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Date: 08:34:39 A.M., January 27, 2004 Name: jb Email address: jdb@student.unimelb.edu.au Comments: This is fantastic stuff. I thought it might destroy the mystery of the recordings, but it throws up more questions without really answering the central one (who *is* Y. Bhekhirst?). I count *nine* separate spellings of the main protagonist's name, along with six different pseudonyms, and two spellings of "Bhekhirst". As for the repeated re-copyrighting of what seem to be almost fragments of songs and recordings, the only thing I can say is that it's not standard legal practice. (The registrations take place from 1986 to 1994 (when the HITA cassette was re-released): after 1 March 1989 in the US, it was ruled that you didn't have to register formally for copyright to subsist in the work -- just making it was enough. Perhaps that's an explanation for the absence of new work after 1994.) The presence of "Almar 1", as well as all the weird names, seem to suggest that this person is fond of making up new names by weirdly concatenating old ones, but what does that say about "Bhekhirst"? Krish? Diaz? Krist? Beckhurst? Et al? The nicest thing about it, though, is that it suggests that there are similar tapes floating round the marketplace... so there's still more to learn. Thanks again for the research. I'm (very slowly) trying to work all these fragments of info into some sort of article (hence my longwinded speculation) -- and I'll inform the public when it's done. |
Date: 09:56:28 A.M., January 29, 2004 Name: Jed Distler Email address: jdistler@composerscollab.org Comments: I only "discovered" the Y. Bhekhirst tape last week. After having administered a tree to distribute the Otis Fodder 365days MP3 project on CD and DVD, I took a look at Irwin Chusid's Incorrect Music Show logs for WFUMU, and clicked on a randon show to stream. As soon a Y. Bhekhirst's "I Run My Car" started, I was mesmerized by the off kilter (a)rhythm(ical) section, the randomly splayed guitar chords, the all thumbs bass lines, and vocals that sounded like Yogi Bear sedated filtered through an analogue Al Bundy sample. After listening, I thought, "My God, I HAVE to get this recording." If you didn't know the title, you'd swear the vocalist is singing "I have a gun, I have a gun." Thanks for researching this character, his elusiveness makes Jandek look overexposed in comparison. Alll best, Jed |
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