MILANO is the unofficial follow up to Luppi and Danger Mouse’s 2011 album Rome, a love letter to classic Italian film scores, with Jack White and Norah Jones. Watch visuals for “Soul and Cigarette” here: Purchase and stream “Soul and Cigarette” here: Peter took photos of the most iconic and visual striking things happening in Milan in the 1980s and seeing these images again evoked a myriad of emotions, I couldn’t believe he photographed the same places and things I experienced as a teen in the city.” Regarding the video, Daniele Luppi notes, “Every picture featured in the video has a deep meaning to me. Shire is one of the artists from the original Memphis Group art collective, whose bold works and sculptural furniture are the major visual influence for MILANO.
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The video, which premiered on Pitchfork, is directed by Daniele, and based on artwork created by Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts, featuring photos from the archive of artist Peter Shire. Her story is one of great suffering and her verse is often quite painful, an important juxtaposition from the cosmopolitan Milan we associate with luxury and excess”. I was reading her and trying to imagine Milan as she saw and experienced it. Says Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts, “’Soul and Cigarette’ is a tribute to Alda Merini, one of Milan and Italy’s most renowned poets, yet unfortunately not as heralded internationally. The jaunty, springy tune belies its more sinister, saddened backstory of artistic struggle. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts Milano 1 Soul and Cigarette 2 Talisa (feat. The first offering from MILANO is Daniele & Parquet Courts “Soul and Cigarette” released today. Daniele teamed up with Parquet Courts and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s vocalist, Karen O, to help deliver his vision of an emerging youth culture struggling to be heard amidst the rapid gentrification of old Milan. Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review. MILANO is a concept album, complete with songs that are fictionalized stories about misfits, fashionistas, outcasts and junkies in mid-1980s Milan. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts MILANO (LP). It’s insightful, invigorating, and honest.DANIELE LUPPI & PARQUET COURTS TO RELEASE CONCEPT ALBUM MILANO FEATURING KAREN Oįirst track “Soul and Cigarette” from Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts Available Now Watch Video HereĮmmy nominated Italian composer, producer and artist, Daniele Luppi, will release his album MILANO on Danger Mouse’s Columbia Records imprint 30th Century Records on October 27th. Less cinematic than Luppi’s previous work in scope and style, MILANO is an intimate collection of snapshots about life in a certain place at a certain time. To call it a love letter would be disingenuous it’s a tender and sharp meditation on a city at war with itself, delivered with pitch-perfect cadence by Parquet Courts and Karen O. MILANO recalls all the passion and charm Daniele Luppi remembers from mid 80s Milan, but also the frustration and dissatisfaction of its youth. Karen O pays tribute to Soto with all the flair and theatricality she deserves, spitting lines like 'It’s how you toss your hair / It’s how you wear your pout' with adoring, almost obsessive, zeal. Named for Talisa Soto, model and friend of Gianni Versace, it’s the antithesis of Soul and Cigarette, trading contemplation for spontaneity and an urgent rhythm. Talisa, on the other hand, is loud and vibrant, a raucous introduction to the charismatic elites of Luppi’s Milan. 'Tasting poison and flesh / Dragged back from death, by the calm of a breath,' Savage sings languidly, evoking the dusk and melancholy of Merini’s poetry as well as the downtrodden youth of Italy. In Soul and Cigarette, a veneer of delicate percussion adorns wistful guitar melodies and sombre lyrics that pay tribute to Italian poet Alda Merini, institutionalised for mental illness for over a decade. The dichotomy of the Milan Luppi grew up in is fully exposed in MILANO’s two opening tracks.
'With me and you, the pleasure is all yours,' O blasts on The Golden Ones, her words dripping with attitude and self-satisfaction, while on Memphis Blues Again Savage laments that 'modernism’s a chore' and 'school makes me snore.' Talisa by Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts featuring Karen O - from Luppi’s concept album MILANO, out now via Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records.Get MILANO. The characters they portray lurch between mania and ennui with the jolt of a mood swing.
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And who better to give voice to the dissenting youth than Parquet Courts and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O? Andrew Savage’s sardonic drawl and O’s exaggerated intonation are perfect vessels to inhabit Luppi’s tales of Milan’s cracked adolescents.
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