6/2/2023 0 Comments Phil cook brothers![]() ![]() He’s appeared on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and his work has been profiled in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. ![]() According to former CNN journalist Paula Zahn, Phil is rare – a working producer in Hollywood with a Ph.D. Phil produced and directed the television specials on the “Nativity Cribs of Malta” for Museum of the Bible, and “Inexplicable: The Rise of Christianity in Asia,” and Produced of “ The Insanity of God” a feature documentary that premiered nationally as a Fathom Event. And during that time – through his company Cooke Media Group in Los Angeles, California – he’s helped some of the largest Christian and nonprofit organizations in the world use the media to tell their story in a changing, disrupted culture. He’s produced TV and film programming in more than 60 countries around the world, and in the process, been shot at, survived two military coups, fallen out of a helicopter, and in Africa, been threatened with prison. His client list has included studios and networks like Walt Disney, Dreamworks, and USA Network, as well as major Christian organizations from Voice of the Martyrs, The Museum of the Bible, The Salvation Army, The YouVersion Bible app, to many of the most respected churches in the country. Phil Cooke works at the intersection of faith, media, and culture, and he’s pretty rare – a working producer in Hollywood with a Ph.D. ![]() Helping creative leaders and organizations share their message in today’s distracted, media driven culture. Media Producer / Writer / Speaker / Coach It’s not so much looking backwards as it is just looking around, reflections on all that is human and divine and present, and the roads we’ve taken to get us there.“Ideas on a Deadline: How to Be Creative When the Clock is Ticking” available here. He distills decades of friendship, brotherhood, family, love, learning, and loss into flickering piano portraits - impressionistic and fluid and reverent. Through composing the music, he began to reflect on specific and important presences in his life, and ends up capturing their essence via keys here. When Cook began these songs, he was in the headspace of meditating on the people in his support network, and those closest to him. The resulting All These Years record is near hymn-like, a collection of prayers or meditations, improvisations threaded together by feeling, by the things that matter most. It’s also where Cook’s wife, Heather, worked for years for his family, it’s like a second home. The church’s cavernous space has long been integral to Cook’s day-to-day life as an artist - a venue that suggests music as a higher power, and art-making as a form of worship - a place that elevates the act of writing a song to something beyond sacred. All These Years feels like starting over, or like a return, trimming everything back to its original starting place. Piano is where Cook is the most expressive, an easy, free flow of emotional output. These ten pieces came to life on a long-cared-for and much-loved one-hundred year-old Steinway over a week in the spring of 2021. Cook and Joseph have been close their entire lives, with Joseph being one of the people who knows the full depth of Cook’s relationship to the instrument. In that way, All These Years is sort of the first proper introduction to Cook, to the way he can express himself with the most ease and reveal the deepest compartments of his heart.Īll These Years is Cook’s first solo instrumental album on his primary instrument, recorded at NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, NC by his cousin and collaborator Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Indigo Girls). But even across all the work he’s done in his decades as a musician, he’s yet to release a proper piano album. A sweet and affable presence whose musical dexterity elevates every project he touches, Cook’s musical output and true sound has been hard to pin down. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - Cook has always been a musician’s musician. For Phil Cook, it all started with piano.
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