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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) 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. Crucial to the completion of Rome has been the enlistment of two lead vocalists who not only do justice to but complete the three songs each written for a man and a woman. While on tour with Gnarls Barkley, Burton met Jack White and a year later, White recorded his contributions The Rose With The Broken Neck, Two Against One and The World in Nashville. White s counterpart, in a revelatory turn, is Norah Jones, who flew to Burton s L.A. studio from New York to sing on Season’s Trees, Black and Problem Queen. With acclaimed director and photographer Chris Milk brought in as “Visual Director”, half a decade of hard work and unstinting perfectionism would draw to a close as the album and package were completed: it’s an ambitious work with a uniquely modern sound achieved through traditional, vintage means. It is, above all, a fully realized album, perfectly formed and hauntingly beautiful.
Welcome to Rome.

ARTIST: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
TITLE: Rome
LABEL: Capitol
RELEASE DATE: May 17, 2011
TIME: 35:12 min.
WEB: http://www.romealbum.com/

01. Theme of Rome [02:21]
02. The Rose with a Broken Neck [03:23]
03. Morning Fog (interlude) [00:39]
04. Season’s Trees [03:12]
05. Her Hollow Ways (interlude) [00:57]
06. Roman Blue [03:13]
07. Two Against One [02:21]
08. The Gambling Priest [02:03]
09. The World (interlude) [01:02]
10. Black [03:32]
11. The Matador Has Fallen [01:47]
12. Morning Fog [02:06]
13. Problem Queen [02:37]
14. Her Hollow Ways [02:30]
15. The World [03:29]

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi (feat. jack white) - Two Against One

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