Mondo Cane (album)

Mondo Cane
Studio album by Mike Patton
Released May 4, 2010
Genre Italian popular music, easy-listening
Length 36:49
Label Ipecac Recordings
(IPC-119) (CD)
Producer Regione Emilia Romagna
Mike Patton chronology
Crank: High Voltage soundtrack (2009) Mondo Cane (2010) The Solitude of Prime Numbers (soundtrack) (2011)

Mondo Cane is an album by Mike Patton, released on May 4, 2010 through Ipecac Recordings. It features cover versions of 1950s and 1960s Italian pop music, performed by Mike Patton with an orchestra of about 65 people. The album was originally planned for release in "summer of '08",[1] then again "in early '09"[2] but ultimately went unreleased until May 2010,[3] some of these songs are available online on the Italian magazine Rockit.[4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [5]
Drowned in Sound (7/10)[6]
Slant Magazine [7]

The album has been met with generally favorable reviews. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart,[8] and #7 on the Heatseekers chart.[9]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Il cielo in una stanza"   Gino Paoli, Mina 3:55
2. "Che notte!"   Fred Buscaglione, Leo Chiosso 3:18
3. "Ore d'amore"   Bert Kaempfert, Carl Sigman, Franco Migliacci, Fred Bongusto, Herbert Rehbein 2:52
4. "Deep Down"   Ennio Morricone 3:21
5. "Quello che conta"   Ennio Morricone, Luciano Salce 4:03
6. "Urlo Negro"   The Blackmen 2:49
7. "Scalinatella"   Enzo Bonagura, Giuseppe Cioffi, Roberto Murolo 3:15
8. "L'uomo che non sapeva amare"   Elmer Bernstein, Mogol, Nico Fidenco, Vito Pallavicini 3:17
9. "20 km al giorno"   Mogol, Nicola Arigliano, Pino Massara 2:55
10. "Ti offro da bere"   Gianni Meccia, Gianni Morandi 2:27
11. "Senza fine"   Enzo Gragnaniello, Gino Paoli, Ornella Vanoni 4:37

External links

References

  1. ^ Kharakh, Ben, Mike Patton Talks 'I am Legend', 'Mondo Cane', (interview). Starpulse.com. January 17th, 2008. Accessed: 6 May 2010
  2. ^ Mastrapa, Gus, Mike Patton | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club (interview). A.V. Club. July 17, 2008. Accessed: 6 May 2010
  3. ^ Mike Patton | The A.V. Club
  4. ^ Mondo Cane review (Italian) - Includes three streaming mp3s of full songs.
  5. ^ Lymangrover, Jason. "allmusic ((( Mondo Cane > Review )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1784438. Retrieved May 5, 2010. 
  6. ^ Bloomfield, Philip. "Mondo Cane review". Drowned in Sound. May 2010, cited June 9.
  7. ^ Cataldo, Jesse. "Mondo Cane". Slant Magazine. April 2010, cited May 5, 2010.
  8. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/chart-beat-thursday-glee-club-of-hits-expands-1004091043.story,
  9. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/classical-albums#/charts/heatseekers-albums
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