Editing Michael Brook

{{Short description|Canadian musician (born 1951)}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Michael Brook
| image               =
| caption             = 
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = 
| alias               = 
| birth_date          = {{birth year and age|1951}}
| death_date          = 
| origin              = [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada
| instrument          = [[Guitar]], [[Infinite Guitar]], [[music sequencer|sequencer]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[bass guitar]], [[djembe]], [[surdo]], [[percussion]]
| genre               = [[Post-rock]], [[folk rock]], [[electronic rock]], [[experimental rock]], [[soundtrack]]
| occupation          = Musician, inventor, [[film score]] composer
| years_active        = 
| label               = [[Real World Records|Real World]], [[E.G. Records|E.G.]], [[4AD]]
| associated_acts     = [[Brian Eno]], [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], [[Robert Fripp]], [[The Edge]], [[David Sylvian]], [[Trey Gunn]]
| website             = {{URL|michaelbrookmusic.com}}
| current_members     = 
| past_members        = 
}}

'''Michael Brook''' (born 1951) is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, music producer, and film music composer.<ref name="npr.org">{{cite web |last=Brook |first=Michael |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586671 |title=Michael Brook's Eclectic Rock Tribute |publisher=NPR |access-date=2016-02-02 |archive-date=2018-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818214411/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586671 |url-status=live }}</ref> He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, [[minimalism]] and film scores. His collaborations with musicians around the world have made him "one of the most sought-after producers in the music industry."<ref name="npr.org"/> Born in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada, Brook lives in Los Angeles. He is the creator of the [[Infinite Guitar]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Kane|first=Peter|date=5 March 1991|title=Stories|journal=Q Magazine|volume=55|pages=11}}</ref>

== Career ==
Brook studied music and electronics at [[York University]] and worked as an engineer at the Grant Avenue studios, then owned by the [[Daniel Lanois|Lanois]] brothers.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-10-21|title=40 years of musical history at Grant Avenue|language=en|work=The Hamilton Spectator|url=https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/music/2016/10/21/40-years-of-musical-history-at-grant-avenue.html|access-date=2021-11-14|issn=1189-9417|archive-date=2021-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114142128/https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/music/2016/10/21/40-years-of-musical-history-at-grant-avenue.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Here he worked with [[Brian Eno]], [[The Edge]], [[Jon Hassell]] and [[Harold Budd]]. In 1985 he released his first solo album ''Hybrid'', containing instrumental tracks with Indian and African elements.<ref name=":0" />

Another notable collaboration was ''[[Sleeps with the Fishes]]'' with [[Clan of Xymox]] member [[Pieter Nooten]] ([[4AD]], 1987). He worked on the album ''[[Set (Youssou N'Dour album)|Set]]'' by [[Youssou N'Dour]], ''[[Miss America (Mary Margaret O'Hara album)|Miss America]]'' by [[Mary Margaret O'Hara]] and collaborated with [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]] on the album ''[[Mustt Mustt]]''.<ref name=":0" />

He toured as a member of the [[David Sylvian|Sylvian]] and [[Robert Fripp|Fripp]] tour group, with the final concert at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in December 1993 documented on the album ''[[Damage: Live]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Biography by Jason Ankeny |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-brook-mn0000456423/biography |title=Michael Brook &#124; Biography & History |website=AllMusic |access-date=2016-02-02 |archive-date=2016-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131025017/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-brook-mn0000456423/biography |url-status=live }}</ref> He also opened the concerts with a solo set, featuring the [[Infinite Guitar]] with effects and sequencer backing. In 1998, he produced the album "[[Volcán: Tributo a José José]]", a tribute album to singer [[Jose Jose]]. In 2006, the solo album ''RockPaperScissors'' was released, with an ambient remix version following in 2007. Brook toured small venues in Canada and the United States in late January/early February, 2007. In writing about his score for the film 2015 film ''Brooklyn'', ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' said the film was "buoyed along by a beautiful Michael Brook score<ref>{{cite web |author=Peter Debruge |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-saoirse-ronan-in-brooklyn-1201419559/ |title='Brooklyn' Review: Saoirse Ronan Embodies Immigrant Experience |work=Variety |date=2015-01-30 |access-date=2016-02-02 |archive-date=2018-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113093220/https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-saoirse-ronan-in-brooklyn-1201419559/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' praised his "evocative scoring."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/brooklyn-sundance-review-767488 |title='Brooklyn': Sundance Review |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2015-01-27 |access-date=2016-02-02 |archive-date=2019-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328042308/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/brooklyn-sundance-review-767488 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
He was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]] in 1996 for his production work and as a co-artist on [[Pakistan]]i singer [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]'s album ''[[Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album)|Night Song]]''.<ref>Ahmad, Salman. ''Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution.'' New York: Free Press, 2010. 127.</ref>

