An unclassifiable guitarist equally at home in experimental rock, jazz,
classical and improvised music, Parisian Noël Akchoté (b. 1968) is associated
with the Instants Chavirés scene (he created the musical laboratory L'Astrolab
in 1991) and the Rectangle label, of which he is the founder. Alongside numerous
collaborations (Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Lol Coxhill, Marc
Ribot, Evan Parker...), he released a series of solo albums, including the
Joseph trilogy (1999-2003) and Sonny II (2004), dedicated to Sonny Sharrock. In
2011, he released some twenty MP3 recordin...