Daniel Lanois
| Daniel Lanois | |
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Lanois playing steel guitar | |
| Background information | |
| Born |
September 19, 1951 Hull, Quebec, Canada |
| Origin | Ancaster, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Rock, alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, pedal steel, drums |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Labels | Opal, Warner Bros., ANTI-, Red Floor, MapleMusic Recordings (Canada) |
| Associated acts | Bob Dylan, U2, Raffi, Malcolm Burn, Brian Eno, Aaron Neville, Daryl Johnson, Black Dub, Trixie Whitley |
| Website |
daniellanois |
Daniel Lanois (/lænˈwɑː/ lan-WAH;[1] born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.
Lanois has released several albums of his own work. However, he is best known for producing albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Brandon Flowers. Lanois also collaborated with Brian Eno: most famously on producing several albums for U2, including the multi-platinum The Joshua Tree. Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Four other albums received Grammy nominations.
Career
Early career
Lanois started his production career when he was 17,[2] working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois in the basement of their mother's Ancaster, Ontario home, recording local artists including Simply Saucer. Later, Daniel started Grant Avenue Studios in an old house he purchased in the east-end of Hamilton, Ontario.[3] He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins (for whom his sister Jocelyne played bass), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.
Producer
Lanois worked collaboratively with Brian Eno on some of Eno's own projects, one of which was the theme song for David Lynch's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. Eno invited him to co-produce U2's album The Unforgettable Fire. Along with Eno, he went on to produce U2's The Joshua Tree, the 1987 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and some of the band's other works including Achtung Baby and All That You Can't Leave Behind, both of which were nominated for the same award but did not win. Lanois once again collaborated with U2 and Brian Eno on the band's 2009 album, No Line on the Horizon. He was involved in the songwriting process as well as mixing and production.[4]
Lanois' early work with U2 led to him being hired to produce albums for other top-selling artists. Bono recommended Lanois to Bob Dylan in the late 1980s; in 1989 Lanois produced Dylan's Oh Mercy. Eight years later Dylan and Lanois worked together on Time Out of Mind which won another Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997. In his autobiographical Chronicles, Vol. 1, Dylan describes in depth the contentious but rewarding working relationship he developed with Lanois.[5]
Lanois spent most of 1985 producing So, Peter Gabriel's Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling album, released in 1986. Lanois also co-produced Gabriel's platinum selling follow-up, Us.
Wrecking Ball, his 1995 collaboration with Emmylou Harris, won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 1998, he produced and appeared on Willie Nelson's album Teatro.
Lanois was working on Neil Young's record Le Noise in June 2010 when he was hospitalized after suffering multiple injuries in a motorcycle crash in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles.[6] He has since recovered.
Lanois' production is recognizable and notable for its 'big' and 'live' drum sound, atmospheric guitars and ambient reverb.[7] Rolling Stone called Lanois the "most important record producer to emerge in the Eighties."[8]
Recording artist
As well as being a producer, Lanois is also a songwriter, musician and recording artist. He has released several solo albums and film scores. A number of Lanois' songs have been covered by other artists, including Dave Matthews, Jerry Garcia Band, Willie Nelson, Tea Party, Anna Beljin, Isabelle Boulay and Emmylou Harris, and his albums have had some success, particularly in Canada. Lanois plays the guitar, pedal steel, and drums. "Belladonna", an instrumental album released in 2005, was nominated for a Grammy.[9] Lanois also provided an instrumental score for LOUDquietLOUD, a documentary about the Pixies.[10]
Lanois premiered a documentary entitled Here Is What Is at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007. The film chronicles the recording of his album of the same name, and includes footage of the actual recording. The album Here Is What Is was released, first by download, then in compact disc, in late 2007 and early 2008. Soon after, Lanois released a three-disc recording called Omni.
In October 2009, Lanois started a project called Black Dub which features Lanois on guitar, Brian Blade on drums, and Daryl Johnson on bass, along with multi-instrumentalist/singer Trixie Whitley. They released a self-titled album in 2010.[11]
In 2014, Lanois played with Emmylou Harris as a sideman and opening act on a tour focused on the Wrecking Ball material he produced.[12]
Solo career
Flesh and Machine
On October 28, 2014 Lanois released an album, entitled Flesh and Machine, with ANTI- Records. The fully instrumental album consists primarily of original atmospheric and process-based sounds, though also reminiscent of his work his 1980's collaborations with Brian Eno, On Land and Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks.[13] Throughout the album Lanois blends together the distinct sounds of his pedal steel guitar and a variety of digital and analog sound processing devices, along with the accompaniment of drummer Brian Blade, noted most prominently on the second track "The End" with a loose style of arrhythmic, free improvisation.[14]
Awards
In 2005, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.[15] In June 2013, he received a lifetime achievement award at the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.[16]
Current work
After his October 2014 release of Flesh and the Machine with ANTI- Records, Lanois has been touring extensively.
