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,[1] Kevin Hearn, The Constantines, Gentleman Reg, Great Lake Swimmers[2] The Hidden Cameras.[3][4] and Zoon.
He is also well known as a producer and has worked with Ohbijou,[5] and Spiral Beach.[6][7] Olsen was a founder and operator of the Toronto recording studio Uncomfortable Silence.[4]
Olsen currently fronts the Toronto band Our Founders, whose members include Spencer Cole of Weaves.[8] Their album The Nines was released in October 2013.[9]
He was a Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab Resident from 2014 to 2015 in Toronto.[10]
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 [11]