French musician and author who worked under various pseudonyms throughout his career. He was born 5 June 1947 and died 17 July 2013
He started out writing for the Rock & Folk magazine. His musical career was brief and he recorded under the names Melmoth and Dashiell Hedayat [a tribute to Dashiell Hammett and Sadegh Hedayat]. He also used the Hedayat name for his first books before taking on the name Jack-Alain Léger in 1974. He published most of his book under the name Léger and had a best seller with "Monsignore". Later he also wrote books under the names Eve Saint-Roch and Paul Smaïl.
The album Obsolete was written and composed on Autumn 1969 and recorded at Strawberry Studio on May 1971.
It was recorded with the musicians of Gong at the same time as the album Electric Camembert in Hérouville Castle . Its first edition on the label Shandar in 1971 was gone largely unnoticed. The album was reissued on CD by Mantra, first in 1992 and then in 2008 .
Credits
Backing Vocals [Baby Song] – Sam Wyatt
Backing Vocals [Wet Pleasure Shout And Intergalactic-whisper] – Gilli Smyth
Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Christian Tritsch
Drums [Here There And Everywhere] – Pip Pyle
Flute, Saxophone [Bloomdido-saxo], Featuring [Water Music] – Didier Malherbe
Lead Guitar – Daevid Allen
Written-By, Composed By, Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Other [Cosmic-hedayat-rumble And Cut-ups], Design [Cover] – Dashiell Hedayat
http://www.discogs.com/artist/388289-Dashiell-Hedayat
