Roy Montgomery -Temple Iv -Kranky LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 1. She Waits on Temple IV

1.2 2. Departing the Body

1.3 3. the Soul Quietens

1.4 4. the Passage of Forms

1.5 5. Jaguar Meets Snake

1.6 6. Above the Canopy

1.7 7. Jaguar Unseen

1.8 9. the Light Is Heavy the Rain Is Soft*

1.9 10. I Will See You There*

1.10 *Bonus Tracks

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Temple Iv by Roy Montgomery, released 31 May 2024, includes the following tracks: "The Soul Quietens", "Jaguar Meets Snake" and more. This version of Temple Iv comes as a 2xLP. -

This is the first vinyl issue of Temple IV, arguably Roy Montgomery's finest solo album, originally released in 1996 on CD. The original album has been enhanced with two newer tracks that constitute side four of the album. Montgomery states: "The two new tracks recorded in 2018 were about asking the question "Can you step into the same river twice?" Heraclitus said you cannot. I say you can... " From the original press release: Few recording artists have aligned the quantity and quality of their releases as well as New Zealand singer /guitarist Roy Montgomery has in 1995. Beginning with kranky's release of the soundtrack for an imaginary film That That Is... Is (Not) by Montgomery's duo Dissolve early in the year, a series of superb albums and singles have been issued by a variety of labels across the world. Each one of them is a must have. Most recently, the Drunken Fish label released a collection of pastoral drones entitled Scenes From The South Island, singles have appeared on the Roof Bolt and gyttja labels, and further singles are scheduled with Ajax, Siltbreeze and others. Temple IV is the first solo recording by Roy Montgomery on kranky. The album was recorded by Montgomery on a four-track tape deck and then thickened up with monophonic moog. The tracks on the album are thick with interwoven guitar lines and moog drone, inspired by the Guatemalan rain forests and the mysterious ruins of the temple and ruins Montgomery visited there. Roy Montgomery spent the past year in New York, Chicago and London before returning to New Zealand. While in the UK he played live with Flying Saucer Attack and collaborated with spoken word performer Kirk Lake. A brief tour across the United States in September saw him performing before enraptured audiences in New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles. The long overdue recognition of Roy Montgomery as a crucial figure in New Zealand's musical history as a member of The Pin Group, Shallows and Dadamah, is now augmented by his new recordings. Temple IV will serve to extend and deepen that appreciation. "His crowning achievement of the period. It haunts; cajoles; taunts; seduces; and even comforts with it's use of nuance, timing, and dynamic and opaque shape-shifting elegance." -AllMusic

Recorded on a Tascam Porta One 4-track cassette recorder at 13th St., New York City, between January 15 and January 22, 1995, using a Teisco six-string guitar, microreverb, Digitech time machine, Rat distortion box and Boss digital delay pedal. Mixed to ADAT at Loose Booty Studio, Chicago on March 10, 1995. Monophonic Moog synthesizer was overdubbed on some pieces at this point. All compositions © &? Roy Montgomery First time on vinyl in a gatefold jacket with two additional tracks recorded in 2018. Runouts are etched.

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KRANK009LP

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