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. Assayas released the first GLASYS EP, ''The Pressure,'' in 2016. In 2018, he released a cover of the Dark World theme from ''

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''. In 2019, he funded the production of a full-length GLASYS album using

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, to be delivered mid-year. Assayas has also released numerous videos through his GLASYS YouTube channel, often focusing on improvisations or new equipment he is trying out. In 2018, Assayas toured as the keyboardist of

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's band

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after the originally-announced keyboardist,

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, bowed out. He appears in the 2019 live video release from that tour. In July 2019, Assayas and Rundgren jointly released the single "People". In 2020, Assayas toured as the keyboardist of

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's band Kasim Sulton's Utopia. In 2021, Assayas appeared on

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Assayas, Gil 21st-century Israeli male musicians Living people Musicians from Portland, Oregon Year of birth missing (living people)