YACHT is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA. All people are welcome to become members of YACHT.

Accordingly, YACHT is and always will be what YACHT is when YACHT is standing before you.

YACHT was formed in 2002 as Y.A.C.H.T., "Young Americans Challenging High Technology." Y.A.C.H.T. and, eventually, YACHT, has released four albums to date. What you are looking at is the first full-length release for DFA RECORDS.

The current incarnation of YACHT began gestating in 2008 with the first introduction of Claire L. Evans, and at this point bears no resemblance to the previous versions. The YACHT of 2009 is the true form of YACHT.

The 2009 form of YACHT is highly indebted to the “Mystery Lights,” an unexplained optical phenomena native to the Far West Texas desert, where most of the new YACHT album, See Mystery Lights, was written and recorded.

The cover of See Mystery Lights was done by Boyd Elder, a Texan artist best known for his album art for the Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), an iconic fragment of the rock history of the mythical American West. YACHT became disciples of Elder after finding him in the desert (searching for peyote cactus) in early 2008.

Strictly speaking, YACHT does "perform music." YACHT provides inspiring Teachings of constantly changing elements: PowerPoint presentations, immersive audio, live audience audits, and shamanistic video environments. The YACHT Performance is expressly designed to provide groups of people with catharsis and purification.

YACHT is about group consciousness. YACHT is about the individual man or woman. If you believe these assertions to be contradictory, consider the Triangle: it is both a collection of points and a shape.

The Triangle is also a concept map between three points. But it is not merely a concept.

Secondary interpretation of YACHT and the Triangle is not forbidden, but strongly frowned upon. YACHT is always available for consultation at the source (please email trust@teamyacht.com), so misinterpretations are unnecessary and will always be corrected. A general policy of openness and light has been instated.

YACHT believes that all people have a right to Free thought, Free expression, to write their own opinions freely and to counter, utter, and write upon the opinions of others. There is a difference between Free as in "Free Lunch" and Free as in "Liberated." YACHT believes that music and the Internet will become both, in time.

YACHT IS NOT A CULT.

No additional information will be divulged for the time being.