Michael Peter Olsen

Michael Peter Olsen performing with Zoon in Toronto August 2021

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,[1] Kevin Hearn, The Constantines, Gentleman Reg, Great Lake Swimmers[2] The Hidden Cameras.[3][4] and Zoon.

He is also well known as a producer and has worked with Ohbijou,[5] and Spiral Beach.[6][7] Olsen was a founder and operator of the Toronto recording studio Uncomfortable Silence.[4]

Olsen currently fronts the Toronto band Our Founders, whose members include Spencer Cole of Weaves.[8] Their album The Nines was released in October 2013.[9]

He was a Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab Resident from 2014 to 2015 in Toronto.[10]

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 [11]

  1. ^ "Jim Guthrie ++ Press". Archived from the original on February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
  2. ^ "Great Lake Swimmers Discography". Archived from the original on February 12, 2010.
  3. ^ "Toronto band began as a "social experiment"". UWO Gazette. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Hidden Cameras: One Nation Under A Fag". Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority. Archived from the original on August 17, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
  5. ^ "Ohbijou". CBC Radio 3. Archived from the original on March 1, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
  6. ^ "Spiral Beach Announce New Album and National Tour". Sparks Music – News. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
  7. ^ "Spiral Beach – The Only Really Thing". Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
  8. ^ "Bands To Watch: Weaves". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  9. ^ "Our Founders". Now. October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  10. ^ "Michael Olsen Bio". CFC. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  11. ^ "Hand Drawn Dracula home".