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YACHT is a musical moniker created by electronic musician and multimedia artist … Read Full Bio ↴YACHT is a musical moniker created by electronic musician and multimedia artist Jonathan Warren Bechtolt (A.K.A. Jona Bechtolt, born December 2, 1980). YACHT has since 2009 included musician, writer and media artist Claire Evans whose vocals had been featured on previous YACHT recordings (I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real). YACHT is based in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Bechtolt was born in Astoria, Oregon and began playing music as a teenager, dropping out of high school to play drums in his brother's touring punk band. He started working with electronics in the late 1990s and began releasing solo records under the name YACHT in 2003. Nearly all of his recordings have been distributed by both Marriage Records and States Rights Records.
Claire Evans came of age playing in bands in the underground noise scene of Los Angeles, and was part of the Portland-based The World Court. She has presented her PowerPoint performances at MoMA PS1, The Kitchenand the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and has collaborated with Bechtolt on literally hundreds of projects since they met in 2004.
In 2003, Bechtolt was commissioned to create a full length audio/visual electronic pop opera by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). He performed with his group The Badger King with bandmate Marianna Ritchie (a Wolf Colonel and Dear Nora alumnus who went on to record alone as Manta, and then Mantar).
In 2006, Bechtolt collaborated with Khaela Maricich as half of the pop group The Blow to release Paper Television. Bechtolt toured extensively with The Blow, providing beats and backup vocals until quitting the band in 2007 in order to focus on his work in YACHT.
In January 2006, Bechtolt was commissioned for two performances for the New York based art and technology platform Rhizome, as part of their "Crap-tops vs Laptops" show. In February 2006, he performed at the Museum of Modern Art's P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and produced an hour-long internet radio program with Clear Cut Press; a Northwest-based publisher of new literary work.
In 2007, for the release party for YACHT's album I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real, Bechtolt performed a concert on an actual yacht on the Willamette River in Portland.
The 2009 release, See Mystery Lights, was the first to feature Claire Evans as a group member.
YACHT live performances include dancing as well as elaborate PowerPoint presentations. Bechtolt documents his professional and sometimes personal life via video, text, and images on his blog.
In 2010, YACHT expanded to include The Straight Gaze; a backing band of 2 additional members. Bobby Birdman plays bass guitar and sings backing vocals while Jeffrey Jerusalem plays drums. In this incarnation Bechtolt and Evans both play instruments.
Bechtolt is a co-founder of the Portland-based popular blogging web community Urban Honking as well as the producer, editor, cameraman and a writer of The Ultimate Blogger.
Both Bechtolt and Evans are vegans.
Sites: YouTube, SoundCloud, Discogs, Wikipedia, Twitter and www.teamYACHT.com
Bechtolt was born in Astoria, Oregon and began playing music as a teenager, dropping out of high school to play drums in his brother's touring punk band. He started working with electronics in the late 1990s and began releasing solo records under the name YACHT in 2003. Nearly all of his recordings have been distributed by both Marriage Records and States Rights Records.
Claire Evans came of age playing in bands in the underground noise scene of Los Angeles, and was part of the Portland-based The World Court. She has presented her PowerPoint performances at MoMA PS1, The Kitchenand the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and has collaborated with Bechtolt on literally hundreds of projects since they met in 2004.
In 2003, Bechtolt was commissioned to create a full length audio/visual electronic pop opera by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). He performed with his group The Badger King with bandmate Marianna Ritchie (a Wolf Colonel and Dear Nora alumnus who went on to record alone as Manta, and then Mantar).
In 2006, Bechtolt collaborated with Khaela Maricich as half of the pop group The Blow to release Paper Television. Bechtolt toured extensively with The Blow, providing beats and backup vocals until quitting the band in 2007 in order to focus on his work in YACHT.
In January 2006, Bechtolt was commissioned for two performances for the New York based art and technology platform Rhizome, as part of their "Crap-tops vs Laptops" show. In February 2006, he performed at the Museum of Modern Art's P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and produced an hour-long internet radio program with Clear Cut Press; a Northwest-based publisher of new literary work.
