Michael Ash Sharbaugh

These are the sounds and visions of Michael Ash Sharbaugh -- a musician who hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.

Now -- from his personal recording studio located in Atlanta, Georgia -- Sharbaugh composes, records, and promotes his music and poetry at a feverish pace; he is prolific: since 1985, he has published hundreds of his own, unique poems and musical works, and has projected their reaches worldwide.

Alongside an array of synthesizers, electronics, and guitars --as well as multifid musical collaborators --Sharbaugh weaves atmospheric pop, spacerock, ambient, and experimental musics (and erotic poems, to boot).

His pop and spacerock pieces feature [his own] 'dreamy' vocals draped over spacious, electronic soundscapes with hard-driving guitars, swelling basses, and edgy, pulsating rhythms. His ambient and experimental works --conversely -- are soothing, and somewhat 'alien' to the ear: they float, shimmer, meander, and -- more often than not -- haunt ...