Flash v.8

you can download the latest player plug-in from Macromedia.com

> > Over on www.michaelbrookmusic.com you can now watch a video stream: [
> > www.michaelbrookmusic.com/rockpaperscissors-5min-video.html ] Michael
> > Brook: The making of RockPaperScissors.
>
> > Bytheway is there someone who can tell me what sort of stream it is
> > (quicktime, realplayer or someting like that). For some strange reason
> > i can't watch it :evil:
> >
> > Fred












Thanks for link, Fred!

To watch this you need to install flash-player.
Or maybe upgrade to last version if you have older
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFl\
ash


Mishka

Over on www.michaelbrookmusic.com you can now watch a video stream: [
www.michaelbrookmusic.com/rockpaperscissors-5min-video.html ] Michael
Brook: The making of RockPaperScissors.

Bytheway is there someone who can tell me what sort of stream it is
(quicktime, realplayer or someting like that). For some strange reason
i can't watch it  :evil:

Fred

Fred,

I will be away in July but I will post the event on
our concert calendar.

Michael - WFITNYC

--- Fred Bruinenberg <fred7691@...> wrote:

> Well for those who live in New York:
>
> http://www.thinkpress.net/brook_tour.html
> July 18 - NEW YORK, NY - Joe's Pub - CD RELEASE
> PARTY
>
> Sheers
>
> Fred
>
> PS....is the list dead?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


Professor Michael J. Cokkinos
Advertising & Marketing Communications
Fashion Institute of Technology
Room B403  Phone 212.217.8472 Fax 212.217.8269

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

So far this is the only i found:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7202982/a/Rockpapersciss
ors.htm

And a review on AMG
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ozpyxdfb6oly
The early 21st century certainly wasn't as fertile a period for
ambient music as, say, the '80s were. But there are a few exceptions,
such as Toronto by way of New York composer/producer/guitarist,
Michael Brook. Although not as dedicated to the ambient genre as say,
Brian Eno once was, Brook's 2006 release, RockPaperScissors, manages
to combine elements of the aforementioned genre with more traditional
pop. Schooled by the likes of Daniel Lanois (Brook once worked as an
engineer at Lanois' studio) and none other than Eno himself — both
appeared on Brook's 1985 debut, Hybrid — RockPaperScissors shows that
Brook obviously picked up a thing or two stylistically from his
mentors. Included is a guest vocal by Lisa Germano on the
airy "Want," as well as a posthumous contribution by Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan on the track "Pond" (Brook utilized some outtake vocals from the
late Pakistani singer — Brook produced Khan's 1994 release, The Last
Prophet). Teetering between ambient and new age at times,
RockPaperScissors sounds like the perfect background soundtrack for
an art gallery opening.

Fred / Netherlands :-)

--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, Antesis <antesis@...> wrote:
>
> Oh no - not dead! Or at least I am here, and grateful for every bit
of news
> from this new recording. Thanks, Fred!
>
> I am really looking forward to this cd - but not any news on the
sites where
> I usually buy cds in US. Have you seen anything?
>
> Best,
> Henrik / Denmark
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/8/06, Fred Bruinenberg <fred7691@...> wrote:
>
> Well for those who live in New York:
>
> http://www.thinkpress.net/brook_tour.html
> July 18 - NEW YORK, NY - Joe's Pub - CD RELEASE PARTY
>
> Sheers
>
> Fred
>
> PS....is the list dead?
>

Well for those who live in New York:

http://www.thinkpress.net/brook_tour.html
July 18 - NEW YORK, NY - Joe's Pub - CD RELEASE PARTY

Sheers

Fred

PS....is the list dead?

Just got a e-mail from bigHelium entertainment and the had this to
say  :

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Fred,

Yes we've been waiting for Michael's new cd for a long time. The
release date is July 18th and it will be available that day on iTunes
and all the other main digital sites as well. And of course in
stores. His new website front page is just up today -
www.michaelbrookmusic.com - perhaps it may be available there earlier
but we can't say for sure yet. He also has samples of his new music
on his myspace site at www.myspace.com/michaelbrook

However Michael did do the music for the "An Inconvenient Truth" the
new Al Gore documentary and although we're not sure about when it
will be available in hard copy I believe it's just up today on iTunes
under Michael Brook.

