Y. Bhekhirst's lyrics & chords

Y. Bhekhirst is an outsider musician about whom next to nothing is known, but whose one album, Hot in the Airport, released in New York on HDG Records in 1986, is prized by some 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; Bhekhirst's method is to sing a verse, in itself very repetitive, two, four or six times, and then to stop abruptly. This is typically backed up by one or two guitars, bass, and drums, with eac...read more