In 2007, for the release party for YACHT's album I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real, Bechtolt performed a concert on an actual yacht on the Willamette River in Portland.
The 2009 release, See Mystery Lights, was the first to feature Claire Evans as a group member.
YACHT live performances include dancing as well as elaborate PowerPoint presentations. Bechtolt documents his professional and sometimes personal life via video, text, and images on his blog.
In 2010, YACHT expanded to include The Straight Gaze; a backing band of 2 additional members. Bobby Birdman plays bass guitar and sings backing vocals while Jeffrey Jerusalem plays drums. In this incarnation Bechtolt and Evans both play instruments.
Bechtolt is a co-founder of the Portland-based popular blogging web community Urban Honking as well as the producer, editor, cameraman and a writer of The Ultimate Blogger.
Both Bechtolt and Evans are vegans.
Sites: YouTube, SoundCloud, Discogs, Wikipedia, Twitter and www.teamYACHT.com
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Yacht Lyrics
Beam Me Up High above the clouds somewhere The cold of space spreads th…
Don't Fight The Darkness Don't fight the darkness Bring the light and darkness (Dis…
Drawing In The Dark Ohh ohhh Why would you be drawing in the dark? When…
Dystopia The Earth, the Earth is on fire! We don't have no…
Dystopia ' The Earth, the Earth is on fire! We don't have no…
Hologram I wanna be a hologram I wanna be a monogram My body…
Holy Roller While the wheel is spinning, spinning, A rocket's just a slo…
I One step over the line, you're not much over the…
I Believe In You Your magic's real so why aren't you using it You could…
I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler I thought the future would be cooler I thought the future…
I Walked Alone The moon goes round the earth And the moon controls the…
I Wanna Fuck You Till I'm Dead And the mountains in your backyard The more the love you…
I'm In Love With A Ripper Well, I've been so lucky it can be discouraging It's such…
It's All the Same Price It's all the same price If you want to pay it…
It's Coming To Get You I gave up one thing today And that thing will be…
I´m in love with a ripper Well, I've been so lucky it can be discouraging It's such…
Jerusalem We celebrate the wars we won The blood of history's ancient…
Le Goudron Allons-nous promener. Quel bonheur d′être né! Le chemin est …
Love in the Dark One step over the line, you're not much over the…
Matter Chiroplastic in the sea You may not matter and you matter…
Miles & Miles Everywhere we look we see a million miles away Further than…
One Step One step over the line, you're not much over the…
Paradise Engineering Hello my children Hello my sons Hello my daughters Hello my …
Platinum If you say it out load you can make it…
Psychic City I used to live live in a psychic city, I never…
Psychic City (Classixx Remix) I used to live, live in a psychic city I never…
Psychic City (Joe Goddard Remix) I used to live live in a psychic city, I never…
Psychic City - Classixx Remix I used to live, live in a psychic city I never…
Ring the Bell I was born into the glove only to take it…
Ringtone I′m not afraid of love So tell me what your thinking…
Second Summer When I first met you, I thought I′ll forget you Now…
see a penny See a penny pick it up and all day you'll have…
Shangri La I don't want to die and go on off to…
So Post All 'Em I couldn't say no But I learned how I couldn't say no But…
So Post All `Em I couldn't say no But I learned how I couldn't say no But…
Sometimes I Doubt Your Committment to Sparkle Motion And all those stupid things we buy Each other when it?…
Summer Song Summer came up and sang a song When summer came up,…
The Afterlife Land of the empire builders, land of Golden West Conquered …
The Magic Beat Do what you love Love what you do How do…
Tripped & Fell In Love Bless this hour of meditation, Just us and medication Can't …
Utopia We looked into the future In a visionary state, A psychoact…
Waste of Time (Dub) You ask me questions, and I say nothing. I, dont give…
We Have All We've Ever Wanted Protect your eyes, protect your eyes Be careful with the do…
We're always waiting We're always waiting What are we waiting for We've got…
Women Of The World Women of the world take over, If you don't the…
Yacht: I Walked Alone The moon goes round the earth And the moon controls the…
Your Magic Is Real I believe in you ... I believe in you ... I…