Touring information is TBA. Hope that works as a beginning, and thank
you for your interest.

All the best,

Bill Janis
bigHelium entertainment
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Fred

ps. there are some beautiful tracks on his myspace site!!

A song sample of the track with Paul Buchanan can be found here:
http://www.bighelium.com/MichaelBrook.htm

"RockPaperScissors"

Track by Track:

Track 1
"StrangeProcession" -- I like that it begins with a Bulgarian choir,
ends with a Lebanese violinist, and has a rock band from Turkey in-
between. It develops at times into a tongue-in-cheek homage to Led
Zeppelin when they were doing their eastern rock thing
(i.e. "Kashmir").

Track 2
"Want" is a collaboration with Lisa Germano and I think she did an
amazing job creating personal and strong lyrics. The scenario for
this song is where someone in a relationship has essentially decided
it's the wrong thing. But they can't end it as the other person is
always happy and they don't want to rain on their parade; or the
person is always sad and they don't want to kick them when they're
down. Richard Evans did a great job of taking the original chord
progression played on a keyboard (which is slightly irregular but has
a very emotional quality) and orchestrating it for the Bulgarian
orchestra. The conductor of the Bulgarian orchestra was fantastic and
had a strong understanding of the feel we were going for, which was a
little more rigorous than romantic. And Lisa's vocal performance is
emotionally involving without being overwrought.

Track 3
"Doges" -- There isn't really a story behind this piece. In general
for me there is not an idea and then the music. I tend to play
randomly and improvise and then something comes out that I like; then
I record and develop it. You work on the music and each time
something there suggests what you should do next. It's an incremental
process and at the start I don't know what the ending will be. It's
making music that sounds good to me at the time.

Track 4
"Dark Room" has an amazing reading in it by Sir Richard Burton. I was
playing the track to Rich Evans and we thought there should be some
spoken word -- something that really appealed to me to try on this
project. I randomly heard a clip of Burton reading something from
Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood"… the power and emotion of his voice,
and the abstract imagery that created with the words, suddenly
brought new life into the music. It's just a list of things but it is
done with such vigor that it creates a hard to specify but moving
experience for me.

The contents of the piece probably sound very weird: Burton
reading "Under Milk Wood", our amazing Lebanese violinist, a
Bulgarian orchestra and then the sort of slightly fake rock music
that I do. I think the thing that pervades the album is an
affectionate but also at times tongue-in-cheek look at rock music,
which is what I grew up listening to and playing. But I find it too
youthful in almost every way these days to hold much interest for me.
Yet it's still what I know how to do, and it's what comes out most of
the time.

Track 5
"RockPaperScissors" is a collaboration with Shira Myrow, a very
talented singer and songwriter whom I saw perform, and was impressed
by her lyrical ability. Then we were lucky enough to get Paul
Buchanan, the extraordinary vocalist from the Blue Nile, to sing on
the track, at Craig Armstrong's studio in Glasgow. The idea behind
this one was how it seems to me that people always envy what other
people have. The title is a sort of metaphor for the idea that what
we don't have always seems more attractive than what we do have.

I think Shira did a great job of taking the intellectual concept and
putting it into a flowing, song-like structure. It was interesting
for me as I tried to edit and add my own lyrical contributions and
found that they seemed flat, pedantic, and intellectual. But her
words convey the ideas and the spirit behind the concept of the song
but do it in an artful way. The music is in a small way an homage to
Timbaland, the producer who does a lot of Missy Elliot's stuff, with
a bit of a hip hop drum beat.

Track 6
"Tangerine" was one of the few pieces that was different in the way
it was created. In some ways I'm from the 52 pick-up school of
composition where I create a bunch of little snippets of ideas and
then I try to compose by editing. But this one actually started as
just a guitar arpeggio. And then the slide guitar, which initially
was the prime melodic force, is just a real time performance. Claude
Chalhoub doubled what the guitar was doing, and in mixing it I have
one or the other or both included it to give light and dark shades.
This piece is actually like what real musicians do. It's like a
performance and I like the simplicity.