Discography
| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 1989 | Acadie |
| 1993 | For the Beauty of Wynona |
| 1993 | Trip: Soundtrack Collection |
| 1993 | Waves of Air |
| 1994 | Cool Water |
| 1996 | Sweet Angel Mine |
| Lost in Mississippi (soundtrack) | |
| Sling Blade (soundtrack) | |
| 2003 | Shine |
| 2004 | Rockets |
| 2005 | Belladonna |
| 2007 | Here Is What Is |
| 2008 | The Omni Series (Box Set) |
| 2010 | Black Dub |
| 2011 | Harvest Festival 2011 |
| 2014 | My Music For Billy Bob |
| 2014 | Flesh and Machine |
Videography
| Year | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Rocky World | Documentary about Lanois' music and travels in the early 1990s, available through his website[17] |
| 2007 | Here Is What Is | Documentary about the creation of the album Here Is What Is |
Production credits
- Demo – Simply Saucer, 1974 (not released commercially until 1989, on the album Cyborgs Revisited)
- Blues and Sentimental – Jackie Washington, 1976 (As "Dan Lanois")
- Hobo's Taunt- Willie P. Bennett, 1977 (Engineered, as "Dan Lanois", with Bob Lanois)
- More Singable Songs – Raffi, 1977 (Recording credit as "Dan Lanois")
- Can't Wait For Summer – Ron Neilson, 1978
- Choice Cuts – Crackers, 1978 (As "Dan Lanois")
- Desperate Cosmetics – Scott Merritt, 1979
- Millionaires, 1980 EP (As "Danny Lanois") (included two members of Teenage Head)
- This is the Ice Age – Martha and the Muffins, 1981
- Dream Away – Bernie LaBarge, 1981
- Mama Quilla, KKK, Angry Young Woman – 3-song 12" Album- 1982, Mama Quilla II
- Dance After Curfew – Nash the Slash, 1982
- Danseparc – Martha and the Muffins, 1982
- Ambient 4/On Land – Brian Eno, 1982
- Parachute Club – Parachute Club, 1983
- Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks – Brian Eno, 1983
- The Pearl – Harold Budd and Brian Eno, 1984
- Mystery Walk – M + M, 1984
- The Unforgettable Fire – U2, 1984
- Secrets and Sins – Luba, 1984
- Thursday Afternoon – Brian Eno, 1985
- Hybrid – Michael Brook, 1985
- Birdy – Peter Gabriel, 1985
- Voices – Roger Eno, 1985
- Power Spot – Jon Hassell, 1986
- So – Peter Gabriel, 1986
- The Joshua Tree – U2, 1987
- Robbie Robertson – Robbie Robertson, 1987
- Acadie – Daniel Lanois, 1989
- Oh Mercy – Bob Dylan, 1989
- Yellow Moon – Neville Brothers, 1989
- Home – Hothouse Flowers, 1990
- Achtung Baby – U2, 1991
- Flash of the Spirit – Jon Hassell and Farafina, 1992
- Us – Peter Gabriel, 1992
- The Last of the Mohicans – movie soundtrack, 1992
- For the Beauty of Wynona – Daniel Lanois, 1993
- Ron Sexsmith – Ron Sexsmith, 1994
- Wrecking Ball – Emmylou Harris, 1995
- Night to Night – Geoffrey Oryema, 1996
- Fever In Fever Out – Luscious Jackson, 1996
- Time Out of Mind – Bob Dylan, 1997
- Brian Blade Fellowship – Brian Blade, 1998
- 12 Bar Blues – Scott Weiland, 1998
- Teatro – Willie Nelson, 1998
- The Million Dollar Hotel – movie soundtrack, 2000
- All That You Can't Leave Behind – U2, 2000
- La Belle Vista - Harold Budd, 2003 (secretly recorded in Lanois Los Angeles living room)
- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2, 2004 (track "Love and Peace or Else")
- Dusk & Summer – Dashboard Confessional, 2006 (also produced by Don Gilmore)
- loudQUIETloud, A film about the pixies – movie soundtrack, 2006
- Back Where You Belong – Sinéad O'Connor, 2007.
- Let It Go - Mother Superior, 2007.
- Snake Road – Bob Lanois, 2006.
- No Line on the Horizon – U2, 2009 (plus songwriting credits).
- "Mind Games" & "Night Nurse" – Sinéad O'Connor, 2009.
- Mercy – Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, 2009.
- Flamingo – Brandon Flowers, 2010.
- Le Noise – Neil Young, 2010.
- Honest Mistake - Jim Wilson, 2012.
- Battle Born – The Killers, 2012 (co-writer on tracks "The Way It Was", "Heart of a Girl", and "Be Still").
- Rocco Deluca - Rocco Deluca, 2014.
See also
Citations
- ↑ "NLS Other Writings: Say How? A Pronunciation Guide to Names of Public Figures". Library of Congress. December 17, 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ↑ "Lanois, Daniel". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2011-29-06.
- ↑ "Grant Avenue Studios/ Daniel Lanois". Retrieved 2007-01-24.
- ↑ "No Line on the Horizon". U2.com. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ↑ Dylan, Bob (2004). Chronicles, Vol. 1. Simon & Schuster. pp. 176ff.
- ↑ Daniel Lanois injured in motorcycle crash
- ↑ "Electronic Musician Feature". Emusician.com. October 13, 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ↑ "Candadaswalkoffame.com". Canadaswalkoffame.com. September 19, 1951. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ↑ "NYtimes.com". NYtimes.com. December 8, 2005. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ↑ Lee, Nathan (September 29, 2006). "New York Times". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ↑ Regina Leader-Post
- ↑ Doole, Kerry (April 15, 2014). "Emmylou Harris/Daniel Lanois – Concert Review". Exclaim Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
- ↑ "First Listen: Daniel Lanois, Flesh and Machine". NPR. 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
- ↑ "Albums from Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois". New York Times. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
- ↑ "Canadaswalkoffame.com". Canadaswalkoffame.com. September 19, 1951. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ↑ "NFB shorts: Stories Sarah Tells, Canadian Famous and Daniel Lanois". Toronto Star. June 10, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Daniellanois.com". Daniellanois.com. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
References
- Entry from the Canadian Encyclopedia
- Daniel Lanois interview on Freethescene.com
- Jam.canoe.ca
- Flesh and Machine, online
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