Greg Werckman (Ipecac Recordings co-founder) has announced in his last week zooindustry.com interview that Mondo Cane, Mike Patton’s long awaited Italian pop project, will be coming out in April 2010 on Ipecac.

Patton commented on the project : “I lived in Italy, off and on, for about 6/7 years. In that time I developed a love for this stuff and I found myself listening to a lot of singers from that era. I also realized the orchestrations were incredible, and that a lot of people who were playing and doing studio work at that time were really on point. I just found myself listening to a lot of that stuff and at a certain point I said to myself “Shat if ?”. So I just penciled in a project in my mind, this was about 8 years ago, probably, and I finally got around to it, basically. At that point, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. I was thinking about a 4 or 5 piece band. What it ended up growing into was, like, 65 people onstage, with strings and brass, its much more orchestral. I’m glad I waited, because the opportunity presented itself and I took advantage and it was definitely worth waiting for. The stuff is not pop music like we would say. It’s very intricate, there’s a lot of shit going on, it’s incredibly dense. I added, of course, a little bit of my own special sauce, but for the most part it’s a crooning record.”

Below is the Mondo Cane title “Deep Deep Down” performed in Amsterdam on the 12/06/08.