Michael Ash Sharbaugh

Michael Ash Sharbaugh Philadelphia-born Michael Ash Sharbaugh builds deep-layered pop, spacerock, and ambient hallucinations from a small village outside Atlanta.
His music drifts between dream-pop, vaportrap, and trip-hop, embracing 'happy accidents' like invited guests.

POP | SPACEROCK | AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL
vaportrap | triphop | hypnogogia |

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Michael began composing poetry at age 9, and music at age 15. Since 1985, He has released hundreds of original recordings and cover arrangements. His four main compositional genres are [Atmospheric] Pop, Space Rock, Ambient, and Experimental.

Michael creates, records, produces, publishes, and promotes His music 'from the ground up': He records in His Own expansive, home recording studio, and administers other duties from a home office. His primary modes of expressing Himself are through pen and paper, and -- musically -- through singing, playing piano, synthesizers, and guitar.

An ardent appreciator of the 'happy accident,' Michael is also well-known for weaving 'found sounds' -- random, homemade recordings -- into His sonic creations, affectionately 'tipping His hat' in deference to His long-time admiration for the 'music concrète' produced in the early 20th century.

Currently living in Atlanta, Georgia, Michael continues to compose music and poetry zealously. He is prolific, and releases singles on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Pandora, and Tidal regularly. Barely into His fifties, Michael is deeply intent upon composing, producing, and recording until He can do it no more.

My new one. Finished. It features a cameo rap performed by Me. Listen. Dig. Comment.
08/31/2026

My new one. Finished. It features a cameo rap performed by Me. Listen. Dig. Comment.



(Sharbaugh | Withers; arr. Sharbaugh) Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synths and sequencer programming, samples and

08/30/2026

... stayed up 'til seven writing and recording My very first 'deliberate' rap cameo for My cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine":

ain't no sunshine
when she's gone
not a brighter day
my shades are drawn

I've been sleepin' like a zombie
throughout the days
can't tell the change between the dark
and what remains

these sheets
remember 'Us'
enthralled in passion
and loving with guts

our heat, our fire
where did it go?
guessin' gone wit' you
since you slammed the do'

you were sooo delicious
upon my skin
when we made love
I took you deep within

without
god, you made me shout!
now I pace the floor
and wander all about

all her pictures
they surround
she's the queen of my life
she's all but crowned

the phone stays silent
a worthless piece of tech
but I've a glimmer of hope
brighter than a parsec

every lyric I write
a reminder
of what's inside 'er
gotta find 'er
gotta find 'er

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Thank YOU, VoyageATL Magazine, for My most recent interview:https://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-michael-sharbaugh-of-at...
07/25/2026

Thank YOU, VoyageATL Magazine, for My most recent interview:

https://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-michael-sharbaugh-of-atlanta

Today we’d like to introduce you to Michael Sharbaugh. Michael, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?I ‘penned’ My first tune while trampling rhythmically through puddles in a Jersey seaside town after realizing the summer was over, a...

Oh ... in another [richer] life, I'd attend ...
07/19/2026

Oh ... in another [richer] life, I'd attend ...

CocteauFest San Francisco 2026. For the first time ever Cocteau Twin (Simon) will attend CocteauFest. Kudos Simon Raymonde and the event's organizer Alex Westhoff (DJ Xander).

details: https://cocteautwins.com/cocteaufest-2026.html

07/18/2026

Hear My version of Chris Issak's stunning composition, "Wicked Game," on Apple Music.

06/27/2026

MY [ !!! ] "Wicked Game" ... now out on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and YouTube .

... a current work-in-progress of a tune improvised and birthed -- first -- at an Amboy Dukes concert in 1968, and then ...
06/21/2026

... a current work-in-progress of a tune improvised and birthed -- first -- at an Amboy Dukes concert in 1968, and then lovingly recorded by Ted Nugent in 1975. The record company of His did NOT want to let it see the light of day (release it), due to the fact that it had no recognizable 'chorus'; it was deemed as nothing more than a "jam session" to them.

Well, Ted released it on His first album, and -- since -- this rockin' tune has deligh-TED-ly pumped-up millions of people [like Me!!!] for 51 years.

Thanks, Ted!

(As the saying goes -- and pardon the pun -- stick to Your guns.)

I should have it finished and completely recorded (with black metal guitars) in 3 weeks.



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Eager to hear Billy Idol 's and Steve Stevens ' work on the new Billy Idol recordings! Saw a message from Billy tonite t...
06/02/2026

Eager to hear Billy Idol 's and Steve Stevens ' work on the new Billy Idol recordings! Saw a message from Billy tonite that made Moi pump My own fist up in the air -- that they had stripped their set-up down to a three-piece, and that Steve's guitar will take center stage!

This is fantastic news. Steve is My fave all-time guitarist for a multitude of reasons, and one of the biggest is how Steve manipulates electronics and effects with his guitar. No keyboardist needed.

Take, for instance, My fave Billy Idol tune, "The Dead Next Door": it truly reigns with sensitivities only Steve could muster-up. The song creeps in with a decaying delay fade-in of an end of a lamenting riff that appears later in the song (fore-shadowing), then explodes into a leif motif of crystalline brilliance -- both harmonically and sonically -- with what sounds like a synth; but, it is not.

Throughout the dark, seemingly morose tune, one can hear various states of digital [?] delays and timbres parroting Steve's main guitar figures, only to be accompanied by upper-register 'siren call' soloing and cool (read as, "cold") sprinklings of guitar pyrotechnics that merely complement -- and not get in the way of -- Billy's vocal deliveries and Billy's rhythms. And parallel to all of this, one can hear deeply chorused strummed structures punctuating the spartan Linn Drum bass drum beat. Pure genius.

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