Friday night is collaborative music night

[Flying_Monkey]

Collaborations between individual musicians or bands, or even musicians and non-musicians. Unexpectedly good ones, boundary-crossing ones, weird ones, really terrible ones... what are you favourite musical collaborations or ones to avoid?

Here's a very good one to start off: Pakistani Quwaalhi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Canadian multi-instrumentalist and producer, Michael Brook. The whole album is lovely.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU9-TIa4nAQ

 

[vernon]

But it's Friday afternoon....

 

[vernon]

Don't listen to this collaboration between Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian pipes) and The Penguin Cafe Orchestra until this evening.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCVpuW1eNU[/media]


Some might object to Kathryn's open finger style of playing and prefer the Billy Pigg staccato style as played by the likes of Adrian Schofield.

 

[Archie_tect]

Haven't got to grips with that yet FM, but will listen again later.

Loved the pipe harmonies vernon, I much prefer her style of playing, but the piano support was very... unrelenting, but I managed to fade it out in my head when the other instruments broke through!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Jon Spencer and R L Burnside.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ghvzUjR2N8


Bright Eyes and Emmy Lou Harris.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjjSyFL0zE

 

[TVC]

Air and Jarvis Cocker performing a song by Charlotte Gainsbourg: AF706105

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=604jqF0USKY[/media]

 

[growingvegetables]

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd5AV9H14m4[/media]


Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder

 

[GrumpyGregry]

William Shatner and Joe Jackson covering Common People by Pulp.

Robert Smith and Crystal Castles

Robert Smith and Blink-182

 

[slowmotion]

George Harrison and Alvin Lee. ( GH is on slide guitar)
Jaw dropping, IMVHO.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijHA2BAguXI[/media]

 

[Yellow Fang]

Blimey, it was hard work thinking of a collaboration that wasn't an abomination. I was going to suggest Bananarama and Fun Boy Three, but that was too awful to inflict on you. Then Cliff Richards and The Shadows, but that sucked big time too. I dimly remembered Elton John and Kiki Dee, but I never really liked it much at the time, and I don't know how much of a collaboration that could be said to be when Kiki Dee was almost completely unknown.

However, I give you Madness and Ian Dury:

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2yfR2g_tAc[/media]

 

[Andy_R]

Run DMC & Aerosmith

 

[Archie_tect]

Still my favourite....
Elbow and BBC Orchestra

 

[slowmotion]

Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOo35Qyve5I[/media]

 

[Brains]

And the one I saw live c1986:

Lemmy (Motorhead)
Dave Vaniian (The Dammed)
Ian Astbury (The Cult)
Backed by Doctor and the Medics

The songs included G.l.o.r.i.a aaaa, She sells sactury, New Rose, Ace of spades, Spirit in the Sky

 

[Theseus]

How about a choral piece put together across the internet ...


My link