Noël Akchoté
| Noël Akchoté | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 7, 1968 |
| Origin | France |
| Genres | Rock, jazz rock, experimental rock, drone rock, jazz, jazz fusion, free jazz, avant-garde jazz, experimental, avant-garde, drone, classical, neoclassical, contemporary classical, free improvisation |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, producer, author |
| Website | http://www.noelakchote.org |
| Notable instruments | |
| Guitar | |
Noël Akchoté (born 7 December 1968, Paris) is a French guitarist mainly active in the free improvisation, classical, experimental and free jazz.
Trained from the age of eight, he debuted as a guitarist in 1990. 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.
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.
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