Michael Brook - Embattled (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2020

Tracks list

The innovative guitarist and producer Michael Brook was born and raised in
Toronto. While studying electronic music and the arts at the University of
Toronto, he met trumpter Jon Hassell, with whom he later toured; through
Hassell, Brook also was introduced to minimalist composer LaMonte Young, under
whom he studied Indian music. A period working as the house engineer at producer
Daniel Lanois famed Grant Avenue recording studio led to a tenure playing guitar
with the Canadian pop band Martha and the Muffins during the late 70s; at the
same time, Brook also met Brian Eno, guesting on the 1980 Eno/Hassell
collaboration Possible Musics. In 1983, he also played on Harold Budds Magic
Realism.

In 1985 Brook made his solo debut with Hybrid, an influential ethno-ambient work
recorded with Eno that discovered the middle ground between Western and Indian
musical aesthetics and established his unique, heavily-processed infinite guitar
sound. He spent much of the remaining decade working with Eno, helping create
video sculptures and sound installations across the globe; he also became a
sought-after producer, helming records for such diverse talents as Roger Eno,
Pieter Nooten, Mary Margaret OHara, Balloon, and the Pogues. In 1990, Brook
returned to world music, producing Youssou NDours acclaimed Set; more
importantly, he began a continuing collaboration with Pakistani qawaali singer
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the seminal Mustt Mustt, a fusion of Western ambient
and pop sounds with the sacred spiritual music of the East.

After producing Khaled, a 1991 project for the Algerian rai vocalist Cheb
Khaled, Brook returned to the studio to record his first solo effort in seven
years, 1992s stellar Cobalt Blue; a rare concert performance given at a party
celebrating the albums release was subsequently issued as the limited-edition
Live at the Aquarium. A pair of projects with the Indian mandolin wizard U.
Srinvas, 1994s Rama Sreemrama and the next years Dream, followed; in 1996, Brook
reunited with Ali Khan for Night Song, trailed by work on the score for the
Kevin Spacey-directed crime noir Albino Alligator.

Tracklist:
01. Michael Brook - Meet Cash (1:46)
02. Michael Brook - Coming Home (2:08)
03. Michael Brook - Sparring With Cash (1:11)
04. Michael Brook - We Need Money (1:04)
05. Michael Brook - Puppet Show (1:08)
06. Michael Brook - Beat Up (2:43)
07. Michael Brook - Drinking And Driving 101 (1:15)
08. Michael Brook - Schoolwork (0:51)
09. Michael Brook - Abuse At Home (3:01)
10. Michael Brook - Viral Video (2:29)
11. Michael Brook - Welcome To Holland (1:31)
12. Michael Brook - Fight My Own Son (1:06)
13. Michael Brook - I’m Done (1:08)
14. Michael Brook - Leaving For Training (1:12)
15. Michael Brook - Fight Announcement (2:07)
16. Michael Brook - I’m Sorry Baby (2:22)
17. Michael Brook - The Phone Call (1:12)
18. Michael Brook - The Fight (2:01)
19. Michael Brook - Remember How That Feels, Sport? (2:54)
20. Michael Brook - Saved By the Bell (1:21)
21. Michael Brook - Suplex (0:30)
22. Michael Brook - Aftermath (4:08)

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