After releasing an album with her father last year, Amanda Palmer can now cross another item off her personal bucket list: Ever since she discovered the music of Anglo-Dutch psychedelic veterans Legendary Pink Dots in her teenage years, she has dreamed of a collaboration. Now the album »I Can Spin A Rainbow« is released, which she recorded together with LPD founding member Edward Ka-Spel. As already described in her autobiography published in 2014, the Legendary Pink Dots have always been a great influence on Palmer's artistic work and her self-image as a creative. The two first met in 1993 at a Legendary Pink Dots show in Palmer's hometown of Boston, when the band was looking for fans to stay with to save money. Amanda, who was 16 years old at the time, housed 5 band members and stayed in touch with them later. Ten years later, Palmer's duo The Dresden Dolls was so successful that she was able to invite her friends to support her for a German tour. It was during this tour that the idea for a collaboration between Palmer and Ka-spel was born for the first time. Another decade passed before Palmer, heavily pregnant, traveled to London in 2015 to begin recording. However, on the first day of the recording sessions, she learned that her close friend Anthony would lose the battle with cancer and had only a few days to live. She traveled back home with a broken heart and the promise to continue the project a year later. Palmer kept her word and returned to London in 2016 with her eight-month-old son Anthony. They were helped out in their search for a studio by Palmer's girlfriend Imogen Heap, who made her premises in Essex available to them. Largely recorded on Ka-Spel's computer, »I Can Spin A Rainbow« is a true team effort, or as Palmer himself puts it, »a spiritual experience«, in which both artists combined their stories, song fragments, poems, lyrics with melancholic piano playing, melodic foundations and strange rhythms. Palmer describes the process as follows: "We merged our two songwriter minds and poetic worlds to create a whole new universe. We sat drinking tea in Imogen's house, mourning the state of the approaching elections, the British trend towards binge drinking, the refugee crisis, our internet addiction, the scary news we heard, our relationships... and then we put the ingredients of our fears and long conversations into song form. The rainbow metaphor – which is also a reminiscence of the spinning ›beach ball of death‹ on Mac computers – was a recurring image that appeared again and again during the filming. Dark on the one hand, but also light at the same time. To me, the songs seem frightening as well as comforting at the same time. It's like a bad thunderstorm outside, while you're sitting inside in the warm sitting-room." Ka-Spel adds: "Making this album with Amanda was like discovering a twin you never had. Until, all of a sudden, at an auspicious moment, an unexpected email appears in your inbox."