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Daniel Lanois (born September 19, 1951 in Hull
Hull, Quebec

Hull is the central and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 record producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter

File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan crop.jpgSinger-songwriter is a term that refers to performers who Lyricist, composer and singing their own Musical piece including lyrics and melody....
. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club, U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
, Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
, Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland

Not to be confused with Scott WeingerScott Weiland is an United States musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning United States rock band Stone Temple Pilots , and also for his five-year career with Supergroup Velvet Revolver....
, Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor

Sin?ad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is a Grammy Award-winning Ireland singer-songwriter....
, Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine?s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
, the Neville Brothers
The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
, Chris Whitley
Chris Whitley

Christopher Becker Whitley was an iconic United States singer, songwriter and guitarist.Highly acclaimed by music journalism, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following....
, Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon Sexsmith is a Canada singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985....
, Martha and the Muffins
Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canada new wave music synth pop musical band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, the core members of the band also charted internationally as M + M....
 and Nash the Slash
Nash the Slash

Nash the Slash is a Canada progressive rock, european classical music, and Alternative rock musician. Though a multi-instrumentalist, he is known primarily for playing electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, Keyboard instrument, glockenspiel, and other instruments ....
.

Biography
He started his production career working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois
Bob Lanois

Robert Lanois better known as Bob Lanois is a Canadian harmonica player who in 2006 released his first album, Snake Road, with his brother Daniel Lanois....
 in the basement of their mother's Ancaster
Ancaster, Ontario

Ancaster is a residential community in the southwest of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with which it amalgamation in 2001. It is considered and known to be the most upscale and wealthy of all Hamilton communities....
, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
 home.






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Daniel Lanois (born September 19, 1951 in Hull
Hull, Quebec

Hull is the central and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 record producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter

File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan crop.jpgSinger-songwriter is a term that refers to performers who Lyricist, composer and singing their own Musical piece including lyrics and melody....
. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club, U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
, Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
, Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland

Not to be confused with Scott WeingerScott Weiland is an United States musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning United States rock band Stone Temple Pilots , and also for his five-year career with Supergroup Velvet Revolver....
, Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor

Sin?ad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is a Grammy Award-winning Ireland singer-songwriter....
, Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine?s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
, the Neville Brothers
The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
, Chris Whitley
Chris Whitley

Christopher Becker Whitley was an iconic United States singer, songwriter and guitarist.Highly acclaimed by music journalism, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following....
, Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon Sexsmith is a Canada singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985....
, Martha and the Muffins
Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canada new wave music synth pop musical band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, the core members of the band also charted internationally as M + M....
 and Nash the Slash
Nash the Slash

Nash the Slash is a Canada progressive rock, european classical music, and Alternative rock musician. Though a multi-instrumentalist, he is known primarily for playing electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, Keyboard instrument, glockenspiel, and other instruments ....
.

Biography


He started his production career working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois
Bob Lanois

Robert Lanois better known as Bob Lanois is a Canadian harmonica player who in 2006 released his first album, Snake Road, with his brother Daniel Lanois....
 in the basement of their mother's Ancaster
Ancaster, Ontario

Ancaster is a residential community in the southwest of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with which it amalgamation in 2001. It is considered and known to be the most upscale and wealthy of all Hamilton communities....
, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
 home. The most notable artist to record in their basement studio was Simply Saucer
Simply Saucer

Simply Saucer was a Canada rock band, active in the 1970s. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, the band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Edgar Breau, keyboardist John LaPlante , bass guitarist Kevin Christoff and drummer Neil DeMarchant....
. Later Daniel would create a studio in an old house he purchased known as Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the James Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe....
. He worked with a number of local bands, most notably Martha and the Muffins
Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canada new wave music synth pop musical band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, the core members of the band also charted internationally as M + M....
 (for whom his sister Jocelyne
Jocelyne Lanois

Jocelyne Lanois is a Canadian musician, bassplayer and songwriter , who has been a member of the bands Martha and the Muffins and Crash Vegas. She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani Difranco and Chris Whitley and played on Sarah Maclaclin's album "Solace"....
 played bass), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.

