Rome
The famed producer teams with the Italian composer to attempt to salvage the "soundtrack without a movie" concept album. Jack White and Norah Jones guest.
Like the films whose music inspired Rome, the album’s creation has a backstory: Bonded by an appreciation for the film soundtracks of Ennio Morricone, Gianfranco and Gian Piero Reverberi, and others, Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton and Daniele Luppi first set out to make their own take on that cinematic sound in 2005.…
What’s most shocking about this long-gestating collaboration between the increasingly polymath-tastic Danger Mouse and…
Rome, a long-gestating collaboration between producer Brian Joseph Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and Italian composer Daniele Luppi, pays tribute to Italian cinema’s spaghetti Western era with the subtlety of a revolver to the forehead.
When Chuck Klosterman referred to Danger Mouse as the “D.J. Auteur” in the New York Times Magazine nearly five years ago, many key elements for Rome were already in place.
From the echoing strums and heavenly voice that introduce ‘Theme Of Rome’, it’s clear that Danger Mouse’s latest production is worlds apart from his previous collaborations.
Five years in the making, Danger Mouse's first attempt at a spaghetti western soundtrack lacks character, writes <strong>Killian Fox</strong>
It's a minutely detailed and evocative recreation of what, to generations of filmgoers, will always be the sound of the Old West.
Does Brian Burton's latest adventure provide a pointer for what he could do as U2's producer? By <strong>Caspar Llewellyn Smith</strong>
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi is a delicious album with modern warmth. Rating: * * * *
Lush, orchestral, darkly romantic soundtrack to a non-existent film. Review by Peter Culshaw