Noël Akchoté

Noël Akchoté
Born (1968-12-07) December 7, 1968
Paris, France
Genres Jazz, pop, rock, avant-garde jazz, experimental, contemporary classical, free improvisation
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Guitar
Labels Winter & Winter
Website www.noelakchote.org

Noël Akchoté (born 7 December 1968)[1] is a French guitarist mainly active in the free improvisation, classical, experimental and free jazz.

Biography

Trained from the age of eight, he debuted as a guitarist in 1990.[2] He collaborated with a wide variety of musicians among which Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis, Daniel Humair, Jacques Thollot, Sam Rivers but mostly with Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Tim Berne and George Lewis.

Later in his career he began contributing on albums of David Grubbs, Luc Ferrari, David Sylvian, J. G. Thirlwell (for his band Steroid Maximus), Max Nagl, Andrew Sharpley, Jean-François Pauvros, and the band Earth of Dylan Carlson.

Founder of Rectangle (label).

He is the older brother of French electro artist SebastiAn.

Discography

Solo

Contributions

With David Grubbs

With The Recyclers

With Max Nagl

Filmography

Bibliography

Philippe Robert, Musiques expérimentales. Une anthologie transversale d’enregistrements emblématiques. Le Mot et le Reste/GRIM. 2007.

(Collective, edited by Franck Médioni), Albert Ayler : Témoignages sur un holy ghost, Le Mot et le Reste, 2010.

References

  1. ↑ Clergeat, André (2002). "Akchoté, Noël". In Barry Kernfeld. The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 21. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
  2. ↑ Philippe Carles, André Clergeat et Jean-Louis Comolli, Dictionnaire du jazz, Ed. Robert Laffont, Coll. Bouquins, Paris, 1994, ISBN 2-221-07822-5, p.13
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