On February 27, 2026, Shane Parish released the album Autechre Guitar on Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia Records. Tackling a seemingly impossible task, Parish arranged 10 songs by the electronic UK duo Autechre for solo acoustic guitar and performed them with warmth, feeling, and precision. This June, Totally Gross National Product presents Shane Parish with opening and closing sets from a DJ TBA.

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“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
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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, 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 and a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, alongside Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, and Ava Mendoza.