Lanois worked collaboratively with Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
 on some of Eno's own projects, one of which was the theme song for David Lynch's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. His career was given a huge boost when Eno invited him to co-produce U2's album The Unforgettable Fire
The Unforgettable Fire

The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in 1984. Far more ambient and abstract than the hard-hitting War , it was at the time the band?s most marked change in direction, featuring atmospheric sounds and lyrics Bono has described as "sketches"....
. Along with Eno, he went on to produce U2's The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland....
, the 1987 Grammy Winner for Album of the Year. Bono
Bono

Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
 of U2 recommended Lanois to Bob Dylan in the late 1980s; in 1989 Lanois produced Dylan's Oh Mercy
Oh Mercy

Oh Mercy is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 26th studio album, released in 1989 by Columbia Records.Produced by Daniel Lanois, critics hailed the record as a triumph for Dylan, after a string of poorly-reviewed albums....
, widely considered one of Dylan's greatest later albums. Eight years later Dylan and Lanois worked together on Time Out of Mind
Time out of Mind

Time Out of Mind is Bob Dylan's 30th studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. It was his first double album studio album since 1970's Self Portrait ....
, Dylan's first studio album of original material since 1990, which won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year
Grammy Award for Album of the Year

The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer....
 in 1997.

In 1993, Lanois participated in the Another Roadside Attraction
Another Roadside Attraction (festival)

Another Roadside Attraction is a now defunct travelling music-and-arts summer festival developed by The Tragically Hip, the first of which took place in 1993....
 tour in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, and collaborated with The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip is a Canada Rock music Musical ensemble from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay ....
, Crash Vegas
Crash Vegas

Crash Vegas was a noted Canada folk rock band which formed in 1988, and achieved moderate success in the early 1990s.The band was formed by Michelle McAdorey and Greg Keelor, of Blue Rodeoin 1988....
, Hothouse Flowers
Hothouse Flowers

The Hothouse Flowers are an Ireland rock and roll group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from Soul music, Gospel music and rock music....
 and Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
 on the one-off single "Land
Land (song)

"Land" was a one-off charity single released in 1993, credited to The Tragically Hip, Midnight Oil, Crash Vegas, Hothouse Flowers and Daniel Lanois....
" to protest forest clearcutting
Clearcutting

Clearcutting or clearfelling is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all of all trees in a harvest area are cut down. It is a controversial practice....
 in British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
.

In his autobiographical Chronicles, Vol. 1
Chronicles, Vol. 1

Chronicles, Volume One is the first part of Bob Dylan's planned 3-volume memoir. Published on October 5, 2004 by Simon & Schuster, the 304 page volume covers selected points from Dylan's long career....
, Dylan describes in depth the contentious but rewarding working relationship he developed with Lanois. Dylan's account goes a long way to explain why Lanois is held in high regard by serious musicians.

Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris album)

Wrecking Ball is a 1995 Emmylou Harris album that found the country music singer veering away from the traditional acoustic sound for which she'd become known, to team up with rock producer Daniel Lanois ....
, his 1995 collaboration with Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, received almost unanimous critical praise (many critics placed the album on their year-end "best albums of the year" lists), and revived the aging country artist's career, bringing her to the attention of much younger rock audiences; it would go on to win a 1996 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

As well as being a producer, singer and songwriter, Lanois plays the guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, pedal steel and drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
. His wide range of talents are put to use on many of the albums he produces, where he often leaves his atmospheric and emotionally resonant signature sound.

In 2005 he was inducted into . He worked on Dashboard Confessional
Dashboard Confessional

Dashboard Confessional is an United States Rock music band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The band started out with Carrabba solely playing intimately personal acoustic songs, and eventually became a full band ensemble....
's 2006 album, Dusk and Summer
Dusk and Summer

Dusk and Summer is the fourth studio album recorded by the band Dashboard Confessional. It was released on June 27, 2006 on Vagrant Records....
, but the producing duties were later taken over by Don Gilmore
Don Gilmore

Don Gilmore is a music producer. He is particularly known for his work on the first two Linkin Park albums, Hybrid Theory and Meteora ....
.

