Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield and are chopped into by

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

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

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 and are chopped into by"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