Athens, Georgia, guitarist Shane Parish isn’t one to shy away from a challenge (he transcribed the whole of Bill Orcutt’s Music for Four Guitars and plays as one of the Orcutt quartet), and his output is always something special, as 2024’s Repertoire, another album demanding some serious arrangement work, demonstrated. However, for his latest album, […]

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…

Jeff Mills is a titanic force in techno. As a child in 1980s Detroit, he was introduced to jazz and blues, joining industrial acts as a teenager. "You're always connected to the city you're born in," he muses. "Everything that I learned about music — all the different styles and studying bands and nightlife and becoming a DJ — started there." He decamped to New York City and Berlin in the '90s,…

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…