Yonatan Gat is a guitarist, producer and experimental composer based in NYC. Gat became known as one of the world's top performers as founder and guitarist of Monotonix, hailed by SPIN as "the most exciting live band in rock'n'roll," with concerts that destroyed the border between performer and audience, and were controversial enough to get them banned from playing their home country of Israel. While Universalists is indeed a provocative work, it goes beyond exploring the distress of our time. It not only reveals the distinction between cultures, but the complex similarities, expressing our shared need for musical ritual celebration - in any time and at any place.