Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield gentle songs which seem both

gentle songs which seem both ancestral and futurist

and are chopped into by serrated electronics or washed into spiraling echoes

pausing in time for a reflection on nothingness

Tokyo 1985

the aim is not to go beyond the realm of human technical possibility but to expand it in the direction of human

Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield gentle songs which seem both"Having sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael OShea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords hed become accustomed to playing on his travels around the globe. Using an old door, 17 strings, chopsticks and combining them with phasers, echo units and amplification, the new device was to become his signature sound, mixing Irish folk influences with Asian and North