Musick that Needed Work - R: Roy Montgomery

 

Finally made it through the R folder. More than I Remembered. & they just get deeper for the next two: S & T. Might hold off for a few, even though I'm trying to get through to Z.

This is a recent addition to the Musick that Needed Work folder. I'm glad it hasn't taken ten years to fix this one. This is some fine music here. I'm glad I worked on this one. It is one of my very favorites.

 

Roy Montgomery is a composer, singer, guitarist, & lecturer from Christchurch, New Zealand. He is one of the most significant musicians of the 1990s New Zealand music scene. Montgomery's mostly instrumental solo works have elements of post-rock, lo-fi, folk & avant-garde experimentation. His signature sound might be described as atmospheric or cinematic, often featuring complex layers of chiming, echoing &/or droning guitar phrases. He created a successful hybrid of all these styles with his ensembles Dadamah, Dissolve, & Hash Jar Tempo.

In 2021 the still very active Montgomery released four albums: Island of Lost Souls that contains the 22-minute "The Electric Children of Hildegard Von Bingen"; That Best Forgotten Work, presumably a collection of leftovers & rarities; Rhymes of Chance which collects instrumentals, songs performed by him as well as songs performed by Emma Johnston: & Audiotherapy, a collection of leftovers & rarities ranging from the spoken-word piece "Occlusione" to the instrumental "Audiomemory". 

 

Roy Montgomery - Island of Lost Souls, Grapefruit Records GY11-1, 2021.
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Cowboy Mouth (for Sam Shepard)    
Soundcheck (for Adrian Borland)    
Unhalfmuted (for Peter Principle)    
The Electric Children of Hildegard Von Bingen (for Florian Fricke)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