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JUNO x 2

JUNO x 2!!!

Stubborn Persistent Illusions was recognized by the Canadian music industry through the JUNOS and CARAS organizations for both its artistic interior and exterior, inside and out!

Do Make Say Think was awarded Instrumental Album of the Year and Album Artwork of the Year (Marianne Collins, Ian Ilavsky, Steve Farmer)

HUGE thank you’s go out to…

All independant musicians and artists in Canada and worldwide, to our families and loved ones, our record label Constellation, and of course our listeners, all of whom are essential to the equation that allows our independent sprit to continue on its path.

Without all of your hearts and ears Do Make Say Think would not be possible.

XO,

Do Make Say Think

2017 Winter Tour

L I V E !

Friday, November 10
@ Bronson Centre in Ottawa

tickets here

Saturday, November 11
@ Le National in Montreal

tickets here

Friday, December 1
@ Rock & Roll Hotel in Washington, DC

tickets here

Saturday, December 2
@ Murmrr Ballroom in Brooklyn

tickets here

Sunday, December 3
@ The Sinclair in Cambridge, MA

tickets here

Friday, December 8
@ Metro in Chicago

tickets here

Saturday, December 9
@ Agora Ballroom in Cleveland

tickets here

Sunday, December 10
@ El Club in Detroit

tickets here

2015 – Camp Wavelength

DMST continues 20th anniversary celebrations with long-time friends at Wavelength

Camp Wavelength an intimate, open-air festival right next to Gibraltar Point beach.

August 28-30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island)

More info: CampWavelength.com

Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Do Make Say Think fashioned a fourth full-length album of tremendous beauty and depth, more loosely woven than previous records and played with a dark, wistful restraint throughout. These songs are eerie and iridescent, composed and captured with mesmerising attention to detail, guided by the band’s most intricate and intimate guitar passages to date, full of delicate transitions and soulful punctuations. Many of the songs feature a newfound non-linearity in compositional structure that once again raised the DMST bar, imbuing instrumental rock with heartrending — yes, even hymnal — narrative ideas.

More than any previous effort by the band, this is an album that demands to be listened to as a whole, or at least in the triptychs defined by the three-sided vinyl edition. Recorded in three sessions over the winter and spring of 2003, most of the tracks went to tape at two rural locations. The resulting campfire vibe on much of this material is reminiscent of the band’s second record, Goodbye Enemy Airship…, but with more density and complexity throughout. Mixed by the group at th’Schvitz, their Toronto home studio, the album highlights DMST’s inventive production touches, always at the service of the musical ideas.

Release date: 6 October 2003
Running time: 52:02

 

Credits

PERSONNEL
Ohad Benchetrit: guitar, horns, keys
Dave Mitchell: drums
James Payment: drums
Justin Small: guitar, keys
Charles Spearin: guitar, bass, horns, keys

GUESTS
Brian Cram: horns
Mr. Jay Baird: horns

Recorded by Do Make Say Think. TRACKS 1, 4, 6, 7 recorded at the Rockwood 2 Farmhouse, Rockwood ON, January 2003. TRACKS 2, 5, 8, 9 recorded at th’ Schvitz, Toronto, spring 2003. TRACK 3 recorded at The Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield QC, March 2003. Mixed and mastered at th’ Schvitz by Do Make Say Think.

WinterHymnCountryHymnSecretHymn

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Tracklist

1. Frederica
2. War On Want
3. Auberge Le Mouton Noir
4. Outer Inner Secret
5. 107 Reasons Why
6. Ontario Plates
7. Horns Of A Rabbit
8. It’s Gonna Rain
9. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

 

& Yet & Yet

The third full-length by Do Make Say Think marked another quantum leap by this Toronto-based instrumental rock band. Their space- and drone-rock foundations continued to serve as the launching pad for experimentation with jazz-inflected motifs, but with this album, the group’s pop sensibility was also on fine display. Melodic themes laid out by guitars and horns wind along a burbling brook of fat analog synths and phased percussion, tiny subtle details are worked into the mix on every track, and the whole record just pulses with warmth and soul.

