The incredibly unique guitarist Shane Parish is touring in support of his latest album "Repertoire" to be released May 10, 2024. The album consists of fourteen solo guitar arrangements of works by John Cage, Charles Mingus, Capt. Beefheart, Alice Coltrane, Aphex Twin, Ornette Coleman, Kraftwerk, Eric Dolphy and more! This will be a solo guitar performance in one of the city's most unique and intimate venues. National Public Radio has this to say about Shane:
Shane Parish is a relentless interpreter. The guitarist's catalog is full of folk songs, sea shantiesand the Chet Baker Sings album thoughtfully and playfully mangled. (Parish also notated and arranged Bill Orcutt's Music for Four Guitars for, well, four guitars — their Tiny Desk is raucously joyful.) His latest album, Repertoire, takes on Aphex Twin, Minutemen and Alice Coltrane songs, but I keep coming back to Parish's version of "Lonely Woman." The original was perhaps the closest we ever got to a "pop" song by free jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman — the way his saxophone slides the melody with pocket trumpeter Don Cherry has such as slinky je ne sais quoi. Curiously, on acoustic guitar, Parish doesn't use a slide to recreate that effect; rather, he reconstructs the melody around bluesy bends, hammer-ons and overtones — the "Lonely Woman" becomes a phantom.
Athens, Georgia-based guitarist Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive musicianship. He is a self-taught player who communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety, simultaneously drawing from the guitar’s history and aiming for its future.
He records and performs as a soloist, as a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, and, for over 20 years, he has led the avant-rock band Ahleuchatistas. He is also a highly in-demand educator.
—Lars Gotrich, NPR
This is a return trip to Mobile, Alabama for Shane. Last summer, he appeared with his instrumental math rock band Ahleuchatistas at The Merry Widow. He is also a regular feature at the BIG EARS Festival in Tennessee.
Opening act for this event will be Ted Mathews from New Orleans.
