Artist: Noël Akchoté
Title Of Album: So Lucky
Year Of Release: Apr 10, 2007
Label: Winter & Winter
Genre: Jazz, Avant-jazz, Acoustic Guitar
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 58:36 min
Total Size: 53,1 mb

Solo acoustic guitar albums are relatively rare, but if it comes from one of the best jazz avant-garde musicians, and when the tunes bring at the same time a relatively mainstream, even poppy ode to the music of Kylie Minogue, then you really have something unique going on. And that's exactly what Frenchman Noël Akchoté does on this CD : in a masterly fashion he transcribed the poppy melodies of the Australian megastar into small jazzy gems : fresh, nice, respectful. And the last adjective is probably the most exceptional characteristic : Akchoté respects this music for what it is, demonstrates what it really contains, once stripped from the populistic beat and mass-moving ass-moving. Even the "allaboutjazz.com" reviewer got fooled by the concept : "the tunes, an interesting mix of unknowns, sound like something you’ve heard before". Even the old hit, "The Locomotion" was covered by Minogue on one of her records. Yet this is jazz, this is blues, this is a record that gives us, with absolute technical mastery, creativity and precision, nice jazz guitar music, without pretence, without showing off, just making nice music : intimate and friendly.

TRACKLIST
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01.Bittersweet Goodbye 04:19
02.Some Kind of Bliss 03:24
03.My Secret Heart 02:21
04.Come into My World 02:59
05.Red Blooked Woman 02:55
06.The Locomotion 01:39
07.Cant Get You Out of My Head 03:33
08.Giving You Up 03:04
09.Confide in Me 03:23
10.Tears on My Pillow 02:21
11.Fragile 02:43
12.Slow 03:21
13.Tell Tale Signs 02:50
14.I Should Be So Lucky 03:47
15.Wouldnt Change A Thing 01:51
16.Turn it into Love 02:59
17.Especially for You 03:39
18.Fever 03:19
19.Ill Still Be Loving You 02:28
20.The Crying Game 01:44