Track 7
"LightStar," which I think has turned into a real winner, definitely
had a troubled history. It always felt kind of generic to me and I
felt uncomfortable with it. I was going to throw it out. But then we
asked the traditional Bulgarian choir we were working with to sing
over the music. It is was beautiful and moving, but the second part
of their contribution didn't work with the backing track. So good old
Rich Evans got a friend of his to transcribe what the traditional
song did, and orchestrate it, and he slipped it into a recording
session he was doing in Hungary. So this song has a rock band, a
traditional Bulgarian choir, a classical Bulgarian orchestra for the
first half, and then a classical Hungarian orchestra for the second
half. And then I thought it would be nice to take it to a sort of
dream sequence thing where it drifts in at the end to the choir
sounding like they are coming off an old `78' being broadcast over
the short wave. I really like this piece, it's a journey. What I
enjoy about a lot of this music is that often it doesn't use
repetitive structure.

Track 8
"Pond" -- This has a long and complicated history. It started out as
a just kind of white noise drone with a little dissonant melody in it
played on a synthesizer. Then we had an orchestra play it, which I
liked, and then added piano and percussion, and then added some
outtakes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing, from one of the album
sessions I did with him. This song also has Djivan Gasparayan playing
duduk at the end. Two incredible musicians. Gasparayan is 73-years
old now and is considered a national treasure in Armenia. He's also
always a pleasure to work with.

Track 9
"Silverized" is a kind of transcendental cowboy song. I like the
mixture of elements. There is almost a spaghetti western Marlboro man
guitar, and then an ecstatic growing organ swell with the orchestra,
and then the choir. We were looking for words to have the choir sing
and Rich suggested that they could sing just any old Latin. His wife,
who is an Egyptologist, had a book from her university days of the
writings of Lucretius and I really liked a lot of the things he said
(he was a very skeptical philosopher). It was surprising how few
words you can get out with a choir when they are singing slowly…I
don't think we made it through one paragraph of Lucretius. I think it
ended up sounding really nice and I love the way this piece goes off
on this psychedelic thing at the end. So it's psychedelic,
transcendental, country and spaghetti western music. Sort of.

Tracks 10 & 11
"Pasadena Pt 1 & Pt 2" was a journey. It starts with a great
contribution from London-based singer-songwriter Ben Christophers.
The second part is an orchestral thing that was inspired by Arvo
Part. I really think he's great. He does simple, beautiful music.
Then it has Djivan Gasparyan playing on the third section and at the
very end there are these long sections of Claude Chalhoub. It is
another journey composition which I personally like a lot.

Michael Brook,
May 2006

Coming soon: www.michaelbrook.com

Fred

Great news he is finally back with his third solo album

http://www.thinkpress.net/brook_press.html

MIchael Brook - RockPaperScissors

MICHAEL BROOK, COMPOSER-PRODUCER-INNOVATOR,
READIES THIRD SOLO RELEASE
Features Contributions From Paul Buchanan,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lisa Germano…

LOS ANGELES, CA. – Musicians' musician and sound innovator Michael
Brook has put the finishing touches to his highly anticipated third
solo disc RockPaperScissors due out July 18 on bigHelium/Canadian
Rational. Recorded in Los Angeles, England, Scotland and Bulgaria,
the disc features contributions from renowned artists Richard Evans
(Peter Gabriel), Paul Buchanan (Blue Nile), Claude Chalhoub, Ben
Christophers and Lisa Germano, as well as an exquisite posthumous
collaboration with the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

With several arrangements for full orchestra, and the celebrated
Bulgarian Women's Cosmic Voices choir, the album is the culmination
of three years' work -- which Brook has described as "excavating your
muse!" The sound is unique: beautifully arranged, atmospheric and
ambient elements create the space for his self-
described "deconstructed rock" to flourish.

