Collaborations

 

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Sarah Kirkland Snider: Penelope Shara sings this song cycle with the orchestra Signal

Clogs: The Creatures of Lady Walton Shara is featured on six songs from this album

Poems of Mustafa Ziyalan: Letters to Distant Cities reading of poems & Shara sings”The Sea”

Stateless: Matilda duet with Chris James on the song “I’m on Fire”

Colin Stetson: New History Warfare 2: Judges solo on “Lord I just can’t keep from crying” & duet with Laurie Anderson on “Fear of the Unknown and The Blazing Sun”

David Byrne & FatBoy Slim: Here Lies Love duet with David on “Seven Years”

The Decemberists: Hazards of Love solo on “The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid” & “The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing”

Owen Pallett: Export (demo) Shara sings “The Great Elsewhere”

Prefuse73: The Only Hand to Hold Shara sings a slow jam

Vinnie Paz: Season of the Assassin solo on “Keep Movin’ On”

Jedi Mind Tricks: Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell solo on ”When All Light Dies” & “Razorblade Salvation”

Liz Janes: Bitty Thing Shara covers Liz’s song

900x: Music for Lubbock 1980 Shara guest vocals on the track “Lands”

Tim Fite: Fair Ain’t Fair background vocals on “The Names of All the Animals”

Son Lux: We Are Rising background vocals on “Rebuild”

DM Stith: Heavy Ghost background vocals

Pedestrian: Ghostly Life background vocals on “Overwhelmed”

Sufjan Stevens: Age of Adz background vocals throughout album & solo on “Impossible Soul”

Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche background vocals throughout album

Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise background vocals throughout album

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Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler: opera filmed in Detroit 2010

Blind Boys of Alabama: performance at the Sydney Opera House 2010

Bon Iver: performance at Radio City Music Hall for “Dark Was The Night” 2009

Laurie Anderson: “Homeland” at The Rose Theater 2008