NOEL AKCHOTE 13 QUESTIONS. ...If you could, what would you say to yourself 30 years ago, about your musical career? Thats an interesting question in fact. The very first thought that comes to mind is an experience i discovered I shared with David Sylvian pretty much the same. The day we left school because I was already far too advanced in music, not thinking about much else, I was 16, on a friday morning it came as an evidence that I had to leave and dedicate myself totally to guitar and music only. On that day, as i went out of the school knowing i will never probably get back ever in my life as a student I had that incredible feeling of mixed emotions and thoughts. One one side probably the strongest feeling of freedom that I ever had my whole life, on the other a certain fear of what future will be (I remember telling to myself that in the worst case I could end on the street, and then would try to join some groups like army or church or firemen or etc). The second part of your question concerns a “musical career” and this is something that I question a lot today since. I dont feel at all im doing a career, i do all i do because i really have to for my own self. Then eventually i share it or let the door open to others to come share if they like but thats became almost accessory. Music for me will never really be a profession, there is one and I did it for long but since over 10 years, its just my life and i stepped out of most professional aspects. 30 years ago i thought it will be very hard for me to come anywhere near close to my heroes (Philip Catherine, René Thomas, John Abercrombie, Derek Bailey, Christian Escoudé, Pat Martino, Jim Hall, Bill Frisell, John Scofield etc). Today I have the same idols and the same questions when it comes for me to confront my actual playing to what I hear in them (and never actually stopped to listen since). I have a very basic way to measure in % in fact. Until I was 30 years old I felt always to be like 60-70% of that goal, today with 45 I feel i probably came 75-80% to it. But those very last 20% are the harder ones, but i work hard too. More generally as a kid i very early came across the society as something brutal and harsh, as human relations being based on all sorts of fights and confrontations that I had absolutely no link to, nor any desire to enter it. So i joined a sort of fairy world of guitars and jazz, and went so deep into it that i even met most of my heroes before I was 18. I started to invent my own world and life very long ago and i never ceased to live in it since, and I enjoy that so so so much, you know. READ AND HEAR HERE preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/08/noel-akchote-13-questions.html or JOIN US in our FACEBOOK CHANNEL https://facebook/groups/preparedguitar/ Well be back on 1st September
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:11:02 +0000
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