OR, to give it its full title, Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi present Rome starring Jack White and Norah Jones.
After associations with Cee-Lo Green in Gnarls Barkley, Damon Albarn for Gorillaz’ Demon Days and The Shins’ James Mercer in Broken Bells, Danger Mouse experiments once more with new partners – and yet again this musical magpie has found a perfect nest for hatching his ceaseless creativity.
Danger Mouse, real name Brian Burton (no wonder he prefers his pseudonym), shares a love of analogue recording techniques, classic Italian film music and spaghetti westerns with composer Daniele Luppi. So much so that they reassembled the Marc4 backing band and Alessandro Alessandroni’s I Cantori Moderni choir from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West and booked out Rome’s cavernous Forum Studios for a vintage elegant sound.
More a labour of rekindled love than a pastiche, Rome has a glint of old Clint but burns anew, its light and shade intensified by the smooth Jones and the rougher rock strains of White.
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