No stranger to transformation, Shane Parish has built a career that moves fluidly between original composition and interpretive work, distilling and reimagining inspired source material—from the intimate lyricism of Chet Baker to the transcendent soundscapes of Alice Coltrane—while continually expanding his own voice, most recently on Autechre Guitar. This installment of the Lagniappe Sessions finds Parish taking on late 90s southern gothic Cat Power, the croon of Lana Del Rey, nascent Bjork, and the nearly lost hushed brilliance of German folk singer Sibylle Baier.
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Shane Parish :: Autechre Guitar
It’s unclear what gave Shane Parish the borderline insane idea of doing solo acoustic covers of Autechre on guitar, somehow notating and rearranging the liquid textures of the experimental electronic duo into wobbly diatonic diagrams. It’s even more unclear how he was able to rigorously pull it off. Through Autechre Guitar, Parish, the head of Ahleuchatistas and a member of the Bill Orcutt Quartet, maintains the sparse, glitchy ambience of the originals while placing something else entirely in its place, with just his fingerstyle technique and the ability to, with it, form these ghostly layers of superimposing concentric circles.
Bandcamping :: Summer 2024
We’re back in the thick of another wild summer — political unrest, insanely high temperatures, shark attacks, etc. For some aural AC, dig into a selection of highly recommended recent releases that run the gamut: private press folk from the 1980s to acoustic guitar Kraftwerk to sweet sounds from Senegal.