Once again recorded by band members and mixing wizards Charles and Ohad, the stacks of tube gear combined with digital editing yielded a thick, intricate sound overall — highly detailed yet still somehow wrapped in a translucent gauze. Most of the tracking was done at guitarist Justin’s apartment, then brought to the studio. Unlike the band’s previous effort, Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead, which resonated with the rural atmosphere of its barnyard recording location, the new album is much more up-front-sounding. The arrangements pump with bottom-end and the interweaving melodic elements are beautifully shaped and placed. While the album conjures diverse emotions, there is something consistently ebullient and effervescent about each of the songs. Aesthetically and technically, & Yet & Yet was DMST’s strongest and most evocative work to that point.

Release date: 18 March 2002 (Europe), 25 March 2002 (rest of world)
Running time: 58:51

Credits

PERSONNEL
Ohad Benchetrit: guitar, horns, keys
Dave Mitchell: drums
James Payment: drums
Justin Small: guitar, keys
Charles Spearin: guitar, bass, horns, keys

GUESTS
Brian Cram: horns
Tamara Williamson: voice

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Justin’s place on Queen Street and at Manta DSP in Toronto by Ohad and Charles.

&Yet&Yet

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Tracklist

1. Classic Noodlanding
2. End Of Music
3. White Light Of
4. Chinatown
5. Reitschule Soul And Onward
6. Anything For Now

 

You, You’re A History In Rust

Since their debut record in 1998, Do Make Say Think have made one critically-acclaimed album after another. They are one of the most consistently inventive instrumental rock bands of the past decade, and one of the most self-realised: DMST members themselves have recorded, mixed and mastered all the band’s work, developing a highly original and finely detailed approach to audio production. You, You’re A History In Rust is the fifth record by Do Make Say Think and a brilliant extension of the band’s unique sonic narrative.

In many ways the new album picks up where Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn left off – acoustic fingerpicked guitars are the recurring compositional anchor, with drums and percussion fluttering around these campfire themes while horns and electric guitars gather in swarms. The songs on You, You’re A History In Rust develop like moths drawn to a flame, instruments tracing erratic circles around a flickering, elusive centre. This organic non-linearity will be familiar to fans of the band, as DMST honed this kind of overlapping, multi-thematic ebb and flow over the last couple of records. And as these fans know, DMST’s approach to musical deconstruction is never academic, forced, or played merely for effect; it is always a matter of weaving the captured elements together with the mixing desk played like a master instrument. As with previous releases, DMST set up in remote locations for the main recording sessions, tracking these new songs at a cottage and barn in rural Ontario, Canada and returning to their Toronto homebase at th’Schvitz studio for overdubs and mixing by production wizards Charles, Ohad and Justin.

Album opener “Bound To Be That Way” puts all these elements on fine display: recorded rhythmic and melodic figures fade in and out along with found and recovered sounds, lead instruments slide and shift in the mix, and the band’s dual drummers deploy separate channels of syncopated stutter. “A With Living” will surprise hardcore DMST followers, as it features full-on verse-chorus-verse singing that builds towards lovely massed vocals before breaking down again into a beautiful modal horn denouement. “The Universe!” and “Herstory Of Glory” serve as tight, snappy firecrackers set off within the rest of the album’s pensive, dusky atmosphere.

Release date: 12 February 2007 (Europe), 26 February 2007 (rest of world)
Running time: 48:25

Credits

PERSONNEL
Ohad Benchetrit: guitar, horns, keys
Dave Mitchell: drums
James Payment: drums
Justin Small: guitar, keys
Charles Spearin: guitar, bass, horns, keys

GUESTS
Brian Cram: horns
Mr. Jay Baird: horns
Julie Penner: violin
Jason Tait: vibes
Deekus: marimba
Alex Lukashevsky: voice
Tony Dekker: voice
Jimmy Anderson: singin’ saw
Liyat Benchetrit: piano
Akron/Family (Seth, Ryan, Dana, Miles): voice + the abstract truth

Recorded by Do Make Say Think. TRACKS 2, 3, 4 recorded at the Mitchell family cottage in Parry Sound ON, April 2005. TRACKS 1, 5, 7 recorded at the Howard family barn in Delta ON, September 2005. TRACK 6 recorded at th’ Schvitz in Toronto ON, May 2006. TRACK 8 recorded to minidisk at Room 8 (rehearsal space), March 2006. Mixed and mastered at th’ Schvitz by Ohad, Justin and Charles.

You,YoureHistory

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Tracklist

1. Bound To Be That Way
2. A With Living
3. The Universe!
4. A Tender History In Rust
5. Herstory Of Glory
6. You, You’re Awesome
7. Executioner Blues
8. In Mind