By Odeisel
The most important aspect of creation is passion. If you have that, you will devote the time to honing your craft, learning things through trial and error and mining history for the inspiration necessary to push your art forward. Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton has passion. The kind that pushes you to try and out-Hov Hov with a Grey Album. The kind of passion that could make an artist like Cee-Lo Green go “Crazy.”
At a certain point, passion must surrender to skill; the precision application of intellect and talent that allows transcendence. Daniele Luppi has the razor sharp skill that paints pictures with sound. The skill that makes movies into classics and makes you associate them with points of your life. Luppi is a modern master of composition. If you find yourself unable to forget certain melodies from Sex And The City, it’s probably his fault.
Once you have that passion, and you apply it to that skill, you need balls. You need that fuck you molecule that runs through the DNA of very few people in this world. The kind that doesn’t allow you to sit on your ass. When you and your ex-wife are a kick ass band, but you have different things you want to express musically, you go left and you form another group. And then another. And beat the dog shit out of someone who says you didn’t have anything to do with their album when you know you did. Jack White? Damn right.
But with every force comes the needs for finesse. The soft, refined direction of a surgeon’s scalpel comes to mind. Nothing is more powerful in human existence than the the right woman at the right time. Ask the citizens of Troy. Norah Jones oozes a feathery smoke of femininity like the hot chick that brushes past you in the mall with the scent you can never forget. The anonymous one. All you remember is the hair. And the scent. Norah Jones’ voice is all the finesse you need.
Those fantastic four elements have converged on the coming release Rome. Helmed by Messrs. Luppi and Burton. Vocalized by White and Jones. Simmered of the musicanship of 70 year old musicians who have played instruments for most of their lives and have scored decades old movies. Here’s the first official trailer for the album. An album seven years in the making. Remember where you saw it first.
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