* PREORDER * SHANE PARISH - Autechre Guitar 2LP

* PREORDER * expected to arrive mid April

"On paper alone, Autechre Guitar is a fascinating endeavor. Take a visionary duo inspired by hip-hop and renowned for ceding control to their software and performing in total darkness, who have inspired haywire mutations of electronic music that seek to dissolve any remaining boundaries between our emotions and the machines we use to express them. Boil it down to just one musician and an acoustic guitar to reveal the durability of this cryptic, futuristic sound. In the midst of an ever-expanding discography that swerves from jazz and avant-garde to folk and blues, free improv and studious composition and attention-grabbing covers, Shane Parish is the perfect artist to take it on: a master’s thesis after years of intense field work.

If all that Parish accomplished with Autechre Guitar was a cerebral exercise, it would still be worthy of attention. But the questions he raises about genre and method and technology dissolve as you listen to the 10 tracks. Selecting entirely from Autechre’s melodic work of the 1990s, the Athens, Georgia-based guitarist pulls a common thread from their more beautiful moments, the elements that speak directly to the heart. A self-taught guitarist, Parish compares himself to a “wounded healer,” a virtuoso whose authority comes from his openness to failure. And unlike comparable recent album of guitar arrangements—like Jonathan Bockelmann’s dazzling Sakamoto on Guitar, which showcased the breadth and mutability of its namesake’s imposing ouvre—Parish burrows entirely into his own quiet corners of these songs, crafting something cohesive and distinct within his body of work." - Pitchfork