Live Review: The Range and Rome Fortune with Zoolab at Barboza 5/8/16

Source: blog.kexp.org --- Saturday, May 14, 2016
all photos by Brittany Feenstra If Brooklyn producer The Range and atlanta rapper Rome Fortune have any one thing in common, it’s an unfettered line of sight towards a marvelous horizon. Both artists make music that is wrought with present-tense turmoil, but the future always looks brighter – and not only that, it looks magnanimous. The Range does it with atmosphere. His new album, Potential , out now on Domino, is built around samples of Youtube artists, struggling to get noticed, struggling to maintain some semblance of self while looking towards the dream. The Range reigns this collection in brilliantly, accenting the struggle and showing the brightness of the self-knowledge beyond. Meanwhile, Rome does it with poetry. His debut studio album, Jerome Raheem Fortune , out now on Fool’s Gold, bleeds personal narrative. It tells the story of a man struggling to see the big picture in a world where just making ends meet seems arduous. But around the corner, beyond all the distraction and nonsense, there is true fulfillment. It’s really no surprise that the two reach a shared place with The Range’s remix of Rome’s “Paid Back Loans”, where the two give us one of the best tunes of the year. Rome’s foundation sets the stage with timeless wisdom, then The Range builds on it with swirling texture and a euphoria that can really only come from understanding. Thus, it makes perfect sense that these two are co-headlining a tour together, wor ...