Production · Engineering
Ian Brennan
Ian Brennan is credited on 33 releases across 25 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1997–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
33
Pressings credited
25
Albums
4
Decades active
44
In collections
Biography
Ian Brennan (; born June 15, 1966) is an American music producer. Of the albums he has produced, Tinariwen's Tassili (2011) won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album and Zomba Prison Project (2015) was nominated; and Ramblin' Jack Elliott's I Stand Alone (2006) and Peter Case's Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (2007) were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Brennan has authored eight books, three on anger, Anger Antidotes (2011), Hate-less (2014), and Peace by Peace: 99 Steps Toward Violence Prevention and De-escalation (2025); a novella, Sister Maple Syrup Eyes (2015); and four on music, How Music Dies [or Lives] (2016), Silenced by Sound (2019), Muse-Sick (2021), and Missing Music: voices from where the dirt roads end (2024). Brennan travels in search of countries and languages whose music is under-represented internationally, making field recordings of musicians and producing albums of their work. He started out making nine albums of his own music, and hosting benefits, producing live recordings and releasing compilation albums of local bands in San Francisco.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
33 releases · 25 albums · active 1997–2025
- Production · 33
- Engineering · 9
- Other credits · 7
Studios: Red Barn Studios · Private Island Trax · Studio Soyuz · The Loft
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- John Waters
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Tinariwen
- The Good Ones
- Bob Forrest
- Malawi Mouse Boys
- Abatwa (The Pygmy)
- Ustad Saami
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