Derek Bailey & Noel Akchote - Close to the Kitchen (London Guitar Duos August 96)

This album was first released in a limited-edition LP by the French label Rectangle in 1996. The Chicago-based Blue Chopsticks reissued it on CD in the summer of 2001 and we should thank this company. Derek Bailey records often with very different people, but this session stands out as one of his best from the second half of the '90s. At the time of this recording, in August 1996, Noël Akchoté was still part of Benoît Delbecq's group the Recyclers. His guitar technique had developed into a highly personal idiom. Read More