Brook's soundtrack to ''[[Into the Wild (film)|Into the Wild]]'' was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award]] in 2008.

He also contributed a track to The Edge's soundtrack for the film [[Captive (1986 film)|Captive]] (1986). Brook's Infinite Guitar was later utilized by The Edge on U2's [[The Joshua Tree]] (1987).<ref name=":0" />

Two films that he scored, ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]'' and ''[[Aloft (film)|Aloft]]'', premiered at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/events/sundance/2015/composers/michael-brook.aspx |title=Michael Brook |publisher=Ascap.com |date=2014-06-25 |access-date=2016-02-02 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110111/http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/events/sundance/2015/composers/michael-brook.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

He won [[ASCAP]] awards in 2011 for ''[[The Fighter]]'' and 2013 for ''[[The Vow (2012 film)|The Vow]]''. He won the [[Havana Film Festival]] award for best music in 2011 for ''[[El Infierno]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111649/|title=Michael Brook|website=IMDb.com|access-date=2020-03-04|archive-date=2013-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221050713/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111649/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Selected discography==
===Studio and live albums===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!|Year
!|Artists
!|Title
!|Details
|-
|'''1985'''
| Michael Brook with [[Brian Eno]] and [[Daniel Lanois]]
|'''''[[Hybrid (Michael Brook album)|Hybrid]]'''''
*Released: 26 July 1985
*Label: [[E.G. Records|Editions EG]] <small>(EGED 41)</small>
*Formats: LP, CD
|
|-
|'''1986'''
| [[Jon Hassell]]
|'''''[[Power Spot]]'''''
*Released: 29 September 1986
*Label: [[ECM Records|ECM]] <small>(ECM 1327)</small>
*Formats: LP, CD
| Brook plays infinite guitar on three tracks
|-
|'''1987'''
| [[Pieter Nooten]] and Michael Brook
|'''''[[Sleeps with the Fishes]]'''''
*Released: 12 October 1987
*Label: [[4AD]] <small>(CAD 710)</small>
*Formats: LP, CD
|
|-
|'''1990'''
| [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]
|'''''[[Mustt Mustt]]'''''
*Released: 14 February 1990
*Label: [[Real World Records|Real World]] <small>(RW 15)</small>
*Formats: LP, CD
| First collaboration with Khan; credited only to Khan
|-
|rowspan="2"|'''1992'''
|rowspan="2"|Michael Brook
|'''''[[Cobalt Blue (album)|Cobalt Blue]]'''''
*Released: 1 June 1992
*Label: 4AD <small>(CAD 2007)</small>
*Formats: CD
|rowspan="2"|Reissued together in 1999 as a 2-CD set titled '''''Cobalt Blue & Live at the Aquarium'''''
|-
|'''''Live at the Aquarium - London Zoo 21 May 1992'''''
*Released: 21 September 1992
*Label: 4AD <small>(TAD 2011)</small>
*Formats: limited edition CD
|-
|'''1994'''
| [[David Sylvian]] and [[Robert Fripp]]
|'''''[[Damage: Live]]'''''
*Released: 1 October 1994
*Label: [[Virgin Records|Virgin]] <small>(DAMAGE 1)</small>
*Formats: CD
| Featuring Michael Brook
|-
|rowspan="2"|'''1995'''
| [[U. Srinivas]] and Michael Brook
|'''''Dream'''''
*Released: 29 August 1995
*Label: Real World <small>(RW 47)</small>
*Formats: CD
| Featuring [[Trey Gunn]]
|-
| Michael Brook
|'''''Shona'''''
*Released: 1995
*Label: Sine <small>(SIN002)</small>
*Formats: CD<ref name="ShonaDiscogs">{{cite web |title=Michael Brook - Shona (CD, Album) at Discogs |website=[[Discogs]] |date=1995 |url=http://www.discogs.com/release/229244 |access-date=20 November 2015 |archive-date=9 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109013027/http://www.discogs.com/release/229244 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Unofficial release, recorded live during the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989
|-
|'''1996'''
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook
|'''''[[Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album)|Night Song]]'''''
*Released: 20 February 1996
*Label: Real World <small>(RW 50)</small>
*Formats: CD
| Second collaboration with Khan
|-
|rowspan="2"|'''1997'''
| [[Iarla Ó Lionáird]] with Michael Brook
|'''''The Seven Steps to Mercy (Seacht gCoiscéim Na Trocaire)'''''
*Released: 22 September 1997
*Label: Real World <small>(RW 67)</small>
*Formats: CD
| 
|-
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook
|'''''[[Star Rise|Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook Remixed: Star Rise]]'''''
*Released: 6 October 1997
*Label: Real World <small>(RW 68)</small>
*Formats: CD, 2LP
| Last collaboration with Khan; features remixes of tracks from ''Mustt Mustt'' and ''Night Song''<ref>Reighley, Kurt B. "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook: Remixed" ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' 55 (Mar 1998): 40.</ref>
|-
|'''1998'''
| [[Djivan Gasparyan]] and Michael Brook
|'''''Black Rock'''''
*Released: 7 September 1998
*Label: Real World <small>(RW 73)</small>
*Formats: CD
| 
|-
|'''2001'''
| [[Hukwe Zawose]] and Michael Brook
|'''''Assembly'''''
*Released: 29 October 2001
*Label: Real World <small>(RW 100)</small>
*Formats: CD
| 
|-
|'''2006'''
|rowspan="2"|Michael Brook
|'''''[[RockPaperScissors]]'''''
*Released: 18 July 2006
*Label: Canadian Rational/bigHelium Entertainment <small>(CRBHE002)</small>
*Formats: CD
| 
|-
|'''2007'''
|'''''BellCurve'''''
*Released: 23 October 2007
*Label: Canadian Rational/bigHelium Entertainment <small>(CRBHE010)</small>
*Formats: CD
| Remix album of ''RockPaperScissors'' by James Hood
|-
|'''2008'''
| Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook
|'''''Penumbra'''''
*Released: 23 September 2008
*Label: Canadian Rational <small>(CR 1011)</small>
*Formats: CD
| Second collaboration with Gasparyan
|}

