ROME - A PASSAGE TO RHODESIA (10TH ANNIVERSARY) [LIMITED] LP

Special Vinyl re-release for the 10TH ANNIVERSARY of this album!

Oxblood 180g 12" vinyl

180g audiophile vinyl – German pressing!

Sturdy cardboard sleeve

Printed inner sleeve and containing all lyrics

Hand-numbered certificate

Signed by Jérôme Reuter

Limited to 500 copies

‘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 supre- macy 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.

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. Mastermind Jerome Reuter has accomplished a great swirling devil of a record, an epic and tragic masterpiece of consider- able scale, rich in theme and philosophic inquiry.

TRACKS: A1 Electrocuting an Elephant (Vinyl Edit) A2 The Ballad of the fed Flame Lily A3 One Fire A4 A Farewell to Europe A5 The Fever Tree A6 Hate Us and see if we mind A7 The River Eternal (Vinyl Edit) B1 A Country denied B2 Lullaby for Georgie B3 In a Wilderness of Spite (Vinyl Edit) B4 Bread and Wine (Vinyl Edit) B5 The Past is another Country