because of the free time due to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling his live performances, giving him more free time to spend in the studio. Two singles from the album were released on YouTube prior to the album release: "Panzerschokolade", on December 31, 2020, and "Parlez-Vous Hate?", on January 21, 2021. Critical reception ''Parlez-Vous Hate?'' was largely well received by critics. It received favourable write-ups in publications such as Amboss-Mag, Antyradio Antyradio is a Polish radio network broadcasting all genres of rock music, although mostly broadcasting contemporary rock hits. The current owner of the network is Eurozet. Antyradio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lone Furrow
''The Lone Furrow'' is the 16th studio album by the Luxembourgish music act Rome (band), Rome, released on 28 August 2020 by Trisol Music Group. It is in the neofolk genre and addresses themes of spiritual decay, with influence from writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche and George Orwell. The album features several guest vocalists from Heavy metal music, heavy metal bands and critics have said it may appeal to heavy metal fans. Critics said it was a return to the style of Rome's early records, which they described as "martial", while keeping some elements from the more recent albums. Music and lyrics The press release for ''The Lone Furrow'' says the album is targeted against the "despiritualized modern age" and promotes a cultural heritage present in Hermann Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tacitus, George Orwell, Ovid, the ''Prose Edda'', W. B. Yeats and Charles Baudelaire. It says the aim is to convince listeners that the world is larger than any idea about it and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro
''Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro'' is the twelfth album by Rome, released on January 18, 2019 on Trisol Music Group The Trisol Music Group, GmbH (or Trisol), is a German business group and record label headquartered in Dieburg. Owning multiple sublabels, they specialize in producing musical works pertaining to darkwave, dark folk, gothic rock, deat .... Track listing References 2019 albums Rome (band) albums {{2010s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hyperion Machine
''The Hyperion Machine'' is the tenth studio album by the Luxembourgish music act Rome, released on 12 August 2016 by Trisol Music Group. Release Trisol Music Group released ''The Hyperion Machine'' on 12 August 2016. It was Rome's tenth studio album in ten years. Reception ''Laut.de''s Toni Hennig said ''The Hyperion Machine'' breaks with Rome's last few records by not being a historically themed concept album, but it addresses some of the same subjects. These include the treatment of Jews and political opponents by Nazi Germany in the songs "The Secret Germany (For Paul Celan)", which references Paul Celan's "Todesfuge", and "Die Mörder Mühsams", which is about the anarchist Erich Mühsam. Marco De Baptistis of ' described the historical and literary references—which include Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the novel ''Hyperion'' by Friedrich Hölderlin—as romantic, ghostly and hallucinatory. Hennig described the album as musically divided in two halves, where the first has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Genet
Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's Journal'' and ''Our Lady of the Flowers'' and the plays ''The Balcony'', ''The Maids'' and ''The Screens''. Biography Early life Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before placing him for adoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, in the Nièvre department of central France. His foster family was headed by a carpenter and, according to Edmund White's biography, was loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft. After the death of his foster mother, Genet was placed with an elderly couple but remained with them less than two years. Accord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Camus
Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include '' The Stranger'', '' The Plague'', ''The Myth of Sisyphus'', '' The Fall'', and '' The Rebel''. Camus was born in French Algeria to '' Pieds Noirs'' parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at '' Combat'', an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Evola
Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue. Evola regarded his values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic, and defiantly reactionary. An eccentric thinker in Fascist Italy, he also had ties to Nazi Germany; in the post-war era, he was known as an ideological mentor of the Italian neo-fascist and militant right. Evola was born in Rome. He served as an artillery officer in the First World War. He became a Dada artist but gave up painting in his twenties. He said he considered suicide until he had a revelation while reading a Buddhist text. In the 1920s he delved into the occult; he wrote on Western esotericism and of Eastern mysticism, developing his doctrine of "magical idealism". His writings blend various ideas of German idealism, Eastern doctrines, traditionalism and the interwar Conservative Revolution, with themes such as Hermeticism, the metaphysic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Ferré
Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the mid-seventies. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson repertoire, including " Avec le temps", "C'est extra", "Jolie Môme" and "Paris canaille". Early life Son of Joseph Ferré, French staff manager at Monte-Carlo Casino, and Marie Scotto, a Monégasque dressmaker of Italian descent from Piedmont, he had a sister, Lucienne, two years older. Léo Ferré had an early interest in music. At the age of seven, he joined the choir of the Monaco Cathedral and discovered polyphony through singing pieces by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria. His un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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