(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Jack White has revealed the new song-writing technique he developed when working on the Rome album.

The 35-year-old musician found fame as one half of American rock duo The White Stripes, with the band announcing last month that they have split.

Jack has been working on various interesting new projects lately though, with the latest being the collaboration album between US musician Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi.

Entitled Rome, the record is set for release in May, and features the vocals of Jack, as well as jazz songstress Norah Jones. Jack was thrilled about being involved in the project, and experimented with new lyrical methods when preparing for the album.

I tried something different for this. I rode around in a car listening to the instrumentals and I had a hand-held recorder and I sung whatever came to mind to all the songs and it was the ones that spoke to me more and more as I kept driving around, explained the star to British newspaper The Times.

And I started to find phrases that meant something to me and vocal melodies that meant something and built it up that way.

Rome has been designed to evoke the sounds of the Spaghetti Western movie genre, and Jack thought husky-voiced Norah would be the perfect lady to provide female vocals. Norah was thrilled to accept the offer, and admits she had a fairly simple task.

I came in the end of when they were working on it and I just had to sing! she laughed. (C) Cover Media