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Y. Bhekhirst is an outsider musician about whom next to nothing is known, but whose one released album, Hot in the Airport, is prized by outsider music collectors for its bizarre, shambling songs. Hot in the Airport is full of meandering lyrics about cars and rain and love, sung in a thick, unidentifiable accent; this is typically backed up by one or two guitars, bass, and drums, with each of the stringed instruments playing a different melodic fragment, over and over again, creating a texture made up of several of these strange, angular, asynchronous patterns. No one knows whether all this is the product of a band, or of one person repeatedly overdubbing parts on different instruments. When these patterns are combined with the semi-random drumming and the "your-uncle-at-open-mic-night" vocals, the effect is unlike anything one has ever heard—but unlike Jandek, whose music drives away most listeners on first hearing, or Shooby Taylor, who usually inspires laughter, Bhekhirst's music is oddly appealing, and songs like "Rain in Summer" and "Hot in the Airport" have a remarkable, almost insidious way of getting stuck in one's head for weeks afterward.
Information on Y. Bhekhirst is scarce, to say the least, but recent searches at the U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.copyright.gov/records/cohm.html) have revealed that the driving force behind Bhekhirst is probably a man named Jose Hugo Diaz Guzman (the name "H. Diaz" shows up on pretty much all known releases of material from Hot in the Airport).
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