Yonatan Gat

During the band's 5-year existence, Gat played 1,000 concerts as its guitarist and co-founder, collaborating with musicians such as Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto and Beat Happening and K Records founder Calvin Johnson, while touring as support for Pavement, Faith No More and Silver Jews. The latter's frontman David Berman would go on to co-produce Gat's 2018 sophomore LP Universalists. In 2008, Monotonix were called "the most exciting live band in rock 'n' roll" by Spin Magazine.

Gat's latest album, Universalists, was released through Joyful Noise Records on May 4, 2018. In that same year he went on to release a split 7-inch with Os Mutantes, be featured as guest guitarist on legendary Nigerien band Tal National's new album, and premiere (on cinema outlet NOWNESS) a collaboration with a Rhode Island Algonquin powwow drum ensemble – the Eastern Medicine Singers. The album's release was followed by a world tour with Gat backed by an 8-piece band which included members of his own ensemble of musicians, as well as the Native American drummers and singers of the Eastern Medicine Singers.

Gat began touring the United States and Europe both as headliner and sharing the stage with artists such as Thee Oh Sees and Sun Ra Arkestra, often performing his set on the floor in the middle of the audience. He released his debut EP, Iberian Passage, written and recorded while he was living in Portugal, in the spring of 2014 on Joyful Noise Recordings and his full-length studio album debut, Director, followed in 2015. Within months of Director's premiere, an EP produced by Steve Albini titled Physical Copy followed. Gat's band performed in SXSW that year and was praised by BuzzFeed and SPIN as one of the best shows of the festival.

His band Monotonix got banned from playing concerts in Israel which led Gat – a conscientious objector – to leave his home country and perform around the world, playing 2,000 concerts in 5 continents. Rolling Stone editor David Fricke celebrated the multiculturalism of Gat's sound, calling him "a citizen of the world," adding "Gat wields his guitar like a universal translator."

After relocating to Paris, Porto, and New Orleans, Gat found a home in New York, where his work was profiled by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Wire, UNCUT, Pitchfork, NPR, Vice,The New Yorker and People Magazine. The Village Voice named him "Best Guitarist in New York, 2013," and The Guardian listed his album Universalists in their top ten contemporary albums of 2018.

After Monotonix's final world tours in 2011, Gat settled in New York and began recording and performing as a bandleader and solo artist, engaging Gal Lazer (drums) and Sergio Sayeg (bass) as his core studio-collaborators while expanding his projects to include musicians such as Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and Thor Harris (Swans).