Rejoicer - recording name of Yuval "Yuvi" Havkin, a Tel Aviv producer, keyboardist, and the founder of Raw Tapes Records. He's Also Signed to Stones Throw.
[Rejoicer, official press photo. (Photo: Eric Coleman, courtesy of Stones Throw Records; no free-licensed image was found, used here as an honestly disclosed stand-in, not Creative Commons.)]
Rejoicer's jazzprofiles.com profile
Rejoicer is the recording name of Yuval "Yuvi" Havkin, a Tel Aviv producer, keyboardist, and the founder of Raw Tapes Records, the label behind a large share of this sub's own coverage: Amir Bresler and Sefi Zisling have both released on it. He cites a genuinely wide range of reference points, from Sun Ra and Aphex Twin to Steve Reich, Alchemist, Erik Satie, and Wu-Tang Clan.
His own catalog runs deep on Raw Tapes, starting with Street Hype (2009) and running through Anti Phlegmatic and I & I Rejoice (both 2011), Abstract Flight (2012, Botanika), Recollection (2013), and Help With Your Heart (2023). In 2018 he signed to the LA label Stones Throw Records for Energy Dreams, blending neo-fusion jazz, experimental beats, world music, and classical orchestration, followed by the Heavy Smoke EP (2019) and Spiritual Sleaze (2020).
He's also a first-call session presence across the Israeli scene, appearing on Amir Bresler's House of Arches, Oded Tzur's While You Are There (2023), and Daniel Dor and Nitai Hershkovits's Cinema Royal (2025), both already covered elsewhere on this sub.
Where to start listening:
- His official platforms: Rejoicer on Stones Throw, Rejoicer's Spotify Page
- California Space Craft (2026, Circus Company), his newest release, on Spotify
- Energy Dreams (2018, Stones Throw), his label debut
- Full bio, discography, and sourcing: Rejoicer's jazzprofiles.com profile