Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield For Rebilly and Chalk

For Rebilly and Chalk

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

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

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

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

Michael O'Shea – Michael O'Shea [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield For Rebilly and Chalk"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