Label: Dome Records
Catalog#: DOM 33.2
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1982
DISCOGS AMAZON
Untitled LP issue
A1 No Journeys End
A2 Kerry
B1 Guitar No.1
B2 Voices
B3 Anfa Dásachtach
WMO selftitled CD issue
1 No Journeys End 15:18
2 Kerry 2:29
3 Guitar No.1 (Take I) 3:21
4 Guitar No.1 (Take II) 3:17
5 Voices 8:33
6 Anfa Dasachtach (Turbulent Storm) 4:42
7 Seance Of A Kondalike 3:28
8 A Dead Rose 3:26
9 Easter Island 8:30
10 Seance Of A Kondalike (Backing Track) 3:28
11 A Dead Rose (Backing Track) 4:05
O'Shea was a free-spirited Irishman who had a penchant for travel and inventing instruments. His trademark sounds came from an instrument based on a dulcimer called a Mo Cara (Gaelic for 'My Friend'). The sound is both haunting and mesmerising, recalling traditional Irish and Eastern sounds, but blending them with the many other cultures than O'Shea experienced on his travels.
The sound is so complete that it really works best in isolation. The album's magical highlight, No Journey's End is a solo 15-minute masterpiece that appropriately had those at its recording 'reduced to tears by its unearthly beauty'. Some of the additional tracks, where O'Shea is augmented by other musicians and instruments, don't seem to have quite the same magic, although A Dead Rose, a collaboration with Stano, is mesmerising.
from Wireviews July, 2001 text by Craig Grannell
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