Collaboration has been at the heart of Brook's career, working with a
diversity of international artists such as Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois,
Youssou N'Dour, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bryan Ferry, and The Pogues, to
scratch the surface. He invented the infinite guitar , as played by
U2's Edge. He has also contributed scores or individual pieces to
movies such as "Heat," "Albino Alligator," and "Affliction".

With his latest collection of songs, Brook worked with co-producer
Richard Evans and an eclectic cast of talent. Lisa Germano's personal
lyrics and haunting vocal set the tone for "Want," while
singer/songwriter Shira Myrow's lyrical contribution to the
infectious title track was interpreted by beloved Blue Nile vocalist
Paul Buchanan.

Widely known to music connoisseurs, Brook feels that
RockPaperScissors is for him, relatively mainstream: "It is
accessible music, more accessible than what I've done in the past."
He adds, "the record is a kind of travelogue… so I hope people find
it evocative and that it takes them somewhere intriguing."

Brook debuted in 1985 with the critically acclaimed Hybrid on EG
Records. His 1992 follow-up Cobalt Blue was released on 4AD along
with the 1993 recording Live at the Aquarium . Recent projects
include production for Jorane (Six Degrees), the music for the much
lauded "Ashes and Snow" exhibition, currently in L.A., and the score
for Paramount Classics' upcoming global warming documentary "An
Inconvenient Truth."

A U.S. tour is planned in support of RockPaperScissors . Details to
follow

Fred

Hi Henrik,

Yes, it's amazing what Yahoo's spam filters let through, isn't it? So what I've
done is
change this to a "Moderated" group, meaning that every message has to be
approved by
me before going out.

And for some actual Michael Brook content: the makers of the documentary "Who
Killed
the Electric Car" emailed me to let me know that Brook did the score. Here's the
official
site:

     http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

Hopefully the forthcoming trailer will offer a taste of the music.

best,
Chad



--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, h@... wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi - even though not much happens here: Is there really no other way to avoid
> these stupid spammails than  to unsubscribe?
>
> henrik
>

Hi - even though not much happens here: Is there really no other way to avoid
these stupid spammails than  to unsubscribe?

henrik

In addition to my previous post....i subscribed to there mailing list
and in the first news letter i got the say this about the label:

All Saints Records is pleased to announce it has changed its
distribution and marketing to Hannibal Records/Rykodisc for the world
with a few exceptions in Japan.  We have made further improvements
and enhancements to all our albums which will be re-released over the
next few months.  And we will continue to release work by these
artists and new acts.

Also it seems the have a competition with every newsletter, this time
you can win Djivan Gasparyan's Moon Shines At Night which have been
unavailable for some time.

Regards

Fred

--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, "richardclarke99"
<richardclarke99@y...> wrote:
> All Saints who don't seem to have released anything at all,
suddenly
> seem to be re-releasing lots of their back catalogue, are they back
in
> action? are all the old crew going to be working on the label
again?
> Also I gather they are rele-releasing Music For Films 3 with added
> tracks but I haven't found what they are, can anyone put me out of
my
> suspense?
> Cheers....

--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, "richardclarke99"
<richardclarke99@y...> wrote:
> Also I gather they are rele-releasing Music For Films 3 with added
> tracks but I haven't found what they are, can anyone put me out of
my
> suspense?
> Cheers....

Hi i have copy and posted your message to another board and i got
some
responce.
After reading them i think this are the extra tracks for the Music
For
Films 3 cd:

(UK AND R.O.W.) - 12. Shark 15 - Brian Eno

(NORTH AMERICA) - 12. Shark 12 - Brian Eno

                   17. Slower And Slower - Roger Eno

This is info you can get from the cataloge site:
http://www.allsaintsrecords.com/MFFIIIN

Regards

Fred

I echo this sentiment.  Maarifa Street is awesome -- a step back to
the "Surgeon of the Nightsky..." and "Power Spot" hybrid of spacey
depth and rhythmic spine, but not at all a rehash.  It is perhaps the
best thing he has released (after only my second listening at this point).

