Artist Detailed Info: Roemer

Benjamin Roemer Seidl calls Berlin-Neukölln home but hails from Leesburg, Virginia by way of Tennessee and Missouri. After moving to Germany in 2005 with a suitcase and an acoustic guitar, he married composer and artist, Jasmin Seidl. His early years in Berlin were spent serving a protestant church as a minister while writing songs in his free time. Roemer’s first full length album was recorded in his kitchen with Jasmin and a handful of friends from the Berlin songwriting scene. Love Loss Lies & Loneliness in early 2017.


The follow up EP There Goes Jericho released in 2018 and, after a slight change in career, Roemer released his second album I Can't Impress You With Words in 2019. These melancholy indie folk songs — mixed with existential crisis, evangelical quagmires, and a take on alt-right extremism — paved a way into the stream of songwriting that deals with faith, doubt and politics not unlike David Bazan, William Wilson, KelseyBrae, Robert Deeble, Derek Webb, Waterdeep, Opal Hush, Shoecraft, The Porter's Gate and Common Hymnal.


In the midst of coronavirus, lockdown, social distancing and the unknown, Roemer released his latest EP Straight Bars and Guns on Old Bear Records. The EP is made up of five songs that delve into the nuanced conversations around gun violence in North America. Recorded in Old Bear Studios in Batavia, NY just outside of Buffalo, Straight Bars and Guns is experimental while paying homage to folk protest song writers of the past.

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