===Soundtracks===
*''[[Captive Soundtrack|Captive]]'' (1986) – co-writer/producer with [[The Edge]].
*''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'' (1995)
*''[[Albino Alligator]]'' (1996)
*''[[Affliction (1997 film)|Affliction]]'' (1997)
*''[[Crime and Punishment in Suburbia]]'' (2000)
*''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]'' (2000)
*''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]'' (2001) - music composed by [[Hans Zimmer]]
*''[[Charlotte Sometimes (film)|Charlotte Sometimes]]'' (2002)
*''[[India: Kingdom of the Tiger]]'' (2002)
*''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'' (2006)
*''Tre'' (2007)
*''[[Into the Wild (film)|Into the Wild]]'' (2007)
*''[[Americanese]]'' (2008)
*''[[Road, Movie]]'' (2009)
*''[[Morning (film)|Morning]]'' (2010)
*''[[9500 Liberty]]'' (2010)
*''[[The Fighter]]'' (2010)
*''[[Country Strong]]'' (2010)
*''[[Hell (2010 film)|El Infierno]]'' (2010)
*''[[Darwin (2011 film)|Darwin]]'' (2011)
*''[[Undefeated (2011 film)|Undefeated]]'' (2011)
*''[[The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film)|The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]'' (2012)
*''[[Cas and Dylan]]'' (2013)
*''[[Aloft (film)|Aloft]]'' (2015)
*''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]'' (2015)
*''[[Tallulah (film)|Tallulah]]'' (2016)
*''[[Stronger (film)|Stronger]]'' (2017)
*''[[My Days of Mercy]]'' (2017)
*''[[Le Brio]]'' (2017)
*''[[Giant Little Ones]]'' (2019)

== See also ==
*[[List of ambient music artists]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.michaelbrookmusic.com Michael Brook's Official Website]
* {{IMDb name|0111649}}

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