Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome

Artist: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
Title: Rome
Released: 2011
Genre: Indie, Rock, Alternative, Ambient, Trip-Hop

Some five years in the making, the conception of Rome actually dates back even further, to the 2004 meeting of Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse and Italian composer/arranger Daniele Luppi. Burton was emerging from the aftermath of the media storm around his Grey Album and beginning work on Gorillaz now multi-platinum and Grammy winning Demon Days. Luppi was amassing acclaim for his album An Italian Story, which paid tribute to the cinematic sounds that shaped his childhood, while writing music for the screen (Sex In The City, Nine, etc.) and soon thereafter contributing arrangements to Burton projects including Gnarls Barkley, Dark Night of the Soul and Broken Bells.

United in their shared passion for classic Italian film music, Burton and Luppi have created a record like no other: Intense songwriting periods both together and apart and travels to Rome during which Luppi reunited for the first time in decades original musicians from the scores of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West including the legendary Marc 4 backing band and Alessandro Alessandroni’s ‘I Cantori Moderni’ choir laid the groundwork. Recording took place in Rome’s cavernous Forum Studios formerly Ortophonic Studios, founded, amongst others, by the great Ennio Morricone — employing vintage equipment, for which Burton and Luppi would pay with bottles of wine, and making every effort to replicate the recording practices of the 1960s/70s golden age, recording live to tape, with no electronics, computers or 21st-century effects.

Tracklist:
01. Theme Of “Rome” [2:21]
02. The Rose With A Broken Neck (feat. Jack White) [3:23]
03. Morning Fog (Interlude) [0:39]
04. Season’s Tree (feat. Norah Jones) [3:12]
05. Her Hollow Ways (Interlude) [0:57]
06. Roman Blue [3:13]
07. Two Against One (feat. Jack White) [2:21]
08. The Gambling Priest [2:03]
09. The World (Interlude) [1:02]
10. Black (feat. Norah Jones) [3:32]
11. The Matador Has Fallen [1:47]
12. Morning Fog [2:06]
13. Problem Queen (feat. Norah Jones) [2:37]
14. Her Hollow Ways [2:30]
15. The World (feat. Jack White) [3:29]

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