Very much worth tracking down.

Charly in SJ

--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, "richardclarke99"
<richardclarke99@y...> wrote:
> Yes it's really excellent, and thoroughly recommended.

All Saints who don't seem to have released anything at all, suddenly
seem to be re-releasing lots of their back catalogue, are they back in
action? are all the old crew going to be working on the label again?
Also I gather they are rele-releasing Music For Films 3 with added
tracks but I haven't found what they are, can anyone put me out of my
suspense?
Cheers....

Yes it's really excellent, and thoroughly recommended.

anyone heard it yet?


--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Laurie" <angelsegg7@y...> wrote:
>
> Jon Hassell - Maarifa Street
> Label Bleu
> Release Date : March 10, 2005
>
> http://www.metisse-music.com/pages/content/album.php

Jon Hassell - Maarifa Street
Label Bleu
Release Date : March 10, 2005

http://www.metisse-music.com/pages/content/album.php

Hi everyone,

It's the Breakdown webmaster with an extraordinarily rare update!

Just a quick note to let you know I spotted two new Michael Brook tracks on
iTunes. If you
have iTunes, just click on the link and it will open up to where you can buy
each track for
$0.99 to listen to on your computer or an iPod if you have one. (I have no
affiliation with
iTunes, I just happen to really like being able to cherry-pick tracks I want
without having
to buy whole albums full of other stuff)

First, is the  collaboration "Dong Ye" with Ste Wong, from 2002. More info here:
http://
us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1001863094/code-c/section-music/

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?
playlistId=43690067&selectedItemId=43690102

And then there's the brief track from the new Deadwood soundtrack:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?
playlistId=42212400&selectedItemId=42212497

Ahhhhh.....the group still lifes :-)

I got some more info after i ask Gerrit Hillebrand (from
www.davidsylvian.com) if Brook was still part of Opium Arts and if
now a way to get more info on this new album.
Hé sended a mail to Opium and the reply from Opium was this:

"Michael's been working on this on and off for a long, long, time.
It's not even close to being completed yet and we don't know who will
be releasing it."

So we just have to wait i think.

Regards

Fred



--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, chleduc@t... wrote:
> Good news indeed about a new Brook's cd. I knew he produced
Jorane's last CD (and also a
> kind of
> mini-album just before). I'm wondering if it will be more like his
4AD stuff or the Real
> World stuff.. We'll
> see!
>
> Also good to have other news than SPAM, you're right!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Christian

Good news indeed about a new Brook's cd. I knew he produced Jorane's last CD
(and also a
kind of
mini-album just before). I'm wondering if it will be more like his 4AD stuff or
the Real
World stuff.. We'll
see!

Also good to have other news than SPAM, you're right!

Best wishes,

Christian

This is double-good news: 1) Brook is making a new recording, and 2)
something other than spam has been posted here!!  Amazing!

Thank you Fred!

And if there *is* still a moderator or owner for this group...  Is
there a way to permanently delete the obvious spams so that they are
no longer in the web archive?  Just a thought...


Charly in SJ

--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Bruinenberg" <fred7691@h...>
wrote:
>
> This is what i read in the news section on
> http://www.benchristophers.com/news/
>
> LA living Electro / classical Musician Michael Brook,
> who has worked with just about all my influences from Harold Budd to
> David Sylvian, is making his new album at the moment, we met a while
> ago and got talking about doing something together in a guest vocal
> kind of way, so I have made a start and hope to get something done
> before I'm on Tour in a few weeks.
>
> (13th October)
>
> Fred

This is what i read in the news section on
http://www.benchristophers.com/news/

LA living Electro / classical Musician Michael Brook,
who has worked with just about all my influences from Harold Budd to
David Sylvian, is making his new album at the moment, we met a while
ago and got talking about doing something together in a guest vocal
kind of way, so I have made a start and hope to get something done
before I'm on Tour in a few weeks.

(13th October)

Fred

You might be interested in this site.

