Michael Olsen

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, Kevin Hearn, The Constantines, Gentleman Reg, Great Lake Swimmers, The Hidden Cameras, and Zoon.

He is also well known as a producer and has worked with Ohbijou, and Spiral Beach. Olsen was a founder and operator of the Toronto recording studio Uncomfortable Silence. Their album The Nines was released in October 2013.

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

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.

Selected performance discography

Drake Views (2016)

Our Founders The Nines (2013)

The Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara (2007) Lost Channels (2009)

Arcade Fire Funeral (2004) Cold Wind (2005) Dark Was the Night (2009)

Hidden Cameras The Hidden Cameras Play the CBC Sessions (2002) The Smell of Our Own (2003) A Miracle (2003) Mississauga Goddam (2004) Awoo (2006) Origin:Orphan (2009)

K-os Joyful Rebellion (2004)

Jim Guthrie Now, More Than Ever (2003) Morning Noon Night (2003)

Selected production discography

Ohbijou Swift Feet for Troubling Times (2006), Producer/Engineer

Spiral Beach Ball (Sparks/EMI, 2007), Co-Producer/Engineer The Bonus Disc (Sparks/EMI, 2008), Producer/Engineer The Only Really Thing (Sparks/EMI, 2009), Producer/Engineer

The Organ The Organ (Mint Records/604, 2008), Mix Engineer