@ Sleeping Village
Saturday, February 13
Metro Presents…
Romare (Live)
$20 Adv. / $22 Day of / 21+ / Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM
As Romare, Archie Fairhurst’s working practice is rooted in collage, building vividnew forms out of existing material. Playful and immediate, but also deeply researched and compelling, his albums and performances reaching back to 2012 unfurl as a patchwork of inspirations and obsessive lines of enquiry made up of a global panoply of source material.
For all the considered concepts and unusual arrangements, Romare’s music is dance music at heart, and it remains a natural transplant into the live and club environment. At times Fairhurst has pulled together a full line-up to render his musicon stage – something of a call back to his roots playing guitar and drums in bands –but elsewhere he’s at home sequencing and arranging his music solo, re-moulding album material in the moment with the flexibility which dance music so often requires. Equally, he has DJ’d prolifically around the world with an omnivorous approach which serves as a logical extension of his studio craft, balancing hidden corners of historical investigation with the kinetic impulse of modern club music.
