Available for pre-order now, Shane Parish has announced a new live LP. Titled Solo At Cafe OTO (out July 1st via his label, Red Eft Records), on which he explores British Folk ballads by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, American folk ballads by John Jacob Niles, and a song by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, from the television program Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”.
Shane shared with us:
The album was recorded on November 14th, 2023. I was on tour with the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, and we played an evening of solo sets at a sold-out show at Cafe OTO in London. It was the night before our concert at the London Jazz Fest.
This is an instrumental solo electric guitar set exploring British Folk ballads by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, American folk ballads by John Jacob Niles, and a song by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, from the television program Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”.
All of it was played on a naked Fender Squier Telecaster plugged straight into the house amplifier. It is the same guitar I played when we recorded “4 Guitars Live” at Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht the night before, and it is the same guitar that Bill Orcutt gave me two years prior, when he first hired me to transcribe Music for Four Guitars.
Different from the tight-knit arrangements on my 2024 studio album, Repertoire (Palilalia Records), my approach to interpreting the songs in this collection is akin to how I played on my 2016 album of folk music, Undertaker Please Drive Slow (Tzadik Records), where the melody of the ballad is a catalyst for discovery, allowing the song to steer the ship, and occasionally pulling ashore to tarry in a tide pool.
Solo At Cafe OTO is released on July 1st via Shane’s own label, Red Eft Records.
Pre-Order the album now on Bandcamp (Digital/Ltd Vinyl/Autographed Test Pressings):
https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/solo-at-cafe-oto