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Monday 23 May, 2011

Rome by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi ft. Jack White & Norah Jones | Album Review

Rome by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi ft Jack White and Norah Jones | thetruejoe90.com

The thing I like most out of a majority of collaborative works I have heard is that you tend to get the best from one person, the best from another and then they join forces to produce something which is far better than what could have been done by one person alone. Here is Rome.

After a string of massive successes such as Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells and numerous production works, Danger Mouse has come together with Italian production wizard Daniele Luppi who has previously worked with ‘Mouse before. His material is scattered throughout the film scores of many independent films and his core ability is creating imaginative soundtracks to peoples lives.

On this charming album the remarkable producers present the talented vocalists Jack White and Norah Jones. Each of them bringing an added vibe to each of the tracks that they perform on. Rome is not entirely a sing and dance record but with small interludes, short instrumentals as well as fragments of poetic wonder from our multi-award winning singer and songwriters. The physical music is performed by the Roma based B.I.M. Orchestra with the eight person choir, Cantori Moderni Di Alessandro Alessandroni also from Italy. The band comprise of Gege’ Munari (Drums), Roberto Podio (Percussion), Dario Rosciglione (Bass), Luciano Ciccaglioni (Guitars), Antonello Vannucchi (Organ) and Gilda Butta’ (Celesta). With this immensity the songs indeed have a huge encompassing warmth, depth and an abundance of enchanting sounds.

As for our vocalists, firstly Mr White on The Rose With A Broken Neck sings an adorable piece of rhyme. Two Against One pushes out some passionate and soulful heartache which you hear on some of White’s slower numbers. The pain and suffering he can replicate in his voice is awesome.

Norah Jones on Season’s Trees just blows most of the records in the commercial charts today totally out of the running. A lazy and unconcerning melancholy to carry you on this magic carpet ride is spellbinding – which is quite descriptive of the entire album. The swagger in her voice on Black is like a lullaby. Not one iota of darkness on this track at all, Problem Queen is similar but with a sprinkle jazz laced over it.

The only negative aspect about this album is the fact that with all of these tracks the duration of Rome in it’s entirety is quite short, but that just means that with whatever time you may have to listen to it, you may have enough time to listen to it again.

This should be treasured.

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi present Rome starring Jack White & Norah Jones is released by Parlophone records and is out now.