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Roy Montgomery

Roy Montgomery (born 1959) is a composer, guitarist and lecturer from Christchurch, New Zealand. Montgomery's mostly instrumental solo works have elements of post-rock, lo-fi, folk and avant-garde experimentation. His signature sound might be described as atmospheric or cinematic, often featuring complex layers of chiming, echoing and/or droning guitar phrases. He is currently head of the Environmental management department at Lincoln University in New Zealand.Montgomery has played in several New Zealand bands since 1980, most notably The Pin Group, Dadamah, Dissolve and Hash Jar Tempo. He has also released solo albums on labels including Kranky and Drunken Fish.

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Genres rock experimental electronic space rock abstract

Albums

  1. Scenes From the South Island
    1995
  2. Temple IV
    1996
  3. And Now the Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It
    1998
  4. True
    1999
  5. The Allegory of Hearing
    2000
  6. Silver Wheel of Prayer
    2001
  7. Bruce Russell / Roy Montgomery
    2012
  8. R M H Q: Headquarters
    2016
  9. Q: Transient Global Amnesia
    2016
  10. M: Darkmotif Dancehall
    2016
  11. R: Tropic of Anodyne
    2016
  12. H: Bender
    2016
  13. Headquarters
    2016
  14. Refuse
    2018
  15. Suffuse
    2018
  16. After Nietzsche
    2019
  17. Roy Montgomery 40th Anniversary 2021 LP Series
    2021
  18. That Best Forgotten Work
    2021

Other releases

  1. Just Melancholy
    1996
  2. Winter Songs
    1997
  3. Goodbye
    1997
  4. 324 E. 13th Street #7
    1999
  5. Inroads: New and Collected Works
    2007
  6. Roy Montgomery / Grouper
    2010
  7. Music From The Film Hey Badfinger
    2012
  8. Ocean
    2017
  9. Island of Lost Souls
    2021