Both Emmylou Harris and Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews

David John Matthews is a South African-United States Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band, but he has also worked as a solo artist, and with other musicians such as Tim Reynolds and Trey Anastasio....
 have been known to regularly cover his songs during their live performances. The Jerry Garcia Band
Jerry Garcia Band

The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side-projects until his death in 1995....
 used to perform "The Maker" in concert in the early 1990s.

Lanois premiered a documentary entitled "Here Is What Is" at the Toronto Film Festival on September 9, 2007. The film, co-produced by Adam Vollick, includes footage of the actual recording of the album bearing the same name. The film also shows Lanois' usual collaboators such as Emmylou Harris, Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton is an American screenwriter, actor and occasional Film director, playwright and singer. His rise to fame began in the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, for which he won an Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay; he has since established a successful career as a film actor in...
, U2, Brian Eno and Brian Blade
Brian Blade

Brian Blade is an United States jazz drummer, composer, and singer-songwriter....
. There are also guest appearances by Garth Hudson
Garth Hudson

Eric Garth Hudson is a Canada musician. As the organ and keyboard instrument for Canada-American Rock music group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound....
 and Brady Blade Sr. Subsequent concert performances showcasing the new material were held in Toronto on the 10th and 11th, with Brian Blade
Brian Blade

Brian Blade is an United States jazz drummer, composer, and singer-songwriter....
 on drums. The CD Here Is What Is was released in the spring of 2008; Lanois had previously made it available as a high-quality web download, via his new Red Floor Records label.

At the 29th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

The Festival International de Jazz de Montr?al , also called the Jazz Fest, is the largest jazz festival in the world....
, Lanois played four evening concerts at three venues and met fans for a question and answer session at the Salon des instruments de musique de Montréal.

In September 2008, Daniel Lanois headlined Niagara Ontario's annual Wine Festival.

From June 2007 – December 2008, Lanois collaborated with U2 and Brian Eno on No Line on the Horizon, where he was involved in the songwriting process as well as mixing and production.

Musical instruments


Since the late 1990s, Lanois's main stage guitar has been a 1953 Gibson Les Paul
Les Paul

Les Paul is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible." His many recording innovations include overdubbing, Delay such as "sound on sound" and Delay , Phaser , and multitrack recording....
 Gold Top with the original P-90 pickups, modified for a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge. He also owns and has recorded with several '50s and '60s Fender guitars, including a 1958 Stratocaster. His main stage amplifier is a Vox
Vox (musical equipment)

Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer which is most famous for making the Vox AC30 Instrument amplifier, the Vox electric organ, and a series of innovative but commercially unsuccessful electric guitars and bass guitars....
 AC/30, often driven by the preamp of a Korg
Korg

is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronics musical instruments and electronic tuners. The company is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide....
 SDD-3000 Digital Delay unit and Chandler Tube Driver. A late '50s Fender Bassman 4x10 combo has also been part of both his road and recording kits. His collection of acoustic guitars features examples dating back to the 1920s, including models from Martin, Gibson and Guild.

Discography

  • Acadie
    Acadie (album)

    Acadie is the debut album by record producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois. It was largely written and recorded in the city of New Orleans....
    , 1989
  • For the Beauty of Wynona
    For the Beauty of Wynona

    For the Beauty of Wynona is the second album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was released in 1993 .The album cover photograph was taken by renowned Czech artist Jan Saudek....
    , 1993
  • Sweet Angel Mine, 1996
  • Lost in Mississippi, 1996
  • Sling Blade
    Sling Blade

    Sling Blade is an Academy Award-winning drama film set in rural Arkansas, written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton.It tells the story of a mental retardation man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old....
     (soundtrack)    , 1996
  • Shine
    Shine (Daniel Lanois album)

    Shine is a 2003 album by songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was his first solo effort in ten years....
    , 2003
  • Rockets, 2004
  • Belladonna, 2005
  • Here Is What Is, 2007
  • The Omni Series (Steel, Santiago, Purple Vista), 2008


