Noël Akchoté

Noël Akchoté (born December 7, 1968 in Paris ) is a French guitarist .

Live and act

Akchoté has been playing the guitar since he was eight. He originally started with jazz and played with musicians such as Henri Texier , Marc Ribot , Jacques Thollot , Jean Méreu , Phil Minton , Max Nagl , Jean-Marc Foussat and Steven Bernstein ( Big Four Live , 2005). His current style can only be roughly outlined with avant-garde and free improvisation . Among other things, he published experimental electronica ( Rien ), homages to Sonny Sharrock ( Sonny II ) and Kylie Minogue ( So Lucky ) as well as Machaut , Gesualdo or Xenakis interpretations. At his main label, Winter & Winter , he also acted as musical director of themed projects, the so-called audio films. Akchoté also works as a producer and label operator ( Rectangle ) and writes for various online music publications, including the All Music Guide . His brother is the French electro musician SebastiAn .

title	year	Label
Soundpage (s)	1993	Deux Z
Lust Corner (with Eugene Chadbourne and Marc Ribot )	1998	Winter & winter
J'En Doute Encore	1999	Stuper & Trumpet!
Noël Akchoté and Bruno Meillier (with Bruno Meillier)	1999	SMI
Rien	2000	Winter & winter
Alike Joseph	2000	Rectangle
Simple Joseph	2001	Rectangle
Perpetual Joseph	2002	Rectangle
Impro-Micro-Acoustique (with Roland Auzet and Luc Ferrari )	2004	Blue chopsticks
Adult Guitar	2004	Blue chopsticks
Sonny II	2004	Winter & winter
So lucky	2007	Winter & winter
Black album	2013	(Noël Akchoté Downloads)
Sarah Murcia & Noël Akchoté	2016	SMNA-002 (Noël Akchoté Downloads)
KCS (Kansas City Sessions; with Mary Halvorson , Han Bennink , Brad Jones , Joachim Badenhorst )	2017	KCS-003 (Noël Akchoté Downloads)
Complete Recordings (Plays Anthony Braxton)	2017	Solo Series
As musical director for Winter & Winter audio films
Au Bordel	1999	Winter & winter
Cabaret Modern	2003
The Chestnut Ball (DoCD)	2005