By mixing and experimenting with pop, ethnic music, rock and R&B, Yoav has created a sound that is not only unique, but compelling to fans around the world. His eclectic music caught the ear of Tori Amos, who has taken him along as her opening act on her current US tour.

Based in London but raised in Israel and South Africa, Yoav is currently hot off the heels of his Adore EP, featuring the hit, “Beautiful Lie.”
Set for release January 29, 2008 on Verve Forecast in the US, his technically innovative debut, Charmed & Strange exhibits a myriad of sonic influences.

A wildly inventive songwriter, Yoav incorporates elements of hip hop, electronic and drum ‘n’ bass music; yet, instead of using samples and drum machines typical of those genres, the artist crafts a sophisticated pattern of kicks, snares and synth lines using only his voice and versatile acoustic guitar. Of the 12 songs on Charmed & Strange, Yoav says, “I tried to translate dance music to guitar…using it as my decks. I felt like I was DJ-ing with my guitar.”

It's a record that sounds unlike anything else around, edgy and original, but with the tunes to light up daytime radio. "I've been told it sounds like Damien Rice produced by the Neptunes, or an acoustic Nine Inch Nails, or Beck meets Buckley meets Björk. I'm not sure any of those is right. I guess I'd just say its left-of-center pop music inspired by all the big themes in my life and all the music I've been into.”

The album opens with the hypnotic “Adore Adore”, followed by “Club Thing”, a seductive tale of clubland excess in which Yoav proves he only needs his trusty acoustic to compete with Timbaland's beat-making. From there, one darkly uplifting song trips into another. “One By One” is a sighing eulogy to friends lost too early to responsibility; the yearning first single “Beautiful Lie” muses on disintegrating relationships and hidden truths; the groove-laden “Yeah, The End” paints a vivid picture of impending apocalypse; and the album is rounded off by a gorgeous, slowed down cover of the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?” that could tear a heart at a hundred paces.

Though he performs solo, armed only with his acoustic guitar, Yoav brings the magic of his recordings alive by using looping technology to create beats and multiple melodies.

Continuing through the end of the year, Yoav’s tour with Tori Amos will include stops at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. and the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Please see below for a complete schedule of tour dates.

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Yoav Winter 2007 Tour Dates:

*All Dates in Support of Tori Amos
December 3 Orpheum Theater Vancouver, BC
December 4 Schnitzer Hall Portland, OR
December 5 Paramount Theater Seattle, WA
December 7 Paramount Theater Oakland, CA
December 8 Paramount Theater Oakland, CA
December 9 Paramount Theater Oakland, CA
December 11 Dodge Theater Phoenix, AZ
December 12 Copley Symphony Hall San Diego, CA
December 13 Arlington Theater Santa Barbara, CA
December 15 The Grove Anaheim, CA
December 16 Nokia Theater Los Angeles, CA