Collaborations You Would Like to See
 

What artists do you think would work really well together? Can be a group or individual, whatever you want.

One that would have been great is Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar, imo. Both could have learned a lot from each other that could make for a great album or 9.

I'm gonna keep up on this thread and use one artist from the previous post as my own little game.

Ravi Shankar and Ihsahn

Clams Casino and Aesop Rock.

Britney Spears and Burzum.

That would be classic.

They already collaborated, haven't you heard "Oops!...I Committed Arson Again"? It's a classic.

Children of Bodom covered Brittney Spears and kept some of her original vocal samples

Bright Eyes and Bathory

Kanye West and Damon Albarn

I'd like to see Steve Morse, or Guthrie Govan work some leads over some death metal. Maybe some Cannibal Corpse. Yeah, that would be tasty.

I'd love to hear Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd team up with the Heliocentrics and PJ Harvey.

^That would probably be fantastic.

Mark E. Smith (The Fall), Charles Hayward (This Heat), and Rika Hamamoto (Melt-Banana) would make incredible musicry I just know it.

John Fahey and Ravi Shankar

Oh ja that'd be great. I guess Shankar would play with pretty much anybody and I'd dig it quite a bit tbh. Same goes for Fahey but he was kind of a loner wasn't he? I don't really have anything to base that off of.

I think a live performance with Keiji Haino, Jandek, and Tatsuya Yoshida (of Acid Mothers Temple) would be one of the most incredible experiences to experience.

Well, Fahey did do a collaboration with Cul-de-sac, of all people. I have a feeling that he'd be up for working with Ravi.

That would be money.

Mike Patton and Les Claypool

Mike Patton and Danzig, their egos combined would create a black hole.

Also though, legit could be a cool combo.

I would love to see Clipping with Billy Woods, El-P, or Aesop Rock. Or a rapper who's actually decent. I really want to like them, but their emcee is so awful that it ruins their groundbreaking sonic adventures. Usually I don't care when the lyrics are a bit contrived but their emcee is just too cliched and unintelligent for me to appreciate.

It would be really cool if Eric Dolphy, Graham Moncur, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, and Rashied Ali got together for a session.

Here's a good one that I had mistakenly assumed had already happened: William Basinski and Tim Hecker. They both have sounds that would go nicely together but I think they'd also be a good pair to push each other's boundaries.

Liz Harris and Phil Elverum.

Is this just hypothetical, because if so even though he's gone I wonder what Beefheart and Waits working together would have sounded like?

This is hypothetical, yes. I'm not sure if Waits would really bring anything to the table tbh, not to mention that Beefheart was kind of a dictator-esque bandleader so he might not even let him.

Their voices are so similar I think it'd be unnecessary. If we count their backing bands that would be something though.

It's true they could be very similar, but still, I think it would be interesting given all the weird soundscapes Waits works with and bringing even the old elements of his earlier jazz and blues into play. Beefheart sings "Small change"? Maybe Waits tries "Moonlight on Vermont"?

I also think Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj, as I only have the one bullet...

The word unnecessary comes to mind again...

Flying Lotus and Thom Yorke. FlyLo could produce Thom's Hip Hop debut, and Thom could do some rapping, à la A Wolf at the Door.

Kind of a joke, and I know Thom featured on FlyLo's Cosmogramma, but a full album between the two could be really good.

What's unnecessary?

If they were to just sing each other's songs they don't really need to come together for it, I'd rather see them do something new. I think that both of them are above relying on cover songs to make an album (though Waits has did it with Orphans). I don't think that the style of music they play would be fitting for two voices, really. Although the more I think about it, the more interested I am in seeing where it would lead.

Franz Ferdinand and Sparks.

....oh wait.

Relevant news I just discovered:

Sun Kil Moon and Jesu Collab LP Detailed, Mark Kozelek Performs With Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley | News | Pitchfork

I didn't see this one coming but I'd like to see where this leads as well.

Jesus The Carpenter and Trouble Salad.

Danny Brown and Clams Casino.

Oh wait: https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsing...n-clams-casino

I've been seeing the ads on AS for the free music. Never heard of either of these two but then again, I'm kinda new.

Mats Gustafsson - baritone saxophone
Keiji Haino - guitar
Merzbow - noise
Massimo Pupillo - bass
Tatsuya Yoshida - drums

Now that would be a rocking album.

Might as well throw Brotzmann in there too.

That's always a given, but I'm not even sure those five would have enough space to unfold playing together.

We could always curate one of Haino's notorious 4 hour plus concerts. I'll give him a jingle, see if he's up for it.

I'm seriously contemplating on going to Tokyo for the winter holidays, once I'm rich enough, to experience one of those.
I really hope Haino really is the immortal mystical being I assume him to be and won't stop doing them anytime soon.

Haino's one of my bucketlist artists I'd like to see. If he makes it to America I'll try my damnedest to catch him, even if it means going to Florida to see him perform.