Michael Peter Olsen (born June 28, 1974) is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, composer and arranger currently based in Toronto, Ontario.
Olsen has collaborated live on tour and on records with bands and artists such as Arcade Fire, Drake, K-OS, Jim Guthrie, Kevin Hearn, The Constantines, Gentleman Reg, Great Lake Swimmers The Hidden Cameras. and Zoon.
He is also well known as a producer and has worked with Ohbijou, and Spiral Beach. Olsen was a founder and operator of the Toronto recording studio Uncomfortable Silence.
Olsen currently fronts the Toronto band Our Founders, whose members include Spencer Cole of Weaves. Their album The Nines was released in October 2013.
He was a Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab Resident from 2014 to 2015 in Toronto.
As a solo artist, Olsen released a full-length record titled "Yearning Flow" in the spring of 2021 on the Canadian independent label Hand Drawn Dracula
Selected performance discography
Drake
- Views (2016)
Our Founders
- The Nines (2013)
The Great Lake Swimmers
- Ongiara (2007)
- Lost Channels (2009)
Arcade Fire
- Funeral (2004)
- Cold Wind (2005)
- Dark Was the Night (2009)
Hidden Cameras
- The Hidden Cameras Play the CBC Sessions (2002)
- The Smell of Our Own (2003)
- A Miracle (2003)
- Mississauga Goddam (2004)
- Awoo (2006)
- Origin:Orphan (2009)
K-os
- Joyful Rebellion (2004)
Jim Guthrie
- Now, More Than Ever (2003)
- Morning Noon Night (2003)
Selected production discography
Ohbijou
- Swift Feet for Troubling Times (2006), Producer/Engineer
Spiral Beach
- Ball (Sparks/EMI, 2007), Co-Producer/Engineer
- The Bonus Disc (Sparks/EMI, 2008), Producer/Engineer
- The Only Really Thing (Sparks/EMI, 2009), Producer/Engineer
The Organ
- The Organ (Mint Records/604, 2008), Mix Engineer
References
- "Jim Guthrie ++ Press". Archived from the original on February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- "Great Lake Swimmers Discography". Archived from the original on February 12, 2010.
- "Toronto band began as a "social experiment"". UWO Gazette. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- ^ "Hidden Cameras: One Nation Under A Fag". Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority. Archived from the original on August 17, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- "Ohbijou". CBC Radio 3. Archived from the original on March 1, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- "Spiral Beach Announce New Album and National Tour". Sparks Music – News. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
- "Spiral Beach – The Only Really Thing". Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- "Bands To Watch: Weaves". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- "Our Founders". Now. October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- "Michael Olsen Bio". CFC. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- "Hand Drawn Dracula home".