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DRUNKEN FISH
Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: 324 E. 13th St #7
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 DF28CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:		 11/8/99
***The time frame during which these songs were recorded brackets the demise of the seven-inch format (I wonder how many more sound media will bear a non-metric name?), a death by prohibition at the hands of the major labels. "Let them eat cassingles," they cynically proclaimed around 1988, and shame on humanity that no one was beheaded for saying so. The Shallows' songs, laid down three years after Roy's sides with thePin Group, were recorded in the midst of a Kiwi-pop boom that still admitted the single as a viable means of expression. The rest were laid down nine years later in two separate bursts of recording on either side of the United States during the format's Indian Summer.

When he recorded the majority of these songs with a four-track and a spaghetti copy of a Fender Jaguar in NYC's East Village, he was alone, but what he had was memory-of when the Byrds or Wire or Television made music that sounded like it could change his life and he was young enough to not completely dismiss the possibility-and knowledge-that music did change lives because he was alone halfway around the world partly because of it.

Alone except for an audience of cockroaches, Roy remembered what singles used to be-singular statements, discreet moments. He learned how to use that four-track and recorded a litter of songs that faced down all those looming influences; McGuinn, Newman, Verlaine and Lloyd. Then those little Yankee microlabels put them out and they floated to the top of the seven-inch glut, and we drank 'em down, and bought 'em up, and traded 'em for foolish amounts of money after they sold out. We plugged into his little universes for a while."
-liner notes excerpts by Bill Meyer

Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: Allegory Of Hearing
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 DF47CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:		 8/21/00
***After the success of last year's Roy Montgomery album on Drunken Fish, And Now The Rain..., and the first installment of Roy's singles compilation 324 E. 13th St. #7, The Allegory Of Hearing is set to bring even more adoration upon New Zealand's true "guitar hero."

Recorded in Montgomery's harbor cottage in Lyttelton, NZ, during October 1998 on his trusty Tascam Porta One and mixed in January 2000, Allegory is a return to an instrumental palette first witnessed on his debut DFR CD Scenes From The South Island and Temple IV CD (Kranky). Armed with newly acquired Rickenbacker 12-string and vintage Farfisa electric organ, plus is usual Teisco, e-bow, and Quadraverb arsenal, RM has created eight short soundtracks of a particularly meditative nature. All, save one, clock in at under six minutes, making this a slightly more digestable dish for those with smaller appetites. But fans of Montgomery's high-profile contribution to Harmony of the Spheres collection will be pleased with the exception, "Resolution Island Suite," which clocks in at over 17 minutes, was premiered at Terrastock II in San Francisco 1998, and appears here reworked in an instrumental form. The title, by the way, refers to an island at the far southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand named for British explorer Captain James Cook's vessel, the Resolution, from his second visit to NZ in 1773. The island was used 100 years later by an Irish immigrant named Richard Henry (1845-1929) as a sanctuary for endangered flightless birds that were being hunted into extinction. Unfortunately, the hundreds of birds he transferred perished, as he'd misjudged the distance small mustelid and rodent predators could swim. He retired a decade later, rather despondently, unaware that his amateur ornithological work would provide the basic knowledge and practice for conservation work for the next century and beyond. The album is therefore dedicated to Richard Henry other socially flightless birds who have turned their talents toward nature.

Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 DFR41
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:		 4/13/98
***Do the names Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond and Hash Jar Tempo mean anything to you? How about one of the finest one-sixths Harmony Of the Spheres had to offer? New Zealander Montgomery's past and present include such dignified solo and collaboratory moments, as well as work with Pin Group, Dadamah and Dissolve. Nobody else can do things like this with naught but a guitar, piano, four-track, and an armful of effects boxes.

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Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: E.N.D.
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 DF027
Price: $3.50 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:		 11/16/98
***Stands for "Eulogy for Nick Drake." Solarized bedroom recordings from the master of murmur and occasional Flying Saucer Attack collaborator-- three new songs.
Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: Scenes From South
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 DF22
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***Also see Hash Jar Tempo, Flying Saucer Attack. Pin Group/Shallows/Dadamah/Dissolve founder flees New Zealand for self-imposed exile in the US, armed with only a $150 guitar, a handful of effects boxes and a battered 4-track. Result: a beautifully melancholy work that shimmers, drones, swells and vibrates in a manner most rewarding.

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VHF
Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: Silver Wheel Of Prayer
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF49
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 2/12/01
***With so much outward-bound free action these days, it's oddly comforting to hear someone's - well, Roy Montgomery's - version of the journey to the heart of the inner cosmos. A sister record to Montgomery's Drunken Fish CD The Allegory of Hearing, Silver Wheel Of Prayer has seven complementary instrumental tracks, played mostly on Tiesco six-string and recorded mostly on four-track. A couple of tracks are dominated by a new Farfisa organ, which provides a gliding drone and waver on which to hang titles like "for the disoriented" and "for the mortified." The longest track here is "for a small blue orb," a simple strum that builds into a hypnotic pattern over 16 minutes.

"The album," says Roy, "is dedicated to Geoff Davies and Annie Leadbetter and their son Jess, who, without seeming to worry about what they were in for, welcomed me into their house and their lives at 12 Buckingham Ave, Liverpool in 1982. The longest track on this recording was first sketched out in their front room on a black Korean acoustic guitar which I christened "Rosebud." It has taken way too long to finish the sketch and to say thanks, but they really did feed my soul and I am grateful for it."

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