With Autechre Guitar, guitarist Shane Parish made a record that shouldn’t be possible. Taking the pioneering and highly influential 90s work of English electronic music duo Autechre, known for their unparseable rhythms, cryptic riffs, and shapeshifting timbres, and translating it to solo guitar music rooted in jazz, folk, and blues. After having already arranged music by the likes of Alice Coltrane, John Cage and Aphex Twin to solo fingerpicking guitar, he now takes this groundbreaking and inimitable music and manages to make it completely his own.
Shane Parish is a guitarist, composer, improviser, and interpreter whose work focuses on the translation of music across traditions, canons, and technologies. Known for his precise and expressive fingerstyle technique and his nuanced approach to transcription, Parish treats interpretation as a compositional practice, using existing works as material for structural and sonic transformation. He is the founder of the avant-rock group Ahleuchatistas and a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet.
