Michael Peter Olsen
Michael Peter Olsen is a Grammy nominated Canadian multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, composer and arranger currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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 and The Hidden Cameras.
He is also well known as a producer and has worked with critically acclaimed local talent such as 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 under good reviews.
He was a Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab Resident from 2014–2015 in Toronto.
As a solo artist Michael Peter Olsen will be releasing a full-length record entitled "Yearning Flow" in the Spring of 2020 on the Canadian independent label Hand Drawn DraculaSelected performance discography
Drake
- Views
Our Founders
- The Nines
- Ongiara
- Lost Channels
Arcade Fire
- Funeral
- Cold Wind
- Dark Was The Night
- The Hidden Cameras Play the CBC sessions
- The Smell of Our Own
- A Miracle Single CD
- Mississauga Goddam
- Awoo
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K-os
- Joyful Rebellion
Jim Guthrie
- Now, More Than Ever
- Morning Noon Night
Selected production discography
Ohbijou
- Swift Feet for Troubling Times Producer/Engineer
- Ball Co-Producer/Engineer
- The Bonus Disc Producer/Engineer
- The Only Really Thing Producer/Engineer
The Organ
- The Organ Mix Engineer
