Minimal ambient / guitar drone explorations from the French avant rock guitarist. "Akchoté's drones maintain an interesting tension between permanence and mutability... each of the four long tracks on the CD consists of a single note - or rather, chord - which Akchoté alters over the course of time by adding or subtracting harmonics, dampening, pitch-shifting and making minute adjustments to volume. Akchoté also exercises more obvious physical control at times, either audibly flipping switches to cut or attenuate a tone, or tapping on the amplified guitar strings... Throughout, there's something quite meditative about Akchoté's approach to his material. He doesn't seem to be playing for an audience as much as conducting some sort of personal investigation into the psychological and spiritual properties of sound... it has integrity, depth and a kind of austere beauty" (BBC). 

The third album in the 'Joseph Trilogy': "The character of Joseph is a place, a view or a position more than a speech. The physical representation of stand-by. There is no idea of progress, neither of improvement, in between the three solos. It's just time passing in front of someone's feet. A length and a duty, a sound and a room, a guitar and an amp" (Akchoté). Jewelcase edition.