Friends, I am ecstatic to announce my new album, Autechre Guitar! Coming to you from Palilalia Records on February 27, 2026. Head over to my Bandcamp page where you can now listen to the first two tracks, read what Philip Sherburne wrote about it, and preorder the DOUBLE-VINYL LP / CD / DIGITAL. Cover artwork by Bill Orcutt.
It is a collection of ten songs by the English electronic music duo, Autechre, transcribed and arranged for solo acoustic guitar.
I honestly cannot believe we’ve arrived at this moment! The seeds of this project were planted way back in 2002 when Courtney Chappell first introduced me to Autechre’s 1994 album Amber. The CD was on constant rotation in our basement apartment. It was bleak midwinter, and I sat there and slowly figured out how to play the 29-beat melody to the song “Slip”. I jotted down some chicken scratch tablature in a notebook and it sat on the shelf for over two decades, occasionally coming down to be tinkered with.
Over the course of that time, I arranged and performed hundreds of songs from different genres. In 2024, I recorded two pieces of electronic music on acoustic guitar—“Europe Endless” by Kraftwerk and “Avril 14th” by Aphex Twin—which appear on my album “Repertoire”. Engaging with these masterpieces of electronic music put the wind in my sails to pursue this much larger project of navigating the complexity of Autechre in album-length form.
Autechre Guitar is the result of my deep love and respect for this otherworldly music, and a desire to render its crystalline poetry as expressively as I can on the acoustic guitar.
