Welcome to my new website. Some of you may observe that it doesn’t look a whole lot different than the old one, which is true. Behind the scenes, however, things have quite radically changed. The main goal, artfully implemented by Nir at 2-Brains.com, has been to make the whole site more open and convenient for contributions from both you and me.

Continue reading »

Penumbra [release date September 23, 2008], the new work by Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook, is many things: East-meets-west, ancient-meets-modern. The album is, by turns, familiar and new, comforting and jarring, sly and moving. Imagine Otis Redding singing Bollywood melodies backed by a surf band. Inventive at every turn, full of surprises and delights and anything but predictable, it is everything implied by the title, a play of shadows and light, mysteries and revelations. Listen »

Buy The CD ($15.99 + S&H)

Download MP3 Album ($12.99)

We are constantly  rebuilding the website. If there are any things that you like or dislike about it we’d be very interested to here your opinions and suggestions here »

Michael’s score for the much-lauded Paramount Vantage movie “Into the Wild” (written and directed by Sean Penn) was nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for a Golden Globe award for Best Score. Michael’s powerful compositions for the film are available via Lakeshore Records and exclusively on Itunes. Listen »

This important and impactful documentary, for which Michael Brook composed and performed the score, was deservedly recognized by the Academy, as was Melissa Etheridge’s powerful end-title song. Listen »

Michael Brook’s solo album is available for digital download and in stores. Bellcurve is a companion piece to RockPaperScissors, one of Amazon.com’s Records of 2006. This reinterpretation by James Hood (Moodswings/Pretenders) will appeal to friends of Air, Zero 7, Pink Floyd and the Buddha Bar series. Listen »

Michael Brook’s 2006 album is his third solo offering. When not recording in his Lavanderia studio located in the Hollywood Hills, Michael and his co-producer, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Rich Evans (of Peter Gabriel’s band) traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria on behalf of this ambitious project, where they recorded local orchestral and choral ensembles. Into this mix, Brook introduced several vocalist/songwriters such as his former 4AD label mate Lisa Germano, Shira Myrow and Paul Buchanan from the Blue Nile.

Listen »