Monday, March 28th 2011
News: Rome
Watch Danger Mouse, Jack White & More Discuss ‘Rome’ Project
A promo video debuted today for Rome, Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s multiple-collaboration joint musical experiment, furthering our anticipation for the May 17 release.
In the five minute clip, Jack White, Norah Jones and the project masterminds further explain their involvement:
The project, which was recorded in the city of its title, has been in motion since 2006. A little while back we introduced a portion of Jack’s offering, Two Against One. Also, if you’re so inclined, you can listen to a four-minute collage of music from the release here.
Danger Mouse spoke with the Guardian on the collaboration choices, explaining Jones was chosen due to her ability to “be soft, not polarizing,” while White’s participation came as a surprise:
“I played some of the music for Jack White when I was on tour shortly after doing the first session, just to show him what I was doing, because at the time everyone thought I was just a hip-hop guy, or whatever. He liked it, but at the time I wasn’t even thinking of using him – you know, it’s Jack White. But in the end, I thought, he’s really into it – why not? He tried it in different voices – a high voice, a low voice, and I thought, why don’t we leave them all in? There’s a bunch of his vocals on Rose With The Broken Neck, and it doesn’t always sound like him – sometimes you’re like, is that Jack or not?”
May can’t come soon enough.
goddamn The Good The Bad is like my favorite soundtrack of all time, so the fact that these guys are listening to all that and making there own stuff out of that influence…. God im excited.
Samesies