This may not be the same Cinchel performance, a “house show,” I caught glimpse of on [Periscope](https://www.periscope.tv/cinchel/1lPJqqZOMvlJb) a few months back. That piece was softer, more practice-like, more as if we were peering over his shoulder as he worked through new and old techniques. This piece, nearly 13-minutes live, is commanding, as he pushes his electric guitar through (largely) off-screen pedals and software, milking chords for their densely layered, drone-cum-shoegaze intensity. An occasional glimpse of a shoulder and hair suggests this was, indeed, a performance with an audience. It’s authoritative stuff, and a great example of the way ambient/noise guitar — the piece regularly edges past the zen comfort zone of purely blissful music — is as much about the live processing as it is about handling the six-string.
It’s the latest piece I’ve added to [my ongoing YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAgCxRbmR1MJxihgJkCPEnehAPvjoF71-) of fine [“Ambient Performances.”](https://disquiet.com/2016/04/30/a-youtube-playlist-of-ambient-performances/) Video originally posted at the [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_2UHiHXK8&feature=em-subs_digest) channel of Seijin Lee. More from Cinchel, aka Jason Shanley of Chicago, Illinois, at [twitter.com/cinchel](https://twitter.com/cinchel), [cinchel.bandcamp.com](https://cinchel.bandcamp.com/), and [cinchel.com](http://cinchel.com/).