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SUMMARY:Romare
LOCATION:The Independent
DESCRIPTION:Romare is bringing his live set and DJ tour to The Independent 
 in San Francisco on Saturday\, February 6th\, 2027!\n\nABOUT ROMARE:\nAs R
 omare\, Archie Fairhurst’s working practice is rooted in collage\, build
 ing vivid new forms out of existing material. Playful and immediate\, but 
 also deeply researched and compelling\, his albums and performances reachi
 ng back to 2012 unfurl as a patchwork of inspirations and obsessive lines 
 of enquiry made up of a global panoply of source material.\n\nThe clue is 
 in the name – Fairhurst called himself Romare in tribute to Romare Beard
 en\, the lauded American multi-disciplinary artist most renowned for his i
 ncisive collages. In Bearden’s process Fairhurst saw a way to approach t
 he infinite pool of electronic music production\, channelling his wealth o
 f music knowledge into creating music from existing sonic material and bed
 ding themes into his juxtapositions for a more considered approach to samp
 ling.\n\nNo music lover sticks on one sound their whole lives\, and so nat
 urally Fairhurst’s areas of focus have evolved over time from the breako
 ut impact of his 2012 debut on Black Acre\, Meditations On Afrocentrism\, 
 through a run of albums on Ninja Tune reaching up to 2020’s reflection o
 n place and belonging\, Home. Projections is a direct homage to Bearden’
 s work\, and the Love Songs releases draw on the rich seam of romantic mus
 ic as a jump-off point. Having lived a nomadic life himself growing up\, h
 is source material has moved around over time\, but increasingly the sampl
 ing becomes more opaque and enmeshed within other instrumentation which ro
 unds out the Romare sound. 2022’s Fantasy expands on that idea with a mo
 re abstract approach\, folding elements from 1970s fantasy cinema into his
  distinctive strain of rhythmic\, off-centre electronica and heralding the
  start of his own label\, You See.\n\nFor all the considered concepts and 
 unusual arrangements\, Romare’s music is dance music at heart\, and it r
 emains a natural transplant into the live and club environment. At times F
 airhurst has pulled together a full line-up to render his music on stage 
 – something of a call back to his roots playing guitar and drums in band
 s – but elsewhere he’s at home sequencing and arranging his music solo
 \, re-moulding album material in the moment with the flexibility which dan
 ce music so often requires. Equally\, he has DJ’d prolifically around th
 e world with an omnivorous approach which serves as a logical extension of
  his studio craft\, balancing hidden corners of historical investigation w
 ith the kinetic impulse of modern club music.\n\nMinimum age: 18+\n\nBolet
 os: https://ra.co/events/2546222
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