Paul Amitai is a Brooklyn-based artist who performs as a one-man operation. With an array of digital and traditional instruments, Amitai mixes electronic music with avant-rock, soul music with dub reggae production, and darkly rendered vocals with gritty sonic textures.
As both a solo performer and a member/collaborator of various bands, Amitai has shared the stage with a diverse range of musicians, including Run-DMC, The Skatalites, The Specials, Califone, Pit er Pat, and Crooked Fingers. He also contributed vocals to Caural's Mirrors for Eyes (Mush Records, 2006) and has collaborated with Collections of Colonies of Bees (Table of Elements, Polyvinyl). Amitai also regularly performs improvised electronic music with live video artist/VJ Lady Firefly (Zarah Cabañas).
Past History
During the early to mid 1990s as the lead singer/guitarist/songwriter of The Pacers, Amitai toured the States and recorded a number of releases while still in his teens. The group developed a national following, headlining shows at venues such as First Avenue, the Metro and The Rave. In 1994, the group recorded the full-length album Strictly for Lovers produced by Fishbone's Chris Dowd and recorded at Pachyderm Studios, birthplace of Nirvana's In Utero.
From 1995 to 1999, Amitai fronted the downtempo electronic group Jookbeet. In 1998, the quartet of Milwaukee and Chicago musicians recorded the full-length album Underneath the Winter Glass.
From 1999 to the present, Amitai has worked as a solo artist and in various collaborative situations. Bridging the gap between the rock scene and the gallery scene, he continues to play clubs as well as alternative spaces and galleries, melding video and sound performance, pop music with experimentalism.
Important Funky Service Announcement: Laura Cheadle’s Funk-Ship will be landing in New York City at the Baggot Inn *next* Friday, October 12th at 9:45 p.m. Your presence is kindly requested.
If you’re interested in making it out, and want another reminder a day before the show, just let me know!
Hello ,
I"ve got 5 songs on my profile now!
New music coming soon.
(9 collaborations in the works!)
New artwork coming soon.
Canvasses and pencil drawings.
Hope your well, and enjoying your day, gotta get back on it.
Let me know how your doing.
(by the way this comment was added using one of those friend commenter things to give it its technical name, so in truth I"m not actually directly asking you how you are rather sending out a bogus pretence to all my myspace friends, thought i"d be honest about it, what a bastard!) I"m off to watch Russell Brand tonight, 15 to listen to him talk about his ballbags for 2 hours, phew! I"ll let you know, what I thought of it).
keep smiling
Joss
Hey hey hay...Wish I could hear/see that show tonite. Bet you're gonna rok AND roll..'Its members only 2nite'....D...bodypartsandbabies breakmypolicies buthoney...
