Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield is the true value of

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

gentle songs which seem both ancestral and futurist

and a small clutch of intimate (mostly live) solo recordings

pausing in time for a reflection on nothingness

Tokyo 1985

Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield is the true value of"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