Director (Yonatan Gat album)

2015 studio album by Yonatan Gat

Director

Studio album by

Yonatan Gat

Released| March 3, 2015 (2015-03-03)
Genre|

* Punk rock
* improvisation
* avant garde
* free jazz
* psychedelic rock

Label| Joyful Noise Recordings
Producer| Chris Woodhouse
Yonatan Gat chronology
| Iberian Passages EP
(2014)  | Director
(2015)  | Universalists
(2018)

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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

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1. East to West - 5:06
2. Casino Café - 2:09
3. Canal - 1:28
4. Gold Rush - 3:15
5. Theme from a Dark Party - 1:50
6. North to South - 5:48
7. Boxwood - 1:19
8. Gibraltar - 3:23
9. Underwater Prelude - 0:58
10. L'Atlantis - 2:07
11. Tanto Que Nem Tem - 1:53

## References

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1. ^ a b "Yonatan Gat | Director | Joyful Noise Recordings". www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
2. ^ a b "Yonatan Gat: Director Album Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
3. ^ "Yonatan Gat Takes Guitar Rock to Space on Director". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
4. ^ a b "Listen to 'Director,' Yonatan Gat's Free-Improv Psychedelic Shred LP". Noisey. February 24, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2018.

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