Postcards by Michael O'Shea

22:22

MO_001_EP

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explanation of the Postcards album:

Postcards are short messages between friends and loved ones sent from far away places. Traditionally "postcards" refers to pieces of paper with messages and stamps sent via mail. But we can expand the word to include all forms of sending short messages across distances. We can think of texts, phone calls, facebook messages, tweets, skype videos, etc. all as postcards. I like to conceptualize these modern forms of communication as "postcards" because it gives them a more poetic feel harkening back to more Romantic times. This album is a collection of postcards made of sound and inspired by my relationship with a girl from Stockholm, Sweden last year. During that time I sent a lot of modern postcards across the Atlantic. It would have been more Romantic to have been sending real transatlantic postcards, but the pros of instantaneous communication won out in the end. Despite their lack of nostalgic appeal, these modern postcards eventually led to transatlantic flights in both directions and me living in Stockholm for a summer with her. These postcards were written after I came back to the States and mainly deal with the end of the relationship and the process of letting go. Fortunately, my next album is a chronological narrative of the arc of the relationship and focuses more on the more incandescent aspects of romance.

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