Collaborations
Collaborations With The City Mouse
Charly “the city mouse” Fasano is a poet, filmmaker, painter and block printer from Denver, Colorado. He has released two spoken word records accompanied by the music of Memphis’ Lucero. His short animated films have appeared at the No Budget Film Festival, Blackbird Film Festival and The Lowlands Film Festival. His short animated film Teddy’s Bowling Alley was awarded a Jury Prize at the Machinima Expo 7 Film Fest in 2014. Books of his poems have been published by Sunnyoutside Press (Buffalo NY) and Spartan Press (Kansas City). His drawings and poems have appeared in Suspect Press Magazine, Yellow Rake Magazine and Birdy Magazine. He also illustrated a book length poem by Ken Arkind called “Denver” with a series of block prints. Named to the Westword Magazine’s 100 Creatives 4.0 list, his drawings and paintings have also featured in group exhibitions at Bitfactory Gallery and Cabal Gallery in Denver.
Charly Fasano (The City Mouse) has allowed me to share a download link for these tracks. Thanks Charly!
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/52a987360#hiwi9wn9-kzur42bh-4sbc3wkp-jgfv9p22
1. Gasoline Fumes
2. Teddy's Bowling Alley
3. Memphis
4. New Year 2005
5. Miss Tulsa (ft City Mouse)
6. Memphis (ft City Mouse) - Live
One of several unconventional yet effective samples on
A.L.L.A. comes from Danger Mouse’s toolkit, as the always alt-rock-savvy
producer incorporates some alt-country into “Holy Ghost”. Memphis’s own Lucero
provides the twangy soul that underscores Rocky’s embattled-fame hymnal, the
rhythm section and Ben Nichols’ guitar from “Noon As Dark As Midnight” pitched
down to the point where its peak-hour heat fades to a low-lit simmer. It’s a
stirring effect, but juxtaposing the lyrics brings out some subliminal parallels:
Nichols’ epiphany to face the difficult truth with a loved one (“Runnin’ from
the truth for all my life/ Wake up darlin’, wake up darlin’/ No I’m too tired
to tell more lies”) is funhouse-mirrored in Rocky lines that damn the false
hopes of prosperity gospel even as he’s found success in his own sermons.
Speaking of much different genres, something I did not expect to happen at all this year was when A$AP Rocky sampled Lucero’s “Noon As Dark As Midnight” on “Holy Ghost” off his new album… but it works! What can you tell me about that?
I never saw that coming. But that has to be one of the coolest things to happen to Lucero ever. It’s just fucking sweet. It’s a great guitar line and it fits perfectly in that song. The story I heard was that Danger Mouse heard the song in a bar and Soundhounded it or whatever and tracked it down. That is just a rumor I heard. Have no idea how it actually came about. But it’s still a huge compliment for us. I’d love it if more things like that came up in the future. I figure we need to work “Noon As Dark As Midnight” back into the set for the Fall Tour.
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