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Roy Montgomery

Musician
Forlisteners into psychedelic/ambient guitar, drone and space rock fans, admirers of new zealand’s underground and experimental scenes.
4 Reviews 3 Definitions 14 Charts
Psychedelia Experimental Ambient

The Profile

Christchurch-born guitarist/composer Roy Montgomery is a key New Zealand figure in psychedelic and ambient guitar music, active since the early 1980s in bands like The Pin Group, Dadamah, and Dissolve, and acclaimed for immersive solo albums such as Scenes From The South Island, Temple IV, And Now the Rain..., and The Allegory of Hearing.

Collaborated with Bardo Pond as Hash Jar Tempo; early member of The Pin Group (an early Flying Nun Records act); resumed prolific solo work in the mid‑2010s, including RMHQ and Suffuse.

Four reviews trace Roy Montgomery’s immersive guitar worlds: nature-swept instrumentals, rain-soaked drones, and existential journeys. Scenes From The South Island paints NZ vistas; Temple IV processes loss with meditative intensity. And Now the Rain... is hailed as psychedelic mastery; The Allegory of Hearing fuses ambient expanses with charged psychedelia. Overall sentiment: admiring, reflective, and enthusiastic.

Notable Quotes

❝ “Scenes From the South Island” was the first album (instrumental) of his solo career and it is a true tribute and declaration of love to the southern islands of his homeland: New Zealand.
❝ …and then, suddenly, she arrives. Death.
❝ A masterpiece of psychedelia
❝ Roy Montgomery is a prominent figure in the psychedelic, ambient, and space rock of the 1990s, one of the most interesting revelations from New Zealand in the realm of music straddling the popular and avant-garde, along with the Dead C.
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