Danger Mouse Readies Three Projects, Including New Gnarls

February 26, 2007

Danger Mouse fans rejoice: the über-producer has three new projects in the works, including collaborations with Sparklehorse frontman Mark Lunkous, Italian composer Daniele Lupi and Gnarls Barkley bandmate Cee-Lo,

Mouse previously teamed up with the eccentric Lunkous — who’s known for his excessively surreal, nonsensical, metaphor-laden music — on 2006’s Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain. And it seems Sparklehorse’s music is in just the right key of crazy to lure Mouse back for another, even more ambitious project.

"Dangerhorse has already started," Mouse tells MTV, referring to the project’s working title. "We don't know what we are going to call it altogether yet, but that'll be a whole album. We're just not sure when it will be finished."

Mouse has also been scurrying around with Lupi, the soundtrack composer who played on Gnarls Barkley’s St. Elsewhere and the producer behind super-group the Good, the Band & and the Queen, featuring Daman Albarn of Blru, Paul Simonon of the Clash, Simon Tong of the Verve and Tony Allen of Africa 70.

Gnarls bandmate Cee-Lo also revealed he’s been writing new tracks with Mouse for a follow up to their smash St. Elsewhere.

"We already have five or six new songs, so the new record is off to a good start and we'll see where it goes," Cee-Lo tells MTV. "It's not a totally different direction. I'm going back and redoing some things that I didn't get a chance to complete, so it's definitely a continuation."

Busy Mouse. Just don’t except to get your sweaty, little mitts on any of the new music any time soon. Mouse isn’t exactly known for his speed: even Gnarls was five years in the making.