Yonatan Gat is a New York-based experimental guitarist and bandleader.

His band, Monotonix, was banned from playing concerts in Israel, leading Gat to live in Paris, Port, and New Orleans before settling in New York in 2013.

Gat played over 1000 concerts with Montonix during their 5-year existence. The band worked with numerous collaborators in this period, including Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye and Guy Picciotto, and the founder of K Records, Calvin Johnson.

Following Montonix’s 2011 world tour, Gat began an anthropology degree at Columbia University. During this time he began performing and recording as a solo artist and bandleader. After several tours of the United States and Europe, Gat released his debut EP, Iberian Passage, in the spring of 2014 on Joyful Noise Records. 2015 saw Gat’s debut full-length studio album, with the release of Director, also on Joyful Noise.

Joyful Noise released Gat’s latest full-length, Universalists, on May 4, 2018. The late David Berman, of The Silver Jews and Purple mountains, produced the record.

Gat’s most recent release is a split 7-inch with Os Mutantes.

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