Welcome to Breakdown, an unofficial resource and discussion list about the innovative guitarist/producer Michael Brook. This site is infrequently updated, but contains a great deal of background info which will remain online. For up-to-date news and information, visit Michael Brook's official site and MySpace page.

Slipstream | rare out of print and unreleased material

Slipstream features rare or out-of-print tracks in streaming audio & video. The rationale is: these tracks are otherwise unavailable, and Real Media is (typically) not "save-able".


Brightness Falls Watch Brightness Falls in RealVideo
(from the Sylvian|Fripp Live in Japan laserdisc)
Duration: 6 min. 22 sec.
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Every Colour You Are Watch Every Colour You Are in RealVideo
(from the Sylvian|Fripp Live in Japan laserdisc)
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Music for Films III Listen to Err in RealAudio
(from Music for Films III)
Duration: 4 min. 4 sec.
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All Virgos Are Mad Listen to Diffusing in RealAudio
(from All Virgos Are Mad)
Duration: 4 min. 50 sec.
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Shona Listen to Shona Bridge / After Image in RealAudio
(from Shona)
Duration: 11 min. 28 sec.
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Road to Graceland Listen to Lakbossa in RealAudio
(from Road to Graceland)
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God's Monkey
Also from the Live in Japan laserdisc: eight stills from the performance of God's Monkey.


May the Road Rise to Meet You Download Watching the Breath in MP3 format from Paul Tingen's site, arranged and electronically treated by Michael Brook. From Paul Tingen's album May the Road Rise to Meet You. Also available is a bonus track not on the album, White Horses, also with treatments by Brook.

Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook
A living room concert recorded for the Echoes radio program. 9 November 1999.

Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook
An in-studio performance from the Los Angeles radio program "Morning Becomes Eclectic" on Los Angeles' KCRW. 7 October 1998.

Kevin Spacey and Michael Brook
A 40-minute RealAudio interview with Michael Brook and Kevin Spacey. 15 January 1997. Be warned, Kevin likes the sound of his own voice, so the comparatively shy & retiring Michael doesn't get too many words in.

The Making of Star Rise
A video documentary on the making of the Star Rise album, from Real World US, 1998. Includes "Sweet Pain," "Taa Deem," and "Shadow" in RealAudio, interviews with Peter Gabriel, Asian Dub Foundation, Nitin Sawhey, and Michael Brook, and clips from the music videos "Sweet Pain," "Taa Deem," and "Shadow."

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
A Retrospective, from Virgin Records' The Raft, 1998. Includes "Mustt Mustt," "Lament," "Dhyahar-eh-ishq-meh," and "Shamas-ud-doha, badar-ud-doja" in Real Audio.

Star Rise
Virgin Records' Star Rise page, on The Raft, 1998. Includes artists' comments and "My Heart, My Life," "Shadow," "Tracery," and "Lament" in RealAudio.