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Ian Brennan
Politics & Prose Live! Ian Brennan | MUSE SICK with Judith Heumann
Politics & Prose September 25th, 2021 Grammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan’s seventh book, Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine…
Tom Wilson: An Unsung Hero of the Studio
By Ian Brennan TapeOp May/June 2021 That an African American man played a massive and pivotal role in three seminal…
Ian Brennan’s New Album Is A Unique Look At The Comoros Islands
By NPR Weekend EditionMay 22nd, 2021 NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to producer Ian Brennan about the new album, We are…
Witch Camp (Ghana): I’ve Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be review – magical sound of the marginalised
By Dorian LynskeyThe GuardianMarch 13th, 2021 (Six Degrees)Sung in little-spoken Ghanaian dialects, these haunting, spontaneous songs by women accused of…
Gurrumul, Omar Souleyman, 9Bach and DakhaBrakha: the best global artists the Grammys forgot
By Ian BrennanThe GuardianMarch 11th, 2021 Lebanon’s Mashrou’ Leila, Japan’s OOIOO and Syria’s Omar Souleyman are among artists from regions…
The Grammys have a major problem with global diversity. Lip service isn’t going to solve it
By Ian BrennanThe GuardianMarch 10th, 2021 Renaming the world music category does little to fix its pattern of exclusion, which…
Songwriter U: The Highs of Lo-Fi
By Ian BrennanAmerican SongwriterFebruary 22nd, 2021 A true pleasure offered in life is a genuinely elegant sounding recording. Given over…
Politics & Prose: Witches & Witch-Hunting in the Modern World
Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four…
Music from the Heart— Ian Brennan in The Australian
By Jane Cornwell The Australian October 25th, 2020 Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other…