My List: Five collaborative albums you have to listen to according to the musician and producer Macabre

Keyboardist and producer Macabre, formerly Catupecu Machu who now plays with his band Maleboux and has also joined Baltasar Comotto’s group, is an unbridled music lover and chooses for rolling stone their five favorite collaborative albums (not feats. but complete works composed of two).

Love This Giant (2012) – St. Vincent and David Byrne

«Total disco, with Byrne, who is a great reference, and he marked a lot of things for me, from the stage to the music of Talking Heads. St. Vincent is also an artist who has surprised me a lot lately, with an impeccable sound. And the two together are great. What ended up killing me is that they did it with a band with wind instruments, instead of recording it with a traditional formation».

Someday World (2014) – Brian Eno and Karl Hydelix

«Hydelix is ​​the singer of Underworld, which is a cover, because it is the voice of an electronic band. He has a peculiarity that he works with loops, but he loops them himself, he is like a human loopera and sings beautiful melodies. The union with Brian Eno is deadly, because Eno is one of the musicians who best represents me today, the way he interprets music, not at all traditional. They have some very travel themes ».

Monolith of Phobos (2016) – Sean Lennon and Les Claypool

«The two put together a band, called The Claypool Lennon Delirium. 70’s psychedelic rock recorded now. This album blows my mind, which is the first of them (they have two). English psychedelic rock very Monty Python at times, with humor and lysergic delirium. Les Claypool is an incredible bass player and I have an almost perverse relationship with Sean Lennon, because his voice reminds me a lot of his father John’s. It seems to me like an extension and since we can’t have John, we have his son, who is a genius too».

Mimikry (2010) – Alva Noto and Blixa Bargeld

“This is a more misshapen record. Alva Noto is an avant-garde artist who works only with computers and Blixa Bargeld, the singer-songwriter from Einstürzende Neubauten. It’s a very dark album, with lyrics by Blixa, who sings in English and German, but the peculiarity is that the music is composed only by Alva Noto, who has incredible good taste. I remember that at the shows of Madera Microchip, from Catupecu, we played his records, very ambient with filtered sounds and pianos. That’s where we became fans of him. It is not an album to listen to before going out to dance on Saturday night, but to pay attention to it».

SSSS (2012) – Martin Gore and Vince Clarke

“I love you both. Gore, who is the founder of Depeche Mode, and Clarke, the creator of Yazoo and Erasure, but also the founder of Depeche Mode. They are both collectors of modular synthesizers. They are sick people who have already turned around. They were very tech and now, older, they dedicated themselves to collecting synthesizers. They both have a museum. They distanced themselves for a long time and then they got back together and recorded this very cool, half-techno album. The album is named after the sound of the snake. I love how stripped they sound, beyond being two greats of contemporary music.