Do Make Say Think is a Canadian instrumental post-rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Their music combines jazz style drums and space style electronic effects, distorted guitars, and wind instruments as well as a prominent use of the bass guitar.
Biography
Do Make Say Think started in January 1996 when three Toronto roommates, Justin Small, James Payment (friends since childhood), and Charles Spearin began performing shows loosely based on their experimental 8-track home recordings. The performances, like the recordings, were instrumental, largely improvised, and steered away from traditional song structuring in favour of a more open-ended ambient style which drew from influences like Gastr del Sol, Flying Saucer Attack, Brise Glace, Muslimgauze, and Scorn.
Do Make Say Think during a live performance.
Do Make Say Think during a live performance.
For the first year the band included guitarist Robert Braz who left to be replaced by keyboardist/second drummer Jason MacKenzie. During the recording of their first full length album Ohad Benchetrit joined the band soon bringing with him drummer David Mitchell. (Spearin, Benchetrit and Mitchell had been friends for many years and played music together since high school).
In 1997 the band independently released their first full length CD, Do Make Say Think, which was quickly picked up by Montréal based label Constellation Records (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fly Pan Am, A Silver Mt. Zion…) and released worldwide. By mid-1999 the band had finished recording their second album Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead—a title taken from an anonymous art installation erected in the alleyway behind the home of the three roommates in Chinatown—and were preparing for their first European tour at the end of the year.
The recording approach to Goodbye Enemy Airship… became a kind of template for the records to follow: find a location, preferably rural (in this case Mackenzie’s grandparent’s barn near Port Hope, Ontario), free from distractions and complaining neighbours and move in for a few days to record lightly sketched out bed-tracks. After that, the songs are brought back to Toronto where overdubs are recorded and mixing is done over many months. The recording, mixing and mastering on all the albums so far have been done by Ohad Benchetrit and Charles Spearin with help from Justin Small.
After Do Make Say Think’s first European tour in 1999, Jason Mackenzie left the band, leaving the current five core members: Justin Small, Ohad Benchetrit, Charles Spearin, James Payment, and David Mitchell. Additional performers include Jason Baird, Brian Cram, and, most recently, Julie Penner.
In 2002, the band’s third LP & Yet & Yet was released; in 2004 Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn; and in February 2007, You, You're a History in Rust, which features guest vocals by Akron/Family, Alex Lukashevsky (Deep Dark United), and Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers), as well as Do Make Say Think themselves singing on the closing song “In Mind”.
The band’s music has been of interest to filmmakers, and has been used in films such as Mark Akbar’s The Corporation, Velcro Ripper’s Scared Sacred, and Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana.
Do Make Say Think performing live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2007.
Do Make Say Think performing live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2007.
Side projects
* Justin Small is also involved in a side project called Lullabye Arkestra as a drummer with his partner and bassist Katia Taylor. They have been produced by Benchetrit who, along with Spearin, records and tours with the Toronto super-group Broken Social Scene.
* Do Make Say Think are routinely joined on stage by trumpeter Brian Cram who, along with drummer James Payment, also perform in the metal band Gesundheit. They also provide horns and beats to local Toronto rock outfit Z'howndz.
* Spearin, Mitchell, and Benchetrit recorded an album together in 1997 under the moniker Microgroove, which put out a limited number of presses of their synthesizer and acoustic drum and bass beat working of jazz forms.
* Benchetrit was also involved in a side project called Sphyr, who released one album, A Poem for M, in 2003.
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Biography
Do Make Say Think started in January 1996 when three Toronto roommates, Justin Small, James Payment (friends since childhood), and Charles Spearin began performing shows loosely based on their experimental 8-track home recordings. The performances, like the recordings, were instrumental, largely improvised, and steered away from traditional song structuring in favour of a more open-ended ambient style which drew from influences like Gastr del Sol, Flying Saucer Attack, Brise Glace, Muslimgauze, and Scorn.
Do Make Say Think during a live performance.
Do Make Say Think during a live performance.
For the first year the band included guitarist Robert Braz who left to be replaced by keyboardist/second drummer Jason MacKenzie. During the recording of their first full length album Ohad Benchetrit joined the band soon bringing with him drummer David Mitchell. (Spearin, Benchetrit and Mitchell had been friends for many years and played music together since high school).
In 1997 the band independently released their first full length CD, Do Make Say Think, which was quickly picked up by Montréal based label Constellation Records (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fly Pan Am, A Silver Mt. Zion…) and released worldwide. By mid-1999 the band had finished recording their second album Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead—a title taken from an anonymous art installation erected in the alleyway behind the home of the three roommates in Chinatown—and were preparing for their first European tour at the end of the year.
The recording approach to Goodbye Enemy Airship… became a kind of template for the records to follow: find a location, preferably rural (in this case Mackenzie’s grandparent’s barn near Port Hope, Ontario), free from distractions and complaining neighbours and move in for a few days to record lightly sketched out bed-tracks. After that, the songs are brought back to Toronto where overdubs are recorded and mixing is done over many months. The recording, mixing and mastering on all the albums so far have been done by Ohad Benchetrit and Charles Spearin with help from Justin Small.
After Do Make Say Think’s first European tour in 1999, Jason Mackenzie left the band, leaving the current five core members: Justin Small, Ohad Benchetrit, Charles Spearin, James Payment, and David Mitchell. Additional performers include Jason Baird, Brian Cram, and, most recently, Julie Penner.
In 2002, the band’s third LP & Yet & Yet was released; in 2004 Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn; and in February 2007, You, You're a History in Rust, which features guest vocals by Akron/Family, Alex Lukashevsky (Deep Dark United), and Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers), as well as Do Make Say Think themselves singing on the closing song “In Mind”.
The band’s music has been of interest to filmmakers, and has been used in films such as Mark Akbar’s The Corporation, Velcro Ripper’s Scared Sacred, and Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana.
Do Make Say Think performing live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2007.
Do Make Say Think performing live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2007.
Side projects
* Justin Small is also involved in a side project called Lullabye Arkestra as a drummer with his partner and bassist Katia Taylor. They have been produced by Benchetrit who, along with Spearin, records and tours with the Toronto super-group Broken Social Scene.
* Do Make Say Think are routinely joined on stage by trumpeter Brian Cram who, along with drummer James Payment, also perform in the metal band Gesundheit. They also provide horns and beats to local Toronto rock outfit Z'howndz.
* Spearin, Mitchell, and Benchetrit recorded an album together in 1997 under the moniker Microgroove, which put out a limited number of presses of their synthesizer and acoustic drum and bass beat working of jazz forms.
* Benchetrit was also involved in a side project called Sphyr, who released one album, A Poem for M, in 2003.
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