''Director'' is

Yonatan Gat Yonatan Gat is an Israeli music producer, producer, guitarist, and composer based in New York City. His cross-genre work has been called "a vital new music form" by a "legendary live performer" by ''Magnet (magazine), Magnet'' magazine, "melding ...

's debut full-length studio-album released in 2015 on

Joyful Noise Recordings Joyful Noise Recordings is an independent record label from Indianapolis, Indiana. The label was founded in 2003 in Bloomington, Indiana by Karl Hofstetter, who also played drums on many of the label's first releases. Joyful Noise maintains an a ...

. Gal Lazer plays drums, and Sergio Sayeg is on bass. The album was recorded live by Chris Woodhouse (

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Thee Oh Sees Osees are an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1997, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band currently consists of primary songwriter and core member John Dwyer (vocals, guitar), Tim Hellman (bass), Dan Rincon (d ...

) 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 Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

. Stylistically the album samples a wide-variety of global traditions "touch ngon everything from bossa nova to

soukous Soukous (from French '' secousse'', "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music from Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville. It derived from Congolese rumba in the 1960s, becoming known for its fast dance rhythms and intricate guitar impro ...

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-style jazz-rock to the head-swimming spazz-outs of

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," 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."

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

2018 albums Joyful Noise Recordings albums Yonatan Gat albums {{2010s-punk-album-stub