Romare - Live Sessions 1

Romare - Live Sessions 1Romare (real name Archie Fairhurst) returns to Ninja Tune with a brand new EP, Live Sessions 1. The EP is a collection of live, stripped back tracks recorded at different times in his home studio and on the road this year. Last years critically acclaimed LP, Love Songs: Part 2 gained high praise from the likes of Evening Standard, Mixmag, DJ Mag and was described as experimental psychedelic love songs bound together by gelatinous alien synths and a

is the sound he heard in the future

He took the parts

A native of South Los Angeles

as well as an array of writers

this radiant breakbeat love letter is the first vocal performance Maya has recorded in many years

” It’s the juxtaposition

keep me alive

with a sense of aching urgency like never before

a title summing up the unique and eccentric vision of a musical artist as obsessed with the clothing of the Victorian era as he is with the music of the future

the music is every bit the equal of its pictured parts (as is evidenced by listening to it on the simultaneously-released cd instead)

What is not made clear in the ‘counting is the thousands of Black and Brown people were caught in the colonial crossfire of Empire's endless appetite

More important than the individual histories