''Rome'' is an album written by the American

music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

Danger Mouse Danger Mouse may refer (or appear in) to: * ''Danger Mouse'' (1981 TV series), a 1981 British animated television series * ''Danger Mouse'' (2015 TV series), a 2015 reboot of the British animated television series * Danger Mouse (musician) (born ...

and the Italian

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Daniele Luppi Daniele Luppi is an Italian composer and music producer who has been active since around 1999. He is an Emmy nominated film and television composer and has worked with the likes of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, and John Legend. ...

. The album took five years to make and was inspired by the music from

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s. The album was recorded using vintage equipment and, as well as featuring musicians who recorded Spaghetti Western

soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack o ...

s, also features a reunited Cantori Moderni – the choir put together by Alessandro Alessandroni – that performed on the soundtrack to '' The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. The album also includes

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

by the American singers Jack White on the tracks "The Rose with the Broken Neck", "Two Against One" and "The World", and Norah Jones on the tracks "Season's Trees", "Black" and "Problem Queen". White additionally chose to provide lyrics for his three songs.

Track listing

Charts

Credits

Musicians

*Gegè Munari - Drums and percussion *Dario Rosciglione - Upright and electric bass *Luciano Ciccaglioni - Acoustic and electric guitars *Antonello Vannucchi - Celesta, harpsichord, organ and piano *Roberto Podio - Percussion *

Gilda Buttà Gilda Buttà (born July 29, 1959, in Patti, Sicily) is an Italian pianist. After studying piano at "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Milan, she won the Franz Liszt Prize in 1976, and started a concert pianist career. She has recorded several film s ...

- Celesta and harpsichord *Cantori Moderni - Choir *

Edda Dell'Orso Edda Dell'Orso (born Edda Sabatini; February 16, 1935) is an Italian singer known for her collaboration with composer Ennio Morricone, for whom she provided wordless vocals to a large number of his film scores. Dell'Orso also provided vocals to ...

- Soprano vocals * Jack White - Vocals ("The Rose with a Broken Neck", "Two Against One" and "The World") * Norah Jones - Vocals ("Season's Trees", "Black" and "Problem Queen")

Recording and arrangements

*Danger Mouse - Production, arrangements, mixing *Daniele Luppi - Production, arrangements, mixing, orchestra and choir conductor *Fabio Patrignani - Engineer, mixing

Usage in other media

* An interactive web film,
Rome: 3 Dreams of Black
', was created for the song "Black" by

Chris Milk Chris Milk is an American entrepreneur, innovator, director, photographer, and immersive artist. He is co-founder and CEO of Within (Virtual Reality) (formerly Vrse), a virtual reality technology company, and co-founder of Here Be Dragons (forme ...

with

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, using HTML5 technology including WebGL as part of Chrome Experiments. * The song "Black" accompanied the ending of " Face Off", the final episode of ''

Breaking Bad ''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited hig ...

''s fourth season. * The song "Two Against One" peaked number 20 in ''Billboard'' Alternative Songs chart and was included on the soundtrack for ''

2 Guns ''2 Guns'' is a 2013 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. It is based on the comic book series of the same name created by Steven Grant and Mateus Santolouco, publi ...

'', the 2013 film directed by

Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson (born 27 February 1966) is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films ''101 Reykjavík'', '' The Sea'', ''A Little Trip to Heaven'', '' Contraband'' ...

. In 2015, the track was also used for an advertisement of long-running British soap opera '' Emmerdale'' to promote the show's big Summer Fate storyline.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Danger Mouse (musician) albums 2011 albums Norah Jones albums Jack White albums Capitol Records albums Albums produced by Danger Mouse (musician) Parlophone albums EMI Records albums Lex Records albums Third Man Records albums