Yonatan Gat’s Director Gets Noisey

YONATAN GAT UNLEASHES DIRECTOR LP STREAM

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW ON MARCH 3RD AT UNION POOL

“OPEN STUDIO” THIS WEEK AT PIONEER WORKS IN BROOKLYN

LISTEN TO DIRECTOR HERE

Yesterday Noisey shared an interview and a stream of guitar virtuoso Yonatan Gat’s new album, Director, out March 3rd on Joyful Noise Recordings.

Yonatan has announced a residency Wednesday through Sunday from 4pm to 6pm this week at the Red Hook, Brooklyn art center, Pioneer Works.  The studio will be open to the public and the band is encouraging people to go watch them play live and record during those hours.

Yonatan Gat is also playing a record release show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool on March 3rd.

ABOUT DIRECTOR:

Master guitarist, Yonatan Gat (Monotonix) is back with 11 new punk inspired, improvisational, psychedelic mind-melters.  Recorded live by Chris Woodhouse (Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees) in less than 3 days during a US tour, the band went into the studio intentionally limited to basic song structures and ideas.  The goal was to capture the riotous and intricate improvisations of the band’s live show.  In this spirit, they ended up playing in the studio for hours upon hours every day, filling endless tapes with the band improvising live, while Woodhouse meticulously recorded every single note being played. The following months were spent sorting through the tapes, editing the musical experience to a glorious narrative whole.

Inspired by soundtrack virtuosos like Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, Director is a cinematic circular journey around the music of the world, East to West and North to South.  This journey is interconnected by field recordings that Gat has taken during his travels, lending it a feeling of space and time, with a certain directionality.

The result is a genre-bending opus that finds the band seamlessly exploring different styles of music from Brazilian psych and Afrobeat to free jazz, Middle Eastern surf and 20^th century classical avant-garde, sometimes in the span of just one song – “weaving styles together like the great jazz musicians of the 60’s,” (The Bay Bridged).  Gat’s unparalleled guitar remains mysterious, wildly inventive and dynamic, taking unexpected psychedelic turns throughout the record, backed by Gal Lazer’s hard-hitting African-inspired grooves, and Sergio Sayeg’s (of Brazilian garage rockers Garotas Suecas) pumping bass.

TOUR DATES

3/3 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool (Record Release)

3/4 Charlottesville, VA @ Tea Bazaar

3/5 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt *

3/6 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *

3/7 Washington, DC @ Club 9:30 *

3/8 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *

3/9 New Haven, CT @ Toad’s * ^

3/10 Boston, MA @ Paradise * ^

3/11 New York, NY @ Webster Hall *

3/16 Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light

3/17 New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar

3/18 Houston, TX @ Walter’s Downtown * ^

3/19 Austin, TX @ SXSW (Club 405, 11PM, more shows TBA)

3/20 Austin, TX @ SXSW (Hotel Vegas, 4:45PM, more shows TBA)

3/21 Austin, TX @ SXSW (details TBA)

3/22 El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace

3/23 Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room 

3/24 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell

3/25 San Diego, CA @ Hideout

3/26 Long Beach, CA @ Alex’s Bar

3/27 Visalia, CA @ Cellar Door

3/28 Oakland, CA @ Night Light

4/1 Portland, OR @ The Know

4/3 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon &

4/4 Boise, ID @ Neurolox

4/5 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

4/6 Denver, CO @ Glob

4/7 Lincoln, NE @ Vega

4/8 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s

4/9 Detroit, MI @ PJ’s Lager House

4/10 Toledo, OH @ Iggy’s

* w/ Of Montreal

^ w/ Deerhoof

& w/ Calvin Johnson