Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi Rome

• Theme of Rome
• The Rose with the Broken Neck
• Morning Fog (Interlude)
• Season's Trees
• Her Hollow Ways (Interlude)
• Roman Blue
• Two Against One
• The Gambling Priest
• The World (Interlude)
• Black
• The Matador Has Fallen
• Morning Fog
• Problem Queen
• Her Hollow Ways
• The World

It took nearly five years for Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi to perfect Rome, a collaborative album that finds the producer and Italian composer paying homage to classic Italian film scores. It began taking shape after the two met and worked together on other projects, such as Luppi providing arrangements for Danger Mouse's Gnarls Barkley and Broken Bells albums. They then started writing the compositions for Rome, both together and apart, and even travelled to Rome's Forum Studios to reunite the musicians who played on the scores for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West. After some intense recording sessions abroad, Luppi and Danger Mouse searched for two vocalists, one male and one female, to serve as the lead singers on three tracks each. They chose to enlist the help of Jack White and Norah Jones, who here round out an album that is influenced equally by cinema and pop music.

Abstract by Andrew Martin