About The Thoughts
The Thoughts came about in 2007. Ian Williams and Jon Horwath, who have played together for a long, long time, joined with Seattle violinist Katie Mosehauer (The Monday Mornings, Lucy Bland, Carrie Biell).
Comprised of drums, violin/harp, and guitar/vocals, The Thoughts tell their stories with a mix of savagery and sweetness, at times whispering honeyed words in the ear and at others wailing in reckless abandon. Undertows of graceful string harmonies are pitted against complex, impressionistic percussion in arrangements that are pretty, violent, intimate, and unexpected.
Drawing from influences like Elliot Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel and King Crimson, The Thoughts amble nimbly between traditional songs and departures from expected form.
A shared desire to create nuanced, dynamic music is what brought this band together and the meticulous achievement of this vision is what makes their resulting sound one to be remembered.
Ian Williams (vocals, guitar)
Ian Williams is a mostly harmless animal who wanders the cities of the Pacific Northwest, though some sightings happen as far east as NYC. He went to school, studied music and theatre, and writes songs. He loves crows, but crows don't love him. He would like to meet a polar bear, but it suspects that the polar bear might be indifferent, or possibly hostile. He likes that whales sing songs.
Katie Mosehauer (violin, harp)
Katie Mosehauer likes books and sad songs and tends to touch the plants she walks by. She thinks the latter might end badly at some point, but she's willing to take her chances. She studied music and anthropology and linguistics and after many years, has decided that the first was the wisest choice--with a violin as her voice she can say things she's never had the words for.
Jon Horwath (drums)
Jon Horwath has played drums pretty since he can remember. At a younger age he participated in youth orchestras and such. During college he spent the majority of his time in the music building and so ended up with a minor in music and a teaching certification for instrumental music. Widely influenced, his great love is anything experimental or improvised and specifically, John Coltrane. Other drumming influences include Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Jon Fishman, Greg Saunier, and Ringo Starr (yep Ringo).
