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Album review: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, โRomeโ
Itโs one of the yearโs most adventurous unions, this teaming of Italian composer Daniele Luppi and Danger Mouse, the producer and artist who is one half of both Gnarls Barkley and Broken Bells, with help from
capricious doer of cool things Jack White.
The end result, โRome,โ is vast and ambitious and atmospheric and weird: the spaghetti western reinvented as a hipster art project. Itโs a jumble of interludes and semi-conventional tracks (such as Whiteโs spindly โTwo Against Oneโ or the spacey indie-country song โBlack,โ one of several tracks here featuring Norah Jones) with the feel of a soundtrack.
In addition to White and Jones, Luppi and Danger Mouse recruited a number of Ennio Morricone old-timers, many of them veteran musicians and singers from such classic Morricone scores as โThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly.โ They lend the proceedings an equal measure of liveliness and sobering authenticity.
โ Allison Stewart
Recommended tracks: โTheme of Rome,โ โBlack,โ โTwo Against Oneโ
By 11:01 AM ET, 05/13/2011
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