An Autechre acoustic guitar covers album is on the way

An album of acoustic guitar covers of Autechre tracks is on the way. 

Simply titled ‘Autechre Guitar’, the 10-track album has been created by musician Shane Parish and is set for release on 27th February via Palilalia Records.

Reimagining tracks from the influential UK electronic duo’s catalogue of albums released in the ’90s – ‘Incunabula’, ‘Amber’, ‘Tri Repetae’, and ‘Lp5’ – the project’s origins date as far back as 2004, when the guitarist first transcribed a version of Autechre’s ‘Slip’. Last year, he shared a video of his nylon-string rendition of the track on YouTube. 

‘Autechre Guitar’ follows the release of Parish’s ‘Repertoire’ in 2024, which included versions of tracks by an eclectic range of artists, including Ornette Coleman, Aphex Twin, Alice Coltrane, and The Minutemen. 

Ahead of the album’s release, Parish – who is also a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – has so far released three tracks: ‘Maetl’ and ‘Eggshell’ from Autechre’s 1998 album ‘Incunabula’, and, most recently, ‘Corc’, from ‘Lp5’.

“Of all the songs on the record, ‘Corc’ took me the longest to transcribe,” Parish explained in a press release “I spent two weeks, everyday, inching my way through, rewinding, sketching out a few more beats, rewinding, watching it take shape. Pure bliss. It is the only song on ‘Autechre Guitar’ that is one-to-one between my arrangement and the original, in terms of tempo, form, and duration. It is a very conversational piece, a syncopated chattering, almost baroque in the way it feels simultaneously static and bubbling forth. It conjures memories of places we can never return to, twinkling and desolate, cutting through mundane avoidance.”

Pre-order ‘Autechre Guitar’ here.

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