Director (Yonatan Gat album)

Director
Director
Studio album by Yonatan Gat
Released	2015
Genre	Punk rock; improvisation; avant garde; free jazz; psychedelic rock;
Label	Joyful Noise Recordings
Producer	Chris Woodhouse
Yonatan Gat chronology

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[]

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[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Yonatan Gat | Director | Joyful Noise Recordings". www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
^ Jump up to: ^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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Listen to 'Director,' Yonatan Gat's Free-Improv Psychedelic Shred LP". Noisey. 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2018-06-21.

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[:0-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Yonatan Gat | Director | Joyful Noise Recordings". www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.

[:1-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Yonatan Gat: Director Album Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.

[3] "Yonatan Gat Takes Guitar Rock to Space on Director". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2018-06-21.

[:2-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Listen to 'Director,' Yonatan Gat's Free-Improv Psychedelic Shred LP". Noisey. 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2018-06-21.

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