I'd like to hear a big band album. Those 50's Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett albums sound great. I think P. would make a great album if he did such an album.

Power Trio.

I'd love to hear him do an album accompanied by an orchestra. I'm not talking about Clare Fischer, whose collaborations with Prince I love, but a full symphony orchestra. It'd be great to hear Prince perform some of his classics w/ full orchestral accompaniment, but it'd be cool to hear what kind of new music could come out of this as well.

Christaro said:

I've no preference, just as long as it's not rap, hip-hop or country (the only three genres of music I can't get into).

And I thought Musicology was sort of a "big band" album...

Positive, intelligent, creative, colourfull, psychedelic pop/rock.

Not too many synths: some exotic instruments and clare fisher orchestration instead.

The psychedelic pop of ATWIAD combined with the easygoing songs on musicology and some flashes of Parade / Lovesexy 'weirdness' added.

Songs i am thinkin about here:
- Raspberry Beret
- In all my dreams
- New Position
- Good Love
- Glam Slam
- 8 from Madhouse

But a second style i would like also would indeed be The Power Trio

Prince, Michael B and Sonny T with a hammond organist playing music in the vein of Cream, The band of gypsies and King's X: Bluesy rock with funky accents.

And to bring some variation in the mix he should ad a few old-styled R&B ballads in the vein of Otis Redding or Stax, with some juicy horns on top of it and maybe an anachronistic Clare Fisher string arrangement.

I'll just b happy with a new album.No particular preference.

LOL.. another nice idea comes up.

Prince teaming up with Clare Fisher for a new bunch of songs mixing stripped down electrofunk beats with full orchestra (songs in the vein of Screams of Passion, Mia Bocca and Crystal Ball).

On albums like Homogenic and Vespertine Björk has showed there are still very creative and beautifull results possible when you mix electronic beats with orchestra.

I am curious to hear if Prince can surprise 'us' again with a new kind of mix.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

I feel U

Riverpoet31 said:

as much as i love clare fisher's contributions and as much as i sincerely hope he and prince continue to collaborate in the future, i think for prince to work with fisher on an "orchestral" album would be too easy for prince. i think prince has gotten really comfortable with his collaborations with fisher and knows how to "manipulate" fisher's offerings in a way that wouldn't be as challenging as putting prince in a studio with his current NPG (or whatever he's calling it these days) and a full symphony orchestra that he's never worked with before. i'm sure an album composed and recorded with the clare fisher orchestra would be beautiful, but i'd love to hear some orchestral accompaniment that came from a different source, just to hear how the challenge of it would turn out.

I can understand your view.

If he should work with another orchestral arranger again, i would love to hear him colaborate with:

Tony Visconti: a veteran when it comes to orchestrations, he did deliver some very nice work on the last album of the Finn brothers (Neil Finn and Tim Finn, formerly from Crowded House)

Vince Mendoza: a bit less traditional, and more 'avantgarde' then Visconti. His work on Björks Vespertine album is IMO one of the best examples of the 'beauty' of mixing popular music with classical orchestration.