Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield these recordings capture both the

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

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

gentle songs which seem both ancestral and futurist

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is the true value of 7FO even without his guitar play

Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield these recordings capture both the"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