"A Passage to Rhodesia" is ROME's tenth album, but it's safe to say it's on… Read Full Bio ↴"A Passage to Rhodesia" is ROME's tenth album, but it's safe to say it's one of the most important releases in its long-standing career. The album unites instant dark folk classics such as “A Farewell to Europe” and “One Fire” with ambient collages in the best industrial and experimental traditions -most notably on the exclusive additional album “House of Stone”. Mastermind Jerome Reuter has accomplished a great swirling devil of a record, an epic and tragic masterpiece of considerable scale, rich in theme and philosophic inquiry.
"A Passage to Rhodesia" is set against the backdrop of the Bush War (Bush as in jungle, not the American presidents) in the country named after imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The protagonists - a generation of Whites in Black Africa fighting and dying for a lost cause - are caught in a web of blinkered complacency and radical prejudice. Jerome Reuter takes an open-hearted look at the tragedies, insanities and absurdities of war-torn Rhodesia in the dog days of white supremacy in southern Africa. “A Passage to Rhodesia” is a remarkable, yet deeply disturbing odyssey driven by a strange love for the country and its people, a witness-bearing of the rarest courage.
"A Passage to Rhodesia" is set against the backdrop of the Bush War (Bush as in jungle, not the American presidents) in the country named after imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The protagonists - a generation of Whites in Black Africa fighting and dying for a lost cause - are caught in a web of blinkered complacency and radical prejudice. Jerome Reuter takes an open-hearted look at the tragedies, insanities and absurdities of war-torn Rhodesia in the dog days of white supremacy in southern Africa. “A Passage to Rhodesia” is a remarkable, yet deeply disturbing odyssey driven by a strange love for the country and its people, a witness-bearing of the rarest courage.
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A Passage to Rhodesia
Rome Lyrics
A Country Denied O, you; my lowland brother What did we really know of…
A Farewell to Europe So long, Europe You've been good to me But halting and res…
Bread and Wine Say we're here to reclaim our past Though we knew it…
Hate Us and See If We Mind We could never have won this; We were fighting lions Now…
In a Wilderness of Spite Down, To the river down, They carried poor Rhodesia. D…
Lullaby for Georgie At the first light of dawn, I get my clothes out…
One Fire We won't reveal our ailments, and what haunts our sleep…
The Ballad of the Red Flame Lily On this day, All the trees in Rhodesia are aflame As the…
The Fever Tree Now the mourners file in Let the ceremony begin Unlock the…
The River Eternal Into the glowing darkness, We travel the shining black serp…