!!! album out since 27.2.2026 on Palilalia !!!

This record shouldn’t, strictly speaking, be possible at all.
It’s not just that Autechre’s music is electronic and Shane Parish’s is acoustic. It’s not just that Autechre come from electro and techno, while Shane’s solo guitar music is rooted in jazz, folk, and the blues. Those borders, between mediums and genres, are as porous as you want them to be.

“JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT THE GUITAR, HERE COMES SHANE PARISH TO SHOW THAT YOU ARE MISTAKEN.” —THE QUIETUS

“PARISH CHOOSES NOTES LIKE A SPIDER CLIMBING A ROCK WALL, WITH AN AIR OF DELICATE, SINGLE-MINDED DETERMINATION.”—SPIN MAGAZINE

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. REPERTOIRE (2024) applies the same methodology to works by composers and artists including Alice Coltrane, John Cage, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Ornette Coleman, and Charles Mingus. Solo at Café OTO (2025, Red Eft Records) documents a live electric guitar performance of English and American folk ballads.

Parish first gained wider attention with Undertaker Please Drive Slow (2016, Tzadik Records), produced by John Zorn. The album established his approach to transforming traditional folk material through abstraction and reduction, drawing on both American vernacular music and 20th-century experimental composition.

In ensemble contexts, Parish is the founder of the avant-rock group Ahleuchatistas (est. 2002) and a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, alongside Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, and Ava Mendoza.