On one side you’ve got Haram, Vancouver’s leading (and probably only) Middle Eastern free-jazz party band. On the other, you’ve got Michael Blake, a Vancouver-raised saxophonist now living in Brooklyn whose most recent LPs have included tributes to ’70s soul and ’40s bop.

What will result when they merge—at the VCC Auditorium on Friday (October 28)—is anyone’s guess. And then there’s this to consider: Blake’s memorable 1997 debut, Kingdom of Champa, included a traditional Vietnamese folk song, while Haram bandleader Gordon Grdina is both a skilled and slippery performer on the oud and a fiercely inventive noise guitarist.

Whatever they come up with together is sure to be wild.