Lust Corner
Noel Akchote is a young guitarist, 14 years the junior of his compatriots on this series of duets. Further, although Akchote has studied with some diehard mainstreamers, he's also played with the likes of British free-abstractionists Derek Bailey andFred Frithas well as saxophone virtuoso Evan Parker and vocalist Phil Minton. He plays elegant foil on this set to Marc Ribot's touching side, especially onOrnette Coleman's "New York." He also does time digging in the grit with Eugene Chadbourne's most smart-edged (if not smart-assed) tone on "Chadology" and on Coleman's "Peace Warriors." Four Coleman tunes make the cut here, all sounding as skewered as they must've when the composer loosed them. What's also here, though, is a delicate sense of what two guitars can and will accomplish all by their lonesomes. But this is first and foremost a daring peek into the way instruments clash and mesh, often at the same time.--Andrew Bartlett