Think of One

Perhaps a little bit of initial confusion concerning this group may be permitted, although from the mid-2000s the ensemble’s raison d’être were coming into better focus: Think about One isn’t a band focused on the music of “Think about One” composer Thelonious Monk, but instead want you to think about one world with almost all its musical threads coming collectively inside a multicultural celebration of rhythm and song. Created by Flemish guitarist/vocalist David Bovée, Think about One present the query “Why can’t most of us just go along?” in musical conditions, and they’re ready to travel the world to show that, actually, we are able to. On Juggernaut, the band’s 1st Compact disc released jointly from the N.Con.C.-centered Knitting Factory and Belgium-based De Beek labels in 1997, practically every single musical style on the planet was crammed in to the disc’s grooves, which was just the beginning for Think about One. A occasionally thrilling and certainly diverting record, Juggernaut was accompanied by many discs released following the band’s initial “rhythm research trip” to Marrakech in July of 1998: Marrakech Emballages Outfit (1999), Marrakech Emballages Outfit 2 (2000), and Marrakech Emballages Outfit 3 (2002), which discovered the primary music group joining makes with Moroccan vocalist/percussionists, including a gnawa get better at. Exuberant call-and-response vocals and different North African instrumentation — including bender, nakkous, sentir, karkabo, oud, and derboukha — got listeners on polystylistic however even more unified journeys than Juggernaut, as Think about One had apparently dumped their preliminary status being a Belgian avant-prog music group with tenuous links to a fresh York Town downtown record label and only a global music persona and investigations from the sonic areas and areas where Euro-funk and Moroccan gnawa polyrhythms could intersect. This participating cross-cultural experience garnered Think about One a BBC Radio 3 Globe Music Prize in the Boundary Crossing category for the Marrakech Emballages Outfit 3 CD. In the meantime, perhaps believing it had been time for Think about One to tightly set up a singular identification of its, the music group released two albums, Naft (2000) and Naft 2 (2002), that highlighted frontman Bovée on electric guitar and business lead vocals (occasionally shouting and occasionally dipping right into a baritone croon while keeping a streetwise tough edge) supported from the group’s primary Belgian lineup of Tomas DeSmet on dual bass, Tobe Wouters on tuba, Eric Morel on saxophones, Bart Maris (ex-XLS) on trumpet, and Roel Poriau on drums, along with numerous Belgian music artists on extra brass, reeds, and vocals. Naft and Naft 2 confusing Think about One’s musical stew to provide more unified claims educated by brass music group, rock and roll, funk, calypso, ska, and Middle Eastern/North African rhythms — nearly the postmodern stylistic jumpcutting of Juggernaut but nonetheless not exactly thinking about one design either. The music group toured Europe inside a van that may be changed into a cellular stage, carrying out before fun-seeking viewers in such places as Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and Marseilles. Fast-forward to January 2004 as well as the launch of Think about One’s seventh disk, Cuva Em Po, and listeners found that the intrepid Belgians (minus Maris) have been occupied making music within an completely unexpected area: Brazil. And unlike fellow Belgians Finnegans Wake, who also journeyed to Brazil to collaborate with likeminded local people, Bovée and organization completely submerged themselves in the wonderful world of Brazilian rhythms and vocals, very much as they experienced finished with Moroccan percussionists and performers many years before. Finnegans Wake, on the other hand, collaborated with Brazilians who distributed their affinity for Belgian instrumental chamber intensifying rock comparable to Univers No. Think about One had journeyed to Brazil searching for that country’s groove also to participate a livelier musical special event. In 2006 the music group released its second Brazilian cooperation, Tráfico, this time around with wider worldwide distribution (like the U.S.) because of the Crammed label. From Belgium to Morocco to Brazil — probably a design was rising: that of rhythm-seeking Belgians searching for collaborators in warmer southern locales. Nevertheless, the Think about One tale was still unfolding, as the music group toured Greenland, holland, and Belgium in just one more collaboration, this time around with three Inuit neck performers — Sarah Surusila, Sylvia Cloutier, and Akinisie Sivuarapik — from Quebec’s far-northern area of Nunavik. And in-may 2006, Think about One’s “Nunavik Task” was performed at among North America’s leading avant-garde music celebrations, the Event de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (for the reason that part of Quebec well south of Nunavik). But it was back again to North Africa for the peripatetic ensemble, which documented its eighth recording (and second for Crammed), 2008’s Camping Shaâbi, in the right now familiar physical and musical landscape of Morocco. Obviously, Think of You can arrive anywhere, anytime, from your Equator nearly towards the Arctic Group (one miracles if their warm music may be partially in charge of the melting from the Arctic icecap, never to trivialize a global crisis). So evidently that’s the actual music group is focused on: thinking about one globe whose inhabitants will get commonality in the playing and pleasure from the music that unites them. Wherever your home is, in the event that you hear some infectious rhythms and riffs emanating from a vehicle parked nearby using a portable stage, there’s an acceptable chance it’s likely you have discovered a concert by Think about One. Allow fun begin.