Videography

  • Rocky World, 1993
  • Here Is What Is, 2007


Production credits

  • Demo - Simply Saucer
    Simply Saucer

    Simply Saucer was a Canada rock band, active in the 1970s. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, the band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Edgar Breau, keyboardist John LaPlante , bass guitarist Kevin Christoff and drummer Neil DeMarchant....
    , 1974 (not released commercially until 1989, on the album Cyborgs Revisited
    Cyborgs Revisited

    Cyborgs Revisited is an album by Simply Saucer, released in 1989 on Mole Sound Records and Cargo Records. It was compiled from various archival recordings by the band, who had only ever released one 7" single before breaking up in 1979....
    )
  • Blues and Sentimental - Jackie Washington
    Jackie Washington

    Jackie Washington is a legendary Canada blues musician. His first release was Blues and Sentimental in June of 1976. Jackie had the distinction of becoming Canada's first black Disk Jockey in 1948, at CHML Radio in Hamilton....
    , 1976 (As "Dan Lanois")
  • More Singable Songs
    More Singable Songs

    More Singable Songs is a music album by popular music children's entertainer Raffi , released in 1977. The sequel to Singable Songs for the Very Young, the album shares many of the same qualities as its predecessor, such as its composition, a mixture of traditional and original songs....
     - Raffi
    Raffi

    Raffi may refer to:* Raffi , children's musician, entertainer and troubadour* Raffi , the pen name for Hakob Melik-Hakobian , Armenian author and poet...
    , 1977 (Recording credit as "Dan Lanois")
  • Can't Wait For Summer - Ron Neilson, 1978
  • Choice Cuts
    Choice Cuts

    Choice Cuts is a compilation by Carcass . It was released in 2004....
     - Crackers, 1978 (As "Dan Lanois")
  • This is the Ice Age
    This Is the Ice Age

    This is the Ice Age was Martha and the Muffins' third album, released on LP and cassette in 1981. The track "Women Around the World at Work" was released as a single in the United Kingdom and Canada....
     - Martha and the Muffins
    Martha and the Muffins

    Martha and the Muffins are a Canada new wave music synth pop musical band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, the core members of the band also charted internationally as M + M....
    , 1981
  • Dream Away - Bernie LaBarge
    Bernie LaBarge

    Bernie LaBarge is a Canada guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
    , 1981
  • Mama Quilla, KKK, Angry Young Woman - 3-song 12" Album- 1982, Mama Quilla II
    Mama Quilla II

    The rock band Mama Quilla II first performed together in 1977 in Toronto, Ontario and dissolved in 1982....
  • Dance After Curfew - Nash the Slash
    Nash the Slash

    Nash the Slash is a Canada progressive rock, european classical music, and Alternative rock musician. Though a multi-instrumentalist, he is known primarily for playing electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, Keyboard instrument, glockenspiel, and other instruments ....
    , 1982
  • Danseparc
    Danseparc

    Danseparc was Martha and the Muffins' fourth album, recorded in 1982 at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, Canada and released in 1983....
     - Martha and the Muffins
    Martha and the Muffins

    Martha and the Muffins are a Canada new wave music synth pop musical band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, the core members of the band also charted internationally as M + M....
    , 1982
  • Ambient 4/On Land
    On Land

    Ambient 4/On Land is an album by the United Kingdom Ambient music musician Brian Eno. It was the final edition in Eno?s ambient series, which began in 1978 with Music for Airports....
     - Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
    , 1982
  • Parachute Club - Parachute Club, 1983
  • Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
    Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks

    Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is an album by the United Kingdom ambient musician Brian Eno. It was written, produced, and performed by Brian Eno, his brother Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois....
     - Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
    , 1983
  • The Pearl
    The Pearl (album)

    The Pearl is an long play by Ambient music musicians Harold Budd and Brian Eno, which was released in 1984. This album is similar to Budd and Eno?s previous collaboration Ambient 2/The Plateaux of Mirror, consisting mostly of subtly treated piano textures, but this time with more pronounced electronic treatments and nature recordings....
     - Harold Budd
    Harold Budd

