Yonatan Gat: Director [Album Review]

Yonatan Gat
Director
Joyful Noise Recordings [2015]

Fire Drill Album Review: The follow-up to the Israeli-born guitarist’s promising 2014 record Iberian Passage, Yonatan Gat’s Director is largely more of the same—not that that’s a bad thing. Relying heavily on free improvisation and drawing influence from a variety of 60s and 70s acts (think Jimi Hendrix and Os Mutantes with a generous dose of German artists like Can, Ash Ra Tempel, and Amon Düül II), Gat and his band keep things in motion throughout the record, one minute playing a delicate acoustic ballad, the next a thundering acid-soaked cosmic exploration. One can’t help but wonder what might happen if Gat were to refine and develop his freewheeling sound a bit more, but if live energy and no-holds-barred psych-improv is your thing, Director is right up your alley.



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-Reviewed by Simon Workman

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Simon Workman has loved rock n' roll ever since his dad made him Beatles and Beach Boys mix tapes as a kid. These days his musical interests have a wide range, though he still has a strong connection to the music of the 60s and 70s. He lives in Dayton and teaches English at Sinclair Community College. You can follow him on Instagram @GemCityRecordCollector.

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