A fairly complete list of delays/looping devices.

http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/tools.html


On Tuesday, May 11, 2004, at 02:11 AM, chleduc@... wrote:

> It is the classic delay Michael used on most of his records (at least,
> his oldest ones).
> Roughly, it gives
> you up to 16 seconds of delay with a modulation section (like the
> memoryman).  You can
> also use the
> delay in reverse mode. You have two footswitches: Bypass and Infinite
> with put the
> feedback at 100%.
> So, I think it was one of the first digital looper? So you were able
> to record layers of
> loop and then, let
> them fade away with the normal feedback.
>
> I don't know if they will reissue the foot controller though... This
> one had 6
> footswitches to remotely
> control the delay.
>
> Best,
>
> Christian
>
>
>           			 > 16 seconds!  never heard of that one...  My
> original Memory Man is
>> still kickin' I have to give it an occasional smack, which gives me
>> some great effects.  I liken-it to kicking a spring reverb amp.
>>
>> I just checked-out www.ehx.com ... looks like I'll be spending more
>> money.
>>
>>
>> --- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, chleduc@t... wrote:
>>> Hi group,
>>>
>>> Little question for you, I just saw that Electro Harmonix will
>> reissue the classic 16
>>> second delay, does
>>> anyone has some infos?

It is the classic delay Michael used on most of his records (at least, his
oldest ones).
Roughly, it gives
you up to 16 seconds of delay with a modulation section (like the memoryman). 
You can
also use the
delay in reverse mode. You have two footswitches: Bypass and Infinite with put
the
feedback at 100%.
So, I think it was one of the first digital looper? So you were able to record
layers of
loop and then, let
them fade away with the normal feedback.

I don't know if they will reissue the foot controller though... This one had 6
footswitches to remotely
control the delay.

Best,

Christian


          				 > 16 seconds!  never heard of that one...  My
original Memory Man is
> still kickin' I have to give it an occasional smack, which gives me
> some great effects.  I liken-it to kicking a spring reverb amp.
>
> I just checked-out www.ehx.com ... looks like I'll be spending more
> money.
>
>
> --- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, chleduc@t... wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > Little question for you, I just saw that Electro Harmonix will
> reissue the classic 16
> > second delay, does
> > anyone has some infos?
> >
> > By the way, I'm not so keen of Jorane's new album, which Brook
> produced and where Daniel
> > Lanois
> > gave a song. To be perfectly honest, I only really like two
> songs... My mom bought me that
> > in Quebec
> > and gave it to me, here in London. It's probably not available
> elsewhere... I thought that
> > a new
> > Brook/Lanois collaboration sounded great, but well, a little bit
> disappointed... :p
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Christian Leduc
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

16 seconds!  never heard of that one...  My original Memory Man is
still kickin' I have to give it an occasional smack, which gives me
some great effects.  I liken-it to kicking a spring reverb amp.

I just checked-out www.ehx.com ... looks like I'll be spending more
money.


--- In breakdown@yahoogroups.com, chleduc@t... wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Little question for you, I just saw that Electro Harmonix will
reissue the classic 16
> second delay, does
> anyone has some infos?
>
> By the way, I'm not so keen of Jorane's new album, which Brook
produced and where Daniel
> Lanois
> gave a song. To be perfectly honest, I only really like two
songs... My mom bought me that
> in Quebec
> and gave it to me, here in London. It's probably not available
elsewhere... I thought that
> a new
> Brook/Lanois collaboration sounded great, but well, a little bit
disappointed... :p
>
> Best,
>
> Christian Leduc

Hi group,

Little question for you, I just saw that Electro Harmonix will reissue the
classic 16
second delay, does
anyone has some infos?

By the way, I'm not so keen of Jorane's new album, which Brook produced and
where Daniel
Lanois
gave a song. To be perfectly honest, I only really like two songs... My mom
bought me that
in Quebec
and gave it to me, here in London. It's probably not available elsewhere... I
thought that
a new
Brook/Lanois collaboration sounded great, but well, a little bit disappointed...
:p

Best,

Christian Leduc