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DAVID ALEXANDER Rome (2011 Japanese 15-track promotional
sample CD album, picture sleeve booklet, obi-strip & sample stickered
back insert. In a digital age where music is produced, consumed and
discarded in the blink of an eye, 'Rome' is brilliant anachronism: a
defiantly analogue album that took five years to perfect and has been
made to pass the test of time. Brian Burton and Daniele Luppi met in
Los Angeles in 2004, when Burton, better known as Danger Mouse,
had just created amedia storm with 'The Grey Album' and Luppi, a
composer from Italy, was receiving acclaim for his album 'An Italian
Story', which revisited the cinematic sounds of his childhood. United
by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, they decided to
create something special. After an intense songwriting period – writing
separately at first, and then together as the songs evolved – they
travelled to Rome in October 2006. Luppi made some calls and they
assembled the original musicians from films such as 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. Most of the musicians were in their seventies
and hadn't worked together for several decades. The next step was
finding two lead vocalists who could do justice to the songs [three of
which been written for a man and three for a woman]. While on tour
with Gnarls Barkley, Burton met Jack White of the White
Stripes: 'I played him some of the
tracks, not even thinking I'd be able to get him on it.' A year
later, White recorded his contributions in Nashville. 'We thought it would be really interesting to
combine his voice, which is very rock n' roll, with this polished and
elegant music,' says Luppi. 'He nailed it
perfectly.' White's counterpart, in a revelatory turn, is
Norah Jones, who flew to Burton's LA studio from New York
to sing on 'Season's Trees', 'Black' and 'Problem Queen'. 'I really love the way her voice
sounds,' says Burton. 'I
knew this was a little bit different for her, but she was really up for
it.' TOCP-66991)
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