DANGER MOUSE AND DANIELE LUPPI

Rome

[Capitol]

Five years in the making, this collaboration between producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and composer Daniele Luppi is an homage to the stylish sound of ’60s Italian film music, especially the so-called “Spaghetti Western” genre. As directors like Sergio Leone were trying to replicate American westerns a half-century ago, so Burton and Luppi journeyed to Rome to summon the spirit of a musical subgenre that made as much of a mark as the films it accompanied. The two recorded in the studio co-founded by iconic Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, with musicians he used and ’60s-era gear. There are distinct echoes of the Morricone sound here: the sweeping strings of “Roman Blue,” an inescapable evocation of For a Few Dollars More in “Morning Fog,” the voice of Morricone collaborator Edda Dell’Orso winding through “Theme of Rome.” What Burton and Luppi have produced is gorgeous orchestral pop music that indeed captures the epic, cinematic sweep of their source material. –Stuart Munro

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