Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield Songs like “The Love You

Songs like “The Love You Bring” set indistinct tonal floats across dance rhythms

Tokyo 1985

these recordings capture both the physical immensity and the glittering textural detail of Fusinato’s assaultive approach

gentle songs which seem both ancestral and futurist

Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield Songs like “The Love You"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