Romare

As Romare, Archie Fairhurst's working practice is rooted in building vivid new forms out of existing material. Playful but also deeply researched, his albums and performances are patchworks of inspirations and obsessive lines of enquiry made from a global panoply of source material.The clue is in the name - Fairhurst called himself Romare in tribute to Romare Bearden, the lauded American multi-disciplinary artist renowned for his incisive collages. In Bearden's process Fairhurst saw a way to approach the infinite pool of electronic music production with a more considered approach to sampling,...