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Live performance of his album Autechre Guitar
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.
His recent solo recordings center on recontextualizing music not originally written for guitar. Autechre Guitar (2026, Palilalia Records) presents acoustic fingerstyle arrangements of music by the English electronic duo Autechre. Parish's performance here will largely center on works from that album.
“Autechre Guitar is elegant and crystalline, a set of fascinating miniatures composed of unexpected links and gaps. It’s as confounding and crafted as an Escher staircase.” — Derek Walmsley, The Wire
“Ultimately, Autechre Guitar works on multiple levels… an invitation to listen deep inside the music… and to simply get lost in Shane’s astonishingly fleet playing.” — Philip Sherburne, Futurism Restated
“Super clean, incredibly precise and simply a pleasure to listen to… Autechre Guitar is a stunner.” — Glenn Kimpton, KLOFmag
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