Rome (album)

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Rome
Studio album by Danger Mouse , Daniele Luppi

Publication
(s)

2011

Label (s) Parlophone

Format (s)

LP , CD , download

Genre (s)

Alternative rock

Title (number)

15th

running time

approx. 35 minutes

Rome is an album by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi from 2011. Stylistically, Rome is often assigned to alternative rock , but it is primarily an homage to the soundtracks of the spaghetti westerns from the 1960s and 1970s.

Authorship, recording and publication

All the songs on Rome were composed , arranged and produced by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi . The sound engineer was Fabio Patrignani. The recordings for the album took a total of five years. The following musicians were involved:

Was published Rome in 2011 by the label Parlophone , it appeared as LP , CD and MP3 . As singles were Two Against One ( B-side : Black ) and The Rose with a Broken Neck (B-side: Season's Trees ) decoupled.

Musical concept

Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi for Rome were inspired by the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s and '70s. In particular, they took the soundtracks by Ennio Morricone for films like Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod and Zwei Gloriges Malunken as models. Some of the musicians involved in these soundtracks , such as Alessandro Alessandroni and Edda Dell'Orso , can also be heard on Rome . The recordings took place in the Forum Music Village in Rome, a studio that was co-founded by Ennio Morricone. Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi organized contemporary instruments for these recordings .

Daniele Luppi said of his enthusiasm for spaghetti western soundtracks: “I've been exposed to them since I was a child. The television showed spaghetti westerns every weekend. I was only five, but I was so on my head that I thought, 'Oh, it's Sunday - time for two glorious scoundrels '. I really absorbed those sounds. ”And Danger Mouse said of Daniele Luppi:“ He had just moved from Italy to Los Angeles to make soundtracks. One day he came to me and saw my collection of old Italian film music. He knew all about this stuff, but I think he was impressed that I had so much of it. "

Guest appearances

In Rome are Jack White and Norah Jones as a guest musician to hear. White sings on three songs for which he also wrote the lyrics . Jones also sings on three songs, and Danger Mouse wrote her lyrics. Danger Mouse justified the decision in favor of Jones and White with the fact that he was looking for a "soft" female voice and a male voice that "can express fear".

title

The following songs can be heard on Rome :

  1. Theme of Rome ( Luppi / Burton )
  2. The Rose with a Broken Neck (Luppi / Burton / White )
  3. Morning Fog - Interlude (Luppi / Burton)
  4. Season's Trees (Luppi / Burton)
  5. Her Hollow Ways - Interlude (Luppi / Burton)
  6. Roman Blue (Luppi / Burton)
  7. Two Against One (Luppi / Burton / White)
  8. The Gambling Priest (Luppi / Burton)
  9. The World - Interlude (Luppi / Burton)
  10. Black (Luppi / Burton)
  11. The Matador Has Fallen (Luppi / Burton)
  12. Morning Fog (Luppi / Burton)
  13. Problem Queen (Luppi / Burton)
  14. Her Hollow Ways (Luppi / Burton)
  15. The World (Luppi / Burton / White)

Charts and reception

Rome peaked at # 11 on Billboard's album charts .

The reviews of Rome are mixed. The music database Allmusic lists the album with three and a half stars out of five. The music magazine Rolling Stone also awarded three and a half out of five stars. The New Musical Express, on the other hand, rated Rome with eight out of ten possible points.

The Guardian's music critic Killian Fox criticized the fact that the album lacks the eccentric qualities of Ennio Morricone's recordings. Markus Schneider paints the picture of a mediocre album in the Berliner Zeitung : "The tone never rises [...] into the ridiculously grandiose indulgence of the originals, it never plunges into shrill depths". He states “trotting melancholy and vastness without a real panorama” and discovers “only familiar melodies instead of dramatic melodies”. With the album, producer Burton is "just spreading an elegant collection of very expected moods". Hanspeter Künzler, on the other hand, calls the album in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung "an atmospheric homage, which in its subtlety [...] goes beyond mere imitation", but it could have used "one or two spicy experiments more".

In the Musikexpress , Thomas Weiland contrasts the music with computer music : "These incredibly warm-sounding strings, this bass sound also known from Serge Gainsbourg , these finely incorporated voices and the complete absence of hectic pace refine all instrumentals on this album." The duo from Jack He describes White and Norah Jones as "the most unusual couple in pop that you can imagine". On laut.de, Alexander Kroll draws attention to the interludes, which initially gave the impression that the album “takes too many breather”, but these revealed themselves “as connections that give the music space to develop”. Simon Price from the Independent comes - citing the original title of Zwei glorrich Malunken - to the following conclusion: "All good, no bad, and never ugly."

Trivia

The song Black can be heard in the series Breaking Bad ( season 4 / episode 13 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b www.nme.com: Rome (review)
  2. a b c Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi: Rome (Liner Notes)
  3. a b www.theguardian.com: Rome (review)
  4. www.discogs.com: Rome (release details)
  5. www.discogs.com: Danger Mouse (discography)
  6. a b www.rollingstone.com: Rome (review)
  7. a b c www.theguardian.com: Rome (Interview with Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi)
  8. a b www.allmusic.com: Rome (review)
  9. Markus Schneider: For a handful of spaghetti - "Rome": Danger Mouse's homage to Ennio Morricone . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 18, 2011, p. 29.
  10. Hanspeter Künzler: In the footsteps of Ennio . In: Website of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 27, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2019.
  11. ^ Thomas Weiland: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi: Rome . In: Website of the Musikexpresses , May 19, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2019.
  12. Alexander Kroll: The realest sample in the world . In: laut.de , May 13, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2019.
  13. www.independent.co.uk: Rome (review)
  14. www.esquire.com: Music at Breaking Bad