    Harold Budd is an American ambient music/avant-garde composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires....
     and Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
    , 1984
  • Mystery Walk
    Mystery Walk

    Mystery Walk is a 1984 album by Martha and the Muffins, produced by Daniel Lanois....
     - M + M
    Martha and the Muffins

    Martha and the Muffins are a Canada new wave music synth pop musical band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, the core members of the band also charted internationally as M + M....
    , 1984
  • The Unforgettable Fire
    The Unforgettable Fire

    The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in 1984. Far more ambient and abstract than the hard-hitting War , it was at the time the band?s most marked change in direction, featuring atmospheric sounds and lyrics Bono has described as "sketches"....
     - U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , 1984
  • Secrets and Sins - Luba
    Luba (singer)

    Luba is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Growing up, she studied voice, guitar, flute, and piano; she later travelled across Canada to perform traditional Ukraine folk songs at weddings and social gatherings....
    , 1984
  • Thursday Afternoon
    Thursday Afternoon

    Thursday Afternoon is a 1985 album by the United Kingdom Ambient music musician Brian Eno consisting of one 61-minute composition of the same name....
     - Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
    , 1985
  • Hybrid - Michael Brook
    Michael Brook

    Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, Record producer, and film music composer familiar with many disciplines including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....
    , 1985
  • Birdy
    Birdy (album)

    Birdy is the first soundtrack and sixth album overall by United Kingdom rock music musician Peter Gabriel, for the movie of the Birdy , released in 1985 ....
     - Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
    , 1985
  • Voices - Roger Eno
    Roger Eno

    Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient music composer.He began euphonium lessons at twelve and at sixteen entered Colchester College to study music....
    , 1985
  • Power Spot - Jon Hassell
    Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell is an United States trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound....
    , 1986
  • So
    So (album)

    So is the fifth studio album by United Kingdom rock music musician Peter Gabriel, released in 1986. Many of its songs reflect a more conventional pop-writing style and became radio hits, others still retain Gabriel's dark, brooding sense of experimentalism....
     - Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
    , 1986
  • The Joshua Tree
    The Joshua Tree

    The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland....
     - U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , 1987
  • Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson (album)

    Robbie Robertson is the self-titled solo debut by Robbie Robertson, released in 1987. The album won the Juno Awards of 1989 for "Juno Award for Album of the Year", and producers Lanois and Robertson won the "Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award" Juno award, both in 1989 as there were no Juno Awards held in 1988....
     - Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson

    Robbie Robertson is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine?s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
    , 1987
  • Acadie
    Acadie (album)

    Acadie is the debut album by record producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois. It was largely written and recorded in the city of New Orleans....
     - Daniel Lanois, 1989
  • Oh Mercy
    Oh Mercy

    Oh Mercy is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 26th studio album, released in 1989 by Columbia Records.Produced by Daniel Lanois, critics hailed the record as a triumph for Dylan, after a string of poorly-reviewed albums....
     - Bob Dylan, 1989
  • Yellow Moon - Neville Brothers, 1989
  • Home - Hothouse Flowers
    Hothouse Flowers

    The Hothouse Flowers are an Ireland rock and roll group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from Soul music, Gospel music and rock music....
    , 1990
  • Achtung Baby
    Achtung Baby

    Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. It was released on 19 November 1991, nearly two years after lead vocalist Bono announced the band would have to "go away and dream it all up again", following the mixed response to 1988's Rattle and Hum and their own sense of musical stagnation....
     - U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , 1991
  • Flash of the Spirit - Jon Hassell
    Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell is an United States trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound....
     and Farafina
    Farafina

    Farafina is a music and dance group from Burkina Faso, established in 1978. The eight-member group is Burkina Faso's best known musical group, and one of Africa's most internationally prominent musical groups....
    , 1992
  • Us
    Us (Peter Gabriel album)

    Us is the sixth studio album by United Kingdom Rock music musician Peter Gabriel, originally released in 1992. It was remastered, with most of Gabriel's catalogue, in 2002....
     - Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
    , 1992
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time....
     - movie soundtrack, 1992
  • For the Beauty of Wynona
    For the Beauty of Wynona

