Jazz Articles about Noël Akchoté

About Noël Akchoté

Take Five With...

Meet Noel Akchote: Trained from the age of eight, Noel Akchote debuted as a guitarist in 1990. Noel Akochote has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians like Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis, Daniel Humair, Jacques Thollot, Sam Rivers, Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Firth, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Tim Berne, and George Lewis. Later in his career, Akchote began contributing on records by artists like David Grubbs, Luc Ferrari, David Sylvian, J.G Thirwell's band Steroid Maximus, Max Nagl, Andrew ...

Album Review

Noël Akchoté, Jean-Marc Foussat and Roger Turner: Acid Rain

Read "Acid Rain" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 17, 2012

This free improvised meeting between prolific French guitarist Noël Akchoté and analog synthesizer wizard Jean-Marc Foussat, and British drummer Roger Turner is unique, and not just because of these experienced improvisers' breadth of the musical language. The trio's collective sound is a multilayered, reflecting on progressive rock in its early experimental days, muscular fusion showoffs and a timbral search in its most sophisticated form, all filtered through these musicians' mature, idiosyncratic articulations. All three are well-versed in ...

Album Review

Noël Akchoté: So Lucky

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 2, 2007

Che cos’hanno in comune una sexy reginetta del pop internazionale ed un chitarrista d’avanguardia parigino con un nome pressoché impronunciabile? Proprio nulla. Sennonché, al suddetto chitarrista picchiatello ronza in testa un’idea a dir poco bizzarra: allestire un intero album di cover della bella Kylie Minogue. Detto, fatto. Esce con il prestigioso beneplacito dell’accigliato Stefan Winter questa piccola gemma dal titolo assolutamente azzeccato: So Lucky. L’avrete già intuito e, quindi, tanto vale scoprire subito le carte: il sottoscritto si è già ...