Rome (Album)
Rome is an album by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi from the year 2011. Stylistically Rome is often associated with alternative rock, but it is above all a tribute to the soundtracks of spaghetti westerns from the 60s and 70s.
Authorship, recording and publication
All songs were composed to Rome by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, arranged and produced. Sound engineer was Fabio Patrignani. The recordings for the album took a total of five years. The following musicians were involved:
- Luciano Ciccaglioni (guitar)
- Dario Rosciglione ( bass)
- Gege Munari (drums, percussion )
- Roberto Podio ( percussion)
- Antonello Vannucchi ( organ, piano, harpsichord, celesta )
- Gilda Butta (harpsichord, celesta )
- Daniele Luppi ( Tubular Bells )
- Edda Dell 'Orso (soprano )
- Cantori Moderni di Alessandro Alessandroni (chorus )
- B.I.M. Orchestra (Orchestra)
- Jack White (vocals )
- Norah Jones ( vocals)
Rome was published in 2011 by the Parlophone label, it was released on LP, CD and download. And The Rose with a Broken Neck ( B-side: Season 's Trees ): As Singles Two Against One ( Black B- side) were released.
Musical concept
Danger Mouse and Daniele were inspired to Luppi Rome from the spaghetti westerns of the 60s and 70s. In particular, the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone for films such as Play me the song of death and Bad and the Ugly, they took as a model. Some of the musicians involved in these soundtracks such as Alessandro Alessandroni and Edda Dell ' are to listen even to Rome. The recordings took place in the Forum Music Village in Rome instead, a studio which was co-founded by Ennio Morricone. Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi organized contemporary instruments for this recording.
Daniele Luppi said to his enthusiasm for spaghetti western soundtracks: "I was exposed to them since my early childhood. The television showed every weekend spaghetti western. I was only five, but even so it, that I thought, ' Oh, it's Sunday - Time for Bad and the Ugly '. I have this sounds really absorbed " Danger Mouse And Daniele Luppi said about ". He had just moved from Italy to Los Angeles to make soundtracks. One day he came to me and saw my collection of old Italian film music. He knew all about this stuff, but I think he was impressed that I had so much of it. "
Guest appearances
In Rome Jack White and Norah Jones can be heard as a guest musician. White sings on three songs, for which he also wrote the lyrics. Jones also sings on three songs, their lyrics wrote Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse explained the decision for Jones and White so that he had a "soft " female voice and a male voice that can " bring fear to the term" sought.
Title
In Rome the following songs are heard:
Reception
Rome reached in the album charts by Billboard as the highest position number 11
The reviews have been mixed about Rome. The music database Allmusic leads it with three and a half out of five stars. Even the music magazine Rolling Stone awarded three and a half stars out of five. The music critic of The Guardian criticized the fact that the album lacked the eccentric of the recordings by Ennio Morricone. The music magazine New Musical Express, however, rated Rome with eight out of ten possible points. And the critics of the Independent came - the original title of Bad and the Ugly quoting - to the following conclusion: " All good, no bad, and never ugly. "
Trivia
The song Black can be heard in the series Breaking Bad (Season 4/Folge 13).