    For the Beauty of Wynona is the second album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was released in 1993 .The album cover photograph was taken by renowned Czech artist Jan Saudek....
     - Daniel Lanois, 1993
  • Ron Sexsmith
    Ron Sexsmith (album)

    Ron Sexsmith is the major label debut album of Canada singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1995....
     - Ron Sexsmith
    Ron Sexsmith

    Ronald Eldon Sexsmith is a Canada singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985....
    , 1994
  • Wrecking Ball
    Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris album)

    Wrecking Ball is a 1995 Emmylou Harris album that found the country music singer veering away from the traditional acoustic sound for which she'd become known, to team up with rock producer Daniel Lanois ....
     - Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris

    Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
    , 1995
  • Night to Night - Geoffrey Oryema
    Geoffrey Oryema

    Geoffrey Oryema is an internationally renowned Uganda musician. In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life in exile....
    , 1996
  • Fever In Fever Out
    Fever In Fever Out

    Fever In Fever Out is an album by the group Luscious Jackson, released on the Grand Royal record label in 1996 .This album is most well-known for the track "Naked Eye", which enjoyed some success in the Top 40....
     - Luscious Jackson
    Luscious Jackson

    Luscious Jackson was an Alternative rock/pop-rock group formed in 1991. They are named after now-retired United States basketball player Lucious Jackson, whose name was mispronounced "luscious" during a sportscast....
    , 1996
  • Time Out of Mind
    Time out of Mind

    Time Out of Mind is Bob Dylan's 30th studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. It was his first double album studio album since 1970's Self Portrait ....
     - Bob Dylan, 1997
  • Brian Blade Fellowship - Brian Blade
    Brian Blade

    Brian Blade is an United States jazz drummer, composer, and singer-songwriter....
    , 1998
  • 12 Bar Blues
    12 Bar Blues (album)

    12 Bar Blues is the debut solo album from Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Its sound and style differs greatly from his band's releases....
     - Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland

    Not to be confused with Scott WeingerScott Weiland is an United States musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning United States rock band Stone Temple Pilots , and also for his five-year career with Supergroup Velvet Revolver....
    , 1998
  • Teatro - Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson

    Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
    , 1998
  • The Million Dollar Hotel
    The Million Dollar Hotel

    The Million Dollar Hotel is 2000 in film drama film based on a concept story by Bono of U2 and Nicholas Klein, and directed by Wim Wenders. It stars Jeremy Davies , Milla Jovovich and Mel Gibson....
     - movie soundtrack, 2000
  • All That You Can't Leave Behind
    All That You Can't Leave Behind

    All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by the Republic Ireland Rock music band U2, released in 2000 by Island Records in the United Kingdom and Interscope Records in the United States The album signaled the band's return to a more traditional sound after their experimentation with alternative rock and electronic dance m...
     - U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , 2000
  • How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in November 2004. Much like their previous album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was commercially successful and critically acclaimed and maintains a more traditional rock sound after t...
     - U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , 2004 (track "Love and Peace or Else")
  • Dusk & Summer - Dashboard Confessional
    Dashboard Confessional

    Dashboard Confessional is an United States Rock music band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The band started out with Carrabba solely playing intimately personal acoustic songs, and eventually became a full band ensemble....
    , 2006 (also produced by Don Gilmore
    Don Gilmore

    Don Gilmore is a music producer. He is particularly known for his work on the first two Linkin Park albums, Hybrid Theory and Meteora ....
    )
  • loudQUIETloud, A film about the pixies - movie soundtrack, 2006
  • "Back Where You Belong" - Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor

    Sin?ad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is a Grammy Award-winning Ireland singer-songwriter....
    , 2007.
  • Snake Road - Bob Lanois
    Bob Lanois

    Robert Lanois better known as Bob Lanois is a Canadian harmonica player who in 2006 released his first album, Snake Road, with his brother Daniel Lanois....
  • No Line on the Horizon - U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , 2009.


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    George Stroumboulopoulos

    George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canada television and radio personality, and best known as the host of CBC Television's The Hour, a late-night talk show about the world's current events....
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