Artist: Michael Brook
Genre(s):
New Age
Electronic
Soundtrack
Discography:
India Kingdom Of The Tiger
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Cobalt Blue
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Live At The Aquarium: London Zoo 21 May 1992
Year: 1993
Tracks: 7
Hybrid
Year: 1985
Tracks: 8
Tribal
Year:
Tracks: 2
Affliction
Year:
Tracks: 16
The innovative guitarist and producer Michael Brook was natural and embossed in Toronto. While perusal electronic euphony and the humanities at the University of Toronto, he met trumpter Jon Hassell, with whom he subsequently toured; through Hassell, Brook as well was introduced to minimalist composer LaMonte Young, under whom he studied Indian music. A period working as the house technologist at producer Daniel Lanois' celebrated Grant Avenue recording studio apartment lED to a incumbency playing guitar with the Canadian crop up ring Martha and the Muffins during the late '70s; at the like time, Brook as well met Brian Eno, guesting on the 1980 Eno/Hassell collaboration Possible Musics. In 1983, he as well played on Harold Budd's Thaumaturgy Realism.
In 1985 Brook made his solo debut with Hybrid, an influential ethno-ambient work recorded with Eno that discovered the heart ground betwixt Western and Indian musical aesthetics and naturalized his unique, heavily-processed "infinite guitar" heavy. He spent much of the unexpended decennary working with Eno, portion create picture sculptures and sound installations crossways the orb; he also became a sought producer, helming records for such various talents as Roger Eno, Pieter Nooten, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Balloon, and the Pogues. In 1990, Brook returned to public music, producing Youssou N'Dour's acclaimed Set; more significantly, he began a continuing quislingism with Pakistani qawaali isaac M. Singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the seminal Mustt Mustt, a nuclear fusion of Western ambient and pop sounds with the sacred spiritual music of the East.
Later producing Khaled, a 1991 visualize for the Algerian rai vocalist Cheb Khaled, Brook returned to the studio to record his number one solo effort in 7 age, 1992's leading Co Blue; a uncommon concert performance granted at a company celebrating the album's sacking was after issued as the limited edition Live at the Aquarium. A mate of projects with the Indian mandolin sensation U. Srinvas, 1994's Rama Sreemrama and the next year's Ambition, followed; in 1996, Brook reunited with Ali Khan for Night Song, trailed by work on on the score for the Kevin Spacey-directed offense noir Albino Alligator.
