Yonatan Rukhman has been involved in music since childhood, studying the piano and the music played by his father, an expert on the baroque period. After being exposed to rock and pop music, he began playing various instruments such as bass, guitar and drums and formed various bands in his homeland, Israel. He then studied sound engineering, and began working in Tel Aviv’s well known Sigma studio.

 

He then moved to Italy, where he started working in various studios. He has been the resident sound engineer of the Solid Groove/PR Studio of Bergamo (north Italy), one of the few large scale recording studios of his area, prior to becoming a freelance engineer and producer. He has worked in studio with Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Clive Bunker (Jethro Tull), Morris Albert and various mainstream Italian pop artists. In particular he collaborated as songwriter and producer/engineer with Folk Rock/Metal band Folkstone, a very succesfull act on a european scale, with whom he has written and produced three albums, the third one recorded and mixed by Yonatan at Bohus Sound Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

He has been involved as a producer, sound engineer, arranger and songwriter in a wide range of musical productions.

 

He has also worked in some major events as a live sound engineer, touring with Folkstone all over Europe and Italy and with Labyrinth on the 2011 Sonata Arctica tour, among others.

 

Since 2008 he also produces electronic music with producer Kooki Salinas, with the alias “Yud Kei”. The duo has released various tracks on well known labels such as Baroque Records and Plasmapool.