Interactive Poll XXVII: Collaborations Don't Work

I just updated the poll but I still need to know the nominations from Greg, Kees and dr wu.

Let me know if I'm forgetting anything.

dr Wu23:  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss  “Please Read the Letter”  I have this in my collection, they were a very inspired pairing.  I like very much the quiet production and wistful feel, it reminds me in sentiment of JA’s “Comin’ Back To Me”  Alison’s fiddle is beautiful, of course.  And their voices together, sublime.  Roy Harper, Kate Bush & David Gilmour “Once”  begins with a very slow build  and a solemn vocal.  Restrained and moving electric lead about halfway in.  Kate joins in with Roy after the lead, very subtlely, bolstering his vocal.  She has a moment near the end with a faery-like wispy vocal in the clouds, the piece ends with a fiery lead and the word, “once,” one more time.  A song of the ephemerality of us all. 

Tancos:   (BS [Before Script, opposite of post script, lol]  Saw your “likes” on the non-prog bands thread, love a lot of those myself, I’ve brought Kaleidoscope into these polls before and also pleased to see another Firesign Theater fan here….They’re in everybody’s eggs):  Philip Pickett & Richard Thompson & Fairport Folks  “Lo Ballo Dell-intorcia”  I have not heard this and I am a big fan of Richard Thompson, so am quite looking forward to it.  Here we go…Big drums start the piece out, this is very Fairport in sound, as expected, love the guitar (of course, it’s RT!) and the horn-type instruments (shawms?)  Very Renaissance-y (as in the time period, not the band) recorder, I think, then wonky as all heck lead from RT again.   They have a wonderful call-and-answer interplay between the recorder and guitar (with percussing galloping along underneath)  and come to a crashing end.  Mike Heron “Warm Heart Pastry”  This came out when Mike Heron wanted to explore his electric propensities more than Robin Williamson did, as they parted ways from the Incredible String Band.  I used to own this LP, it was sold at one point, when I had to in a very penurious time.  This is very raw psychedelic in sound, a bit garage-y, also with wonky guitars and slidy group vocals about ¾ in.  It was fun to hear it again, I have a rule of if I have heard it, I strike it from my potentials list, but thank you for bringing it back to my attention.  

Cristi wrote: ^ I was wondering about that, I'll make up my mind tomorrow, it's between Off Course & Truffaz and Soord/Renkse.

No time to write about everything, but the Soord/Renkse is pretty cool. The other one isn't bad either, but second place among yours.

Khorakhané (collaboration between De Andre & Fossati for the lyrics, performance by De André featuring Dori Ghezzi)

If you want to see the live performance:

Thanks to Snicolette and Suitkees.