Michal Gutman is a one-woman-band, her intense solo act featuring a bass guitar, a loop station, 2 mics and a touch-pad synthesizer. Her music is a patchwork of harmony and disharmony, somewhere between a theatrical cabaret, a storyline told on an 80’s club dance floor, or a dreamy soundtrack : while using polyrhythmics and contradicting loops to push the boundaries of sound just a bit further.
Gutman’s new project is a singles project, with different songs to be released gradually. Its title track, “War boys ” is the second one , and was released in September 2025. The project continues Gutman’s fascination and research of the subjects of identity during catastrophe, personal grief versus society’s grief, and beauty.
the project follows Gutman’s first solo album, “Never Coming Home”, released in 2024, and a decade of touring and recording with her band, Whaling Snails, that resulted in two albums, “Songs For Yael” (2015), and “The Wind Around Your Heart” (2019).
praise for “Never coming home” :
“Not since Poe’s Haunted, have I heard an album straddle the line between fragile and confrontational so aptly.. The end result of all of this is something that feels carefully constructed yet also feels like it’s about to come unwound at any moment. It’s as if she’s made this beautiful object and is now threatening to smash it to pieces. That’s the beautifully unhinged quality of Michal Gutman’s art, a musical glass cannon.”
– Kendon Luscher, Coolest Album Of The Week, Bearded Gentlemen Music
““Never Coming Home” is a darkly beautiful album; an album of twisted musical discovery, with songs worthy to fall from the lips and the pen of the great Dory Previn; songs that pull you into a strange and beguiling solitude place, where you only have memories and fears and regrets for company. Musically stark and bewitching like an unused broken fairground ride: a bass guitar has never sounded so much like the faded remnants of an old lover’s final kiss. “Never Coming Home” is quite simply stunning.”
– Brian ‘Bordello’ O’Shea, Monolith Cocktail
monolithcocktail.com/2024/05/28/our-daily-bread-619-bloom-de-wilde-al-hotchkiss-eamon-the-destroyer/
releases July 25, – 2026
Words and music by Michal Gutman.
Recorded and mixed by Yiftah Yeshurun, at Salon Kalon Studios, Gan Shmuel.
Michal Gutman: Vocals, Bass, Korg Kaossilator,
Yiftah Yeshurun: Programing, Guitars
Tuval Brown: Drums and Percussion.
Tamar Zinger: backing vocals.