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We all miss the joy of live music together. Live From My Living Room aims to help us all connect again. We're happy to welcome Shane Parish into our living rooms from his home in Asheville, NC
We all miss the joy of experiencing live music together. Live From My Living Room aims to help us all connect again. We're happy to welcome guitarist/composer/educator Shane Parish into our living rooms from his home in Asheville, North Carolina.
This show will stream on our Facebook page as well as our YouTube page. Event links here soon.
Shane Parish is a guitarist residing in Asheville, North Carolina, who devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive voice on the instrument. A self-taught musician, his teenage years were spent improvising and writing original music with friends. Later he taught himself to read music, studied theory, and learned classical guitar, jazz and folk styles. His sound simultaneously draws from the guitar’s rich history and aims for its future. He communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety.
Parish is known for his work fronting the electric duo Ahleuchatistas, described by The Wire Magazine as “…knotty, instrumental rock that blends punk, prog, jazz, non-Western music and improv into something exhilarating and even awe-inspiring.” Other media who have had their say about Ahleuchatistas include Pitchfork ("possessed of many moments of beauty and mayhem"), National Public Radio ("the kind of musical tug-of-war that sounds as jagged as it is graceful"), and The New York Times ("music of upfront physicality and twitchy intent”). Their 2004 album, The Same and the Other, (re-issued in 2008 on Tzadik Records) was described by NYC composer John Zorn as “one of the most intense documents of compositional rock complexity ever recorded,” and “a cult rock masterpiece.” Ahleuchatistas has toured internationally and released albums on Tzadik, International Anthem and Cuneiform Records.
Parish is also known for his dexterous, finger-style acoustic guitar work, informed by American masters such as Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten, Brazilian masters such as Luiz Bonfa and Bola Sete, Spanish masters such as Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, jazz masters such as Jim Hall and Charlie Christian, to name but a few. Avant Music News described Parish as “one of the most consistently innovative finger-picking acoustic guitarists in a generation.” His 2016 breakthrough solo acoustic album, Undertaker Please Drive Slow, was released on Tzadik records, placing him in the company of such celebrated guitar soloists as Marc Ribot, Tim Sparks, Derek Bailey, and Bill Frisell. Of this recording, Marc Ribot wrote “Shane Parish is one of the most interesting new guitar voices to come out of the country blues tradition of Mississippi John Hurt, Lighting Hopkins…”
Parish continues to release recordings of public domain folk music. In 2019 he self-released a 147-song album entitled The Fireside Book of Folk Songs, consisting of his unique takes on hymns, sea shanties, work songs, and folk ballads. His original composition, “Leicester Hwy”, was included in the 2019 compilation, Imaginational Anthem Vol. 9, on Tompkins Square Records.
As a collaborative free improvisor, Parish has performed and recorded with many creative musicians, and has released duo albums with trumpeter Jacob Wick, percussionists Tatsuya Nakatani and Frank Rosaly, and guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and Tashi Dorji. This work has been featured in Downbeat Magazine, Bomb Magazine, The Wire and more. Parish's essay "I Got Nothing" was published in the book Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Music |
TAGS: | Shane Parish | Live From My Living Room | concert |
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