Do Make Say Think

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Do Make Say Think
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Do Make Say Think in concert at Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany in 2007. From left to right: Ohad Benchetrit, Justin Small, Julie Penner, and Charles Spearin.
Background information
Origin Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres Post-rock
Years active1995present
Labels Constellation
Members Ohad Benchetrit
David Mitchell
James Payment
Justin Small
Charles Spearin
Julie Penner
Jay Baird
Past membersJason Mackenzie
Brian Cram
Website www.domakesaythink.com

Do Make Say Think is a Canadian instrumental band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1995. Their music combines jazz-style drumming, distorted guitars and wind instruments, and prominent bass guitar.

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Biography

The band formed in 1995 as a recording project for a Canadian youth dramatic production. They rehearsed for the production in an empty elementary school room. The four simple verbs 'Do', 'Make', 'Say' and 'Think' were painted on walls of the room, and the band adopted them as their name. In 1996, the band progressed as they practiced in the rehearsal room in the basement of the University of Toronto radio station CIUT.

The song "Chinatown" from 2002's & Yet & Yet is featured in the films Syriana , The Corporation, and A Simple Curve .

The band's fifth full-length album, entitled You, You're a History in Rust , was released on Constellation Records in February 2007. The band toured North America and Europe to promote the release of the album, and released a tour EP, The Whole Story of Glory, to promote the Japanese leg of their tour.

In June 2009 at Luminato, Toronto's annual festival of arts and creativity, the band provided part of the live soundtrack for the outdoor screening (at Yonge-Dundas Square (now Sankofa Square) of the 1919 silent German horror film Tales Of The Uncanny ( Unheimliche Geschichten ), alongside Canadian violinist Owen Pallett and electronica music artist Robert Lippok from Berlin, Germany.

Constellation Records released Do Make Say Think's sixth album, titled Other Truths , in October 2009. Their seventh album, titled Stubborn Persistent Illusions , was released on May 19, 2017. The album won the 2018 Juno Awards for Best Instrumental Album, and Best Artwork. [1]

Members

Do Make Say Think performing live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2007. Do Make Say Think Phoenix 2007.jpg
Do Make Say Think performing live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2007.

Current members

Previous members

Side projects

Discography

LPs

EPs

See also

References

  1. "Junos 2018: the complete list of winners". CBC News, · March 25, 2018
  2. Braven at IMDb   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg