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Cobalt Blue

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Michael Brook

 
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    Guitarist Michael Brook has one of the more interesting CVs around. He designed the circuitry for the "infinite guitar" (which gives U2 their signature sound); played on the soundtracks of Mission Impossible, Traffik and Deadwood; and helped shape and define the sound of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Khaled, Youssou N'dour, Djivan Gasparyan, Jane Siberry and Mary Margaret O'Hara. On Cobalt Blue, Brook takes some of the atmospherics and sonic pulses usually associated with Brian Eno, but twists them into his own shapes, shifting the foreground to the background and back again. He's not interested in being a guitar hero so much as the shadings and harmonics of the notes and the spaces between notes. The effect is quietly mesmerizing, like a magician who offers to do your laundry, then makes it disappear.

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