Hybrid (Michael Brook album) explained

Hybrid
Type:	studio
Artist:	Michael Brook with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois
Cover:	Brook-hybrid.jpg
Released:	26 July 1985
Studio:	Bob and Daniel Lanois Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Genre:	Ambient, IDM
Length:	41:56
Label:	Editions EG EGED 41^[1]
Producer:	Michael Brook, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
Chronology:	Michael Brook
Next Title:	Sleeps with the Fishes
Next Year:	1987

Hybrid is the debut album by Canadian guitarist Michael Brook in collaboration with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.^{[2] [3]} It was released in 1985 on Editions EG.

A specialist in timbre and texture, Brook pioneered the infinite guitar—a guitar outfitted with a feedback transducer to produce non-decaying sustain of any note—which makes its first notable appearance on this album.^[4]

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote that the album "includes hints of Middle Eastern singing and African drumming, subsumed into sustained sounds from Mr. Brook's guitar and Brian Eno's keyboard, all in a misty, faraway sound mix."^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Michael Brook.

1. "Hybrid" – 6:18
2. "Distant Village" – 4:03
3. "Mimosa" – 6:20
4. "Pond Life" – 3:40
5. "Ocean Motion" – 5:50
6. "Midday" – 5:59
7. "Earth Floor" – 4:45
8. "Vacant" – 5:00

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michael Brook . Trouser Press . 2020-05-31.
2. Book: Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World - Timothy D. Taylor - Google Books . 5 March 2007. 978-0822389972 . 2020-05-31. Taylor . Timothy D. . Duke University Press .
3. Kane. Peter. 5 March 1991. Stories. Q Magazine. 55. 11.
4. Web site: Eternal Recurrence: The Infinite Guitar . Fender.com . 2020-05-31.
5. Web site: Jon Pareles . 'New Age' Music Just Keeps Oozing Along - The New York Times . . 1985-09-29 . 2020-05-31.