Director (Yonatan Gat album)
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Released | 2015 | |||
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Label | Joyful Noise Recordings | |||
Producer | Chris Woodhouse | |||
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Director is Yonatan Gat's debut full-length studio-album released in 2015 on Joyful Noise Recordings.[1][2][3][4] Gal Lazer plays drums, and Sergio Sayeg is on bass. The album was recorded live by Chris Woodhouse (Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees) in less than 3 days during a US tour. According to Gat, the band went into the studio with just a few songs and ideas. Though effectively composed of "hours upon hours" of mixed-down, in-studio improvisations spliced together with field recordings that Gat had taken during his travels, the album's sound takes its inspiration from soundtrack virtuosos like Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota.[1]
Stylistically the album samples a wide-variety of global traditions "touch[ing] on everything from bossa nova to soukous, Tortoise-style jazz-rock to the head-swimming spazz-outs of Ponytail,"[2] and fuses, "the psych-jazz improv fusion of late-period Miles Davis, weirdo Middle Eastern surf-rawk and Western African complexities with raging punk rock intensity."[4]
Track listing
[edit]- East to West - 5:06
- Casino Café - 2:09
- Canal - 1:28
- Gold Rush - 3:15
- Theme from a Dark Party - 1:50
- North to South - 5:48
- Boxwood - 1:19
- Gibraltar - 3:23
- Underwater Prelude - 0:58
- L'Atlantis - 2:07
- Tanto Que Nem Tem - 1:53
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Yonatan Gat | Director | Joyful Noise Recordings". www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
- ^ a b "Yonatan Gat: Director Album Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
- ^ "Yonatan Gat Takes Guitar Rock to Space on Director". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
- ^ a b "Listen to 'Director,' Yonatan Gat's Free-Improv Psychedelic Shred LP". Noisey. 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2018-06-21.