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Shane Parish at Commune
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Wed., Sep. 24
Next Wednesday, guitarist-composer-improviser Shane Parish will be performing at Commune in Avondale Estates. This past July, the Athens-based artist released ‘Solo at Café OTO,’ a collection of deconstructed and re-imagined ballads, which showcase Parish’s penchant for offbeat atmospheric music that conjures up melancholia, rumination, agitation and exultation, sometimes all in the same song.
I have not yet visited Commune, so I’m looking forward to catching Parish in a solo setting at the self-described “women-owned, minority-owned, Black-owned, Asian-owned cozy listening room and wine bar with a full dinner menu.” – Doug DeLoach
From the venue:
Parish first gained widespread attention as a solo guitarist upon the release of his 2016 album, Undertaker Please Drive Slow, on Tzadik Records. Label boss John Zorn described the album as follows: “Taking classic old timey folk songs, Shane has abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South. At times reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman, Shane uses these beautiful songs as launching pads for his creative flights of fancy, boiling them down to their very essence.”
Over the years Parish has released nine albums with his band Ahleuchatistas (est. 2002) on labels such as Tzadik, Cuneiform, and International Anthem. The current lineup features bass legend Trevor Dunn and drum virtuoso Danny Piechocki. In 2022, they released the album Expansion on Dunn’s Riverworm Records, followed by a couple US tours, a set at the 2024 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a set at Jazz Em Agosto 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Shane Parish at Commune | 09/24/2025 7:30 PM