Meantime, a clip from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtzPZ8RBz58
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 November 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Some Pin Group film footage just up on Youtube. Filmed on 16mm by Ronnie Van Hout it shows us running through Ambivalence and Coat in practice room and gives a reasonably good idea of our dynamic and entertaining stage show. The first two and a half minutes feature a Christchurch poet called Desmond Brice who penned some of the Pin Group's lyrics including the above. Film closes with some flip remarks about Pin Group from local painter Marty Whitworth. Gives you some sense of how droll it was to live in ths city in the early 1980s.
― Roy Montgomery, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad to hear the handle is cranking a bit. I've been wondering what you've been up to the last 5 years or so.
Incidental moment of fandom: Seeing Roy do his thing at the Cooler sometime 'round '94/5 and getting back to my Berkshire home in the middle of the night, stealing my roommate's guitar and having a go at it for the first time. Not nearly as good, but quite thrilling.
― bagelche, Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
New album new album new album...
debut of a new project featuring guitarist Roy Montgomery and sonic warlock Nick Guy. the geological allusions in the group's name are apt, and the results are at once familiar and surprising, wedding Roy's melodies and riffs with Nick's rumbling bass frequencies, shuddering beats, textural drones, and finely crafted sonics.released may 2011.
(there's a soundcloud sample at the link)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
but may has already passed? is it available somewhere?
― keythhtyek, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
not in NZ; they're coming up on Christmas there
― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
looks to be available to order at that link
― andrew m., Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
sounds really good
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
Aquarius Records has it also (just ordered)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
bump to say there's a Pin Group soundboard recording from 1981 up on D1mead0zen right now.
― sleeve, Monday, 27 February 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
wow, sleeve--thank you!!
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
low rider!
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
I heard a rumor of an anthology of Roy's work, anyone know anything? I wonder what'd be on it...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
there is a 2-CD rarities/outtakes/singles comp which i lost and now cannot find again.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmm, you mean this one, "Inroads"? http://www.discogs.com/Roy-Montgomery-Inroads-New-And-Collected-Works/release/903736
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 27 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
aha
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Rebis Recordings has both the Inroads 2 CD comp and the Torlesse Super Group CD... the Inroads is on sale for $12, too.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
woot! Pin Group Retrospective reissued on Flying Nun! vinyl and cd! live tracks!
http://exclaim.ca/News/flying_nun_revisits_first-ever_signing_pin_group
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
Roy Montgomery sure sounds good in Virginia this time of year, and this song rules so hard. Need to own a copy of this record:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49s1Sv1Bo0&feature=related
― grandavis, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
GREAT new interview just posted.
http://www.secretdecoder.net/features/2013/05/08/i-would-not-describe-myself-as-a-musician-an-interview-with-roy-montgomery/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
Thanks doesnt cover it, Ned
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
"ill at home" is the scariest song i have ever heard, and i have heard some scary songs
also <3 this guy on the bummers of teaching Administration, the trend toward corporatization, and the traumas of failing students are the lows.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
the second Dissolve album, Third Album from the Sun has been sounding really good to me lately
― my autocorrect is in Spanish right now (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
REQUEST:
recordings that either are or sound like Roy Montgomery (partic his solo stuff), but also have human/s playing drums and or a live percussion element.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Some of the moodier/darker Durutti Column stuff, like the songs on Another Setting?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Note - I have heard Hash Jar Tempo but those albums were improvisations, right? They are more out there/noodly than what I'm looking for. (I like them but that's not the sound I'm after)
― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
maybe?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1rF3-gk21Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0OjY3UXiLk
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
have not heard that durutti column, will look into
i listened to most of the first lanterna song and i liked it ok but the song itself is more traditionally rock with the key changes and whatnot -- i think what i'm looking for is a more...textural sound? i don't know how to describe it, pls bear with me.
the second lanterna song is so worth waiting SIX MINUTES for the drums to start -- the best part about it is that it never turns into one of the big bombastic songs like it totally could. love this song! i guess i can look it up but if there is anything essential i need to know about them (they are 12, this album is from 1966, whatever) tell me!
― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
i was a big fan of their first lp, way back in '95. they are def. more 'traditional' than RoyMont. the main guy Henry Frayne was also in The Moon Seven Times, and Area before that (both kinda proto-Cocteau Twins-ish?). i think maybe the Lanterna lps get more 'ambient'? i don't know, though--i just went to the Youtubes and found the two closest to Roy Mont. and warning, there were a few that veered more into mannered bombast. There's also Scenic, Bruce Licher's post-Savage Republic outfit, big on the cinematic desert landscapes. and i assume you already know about early Felt?
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
there's also Land Observations:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPF7BwtpXZ8
no drums, though--but also no bombast :)
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
v good info, thank you. also i assume you already know about early Felt? YES, I have been known to listen to early Felt over and over and over and over.
one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHQ2s4NQcE
i guess i want hypnotizing vs emotionally bombastic
― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
why didn't that show up? anyway it was the optimist and the poet.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Does Henry Frayne still live in Champaign?!Wiki says he retired from UIUC, but he's not even 50.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
i lost touch w/ him years ago, unfortunately.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
ooh i like land observations, but i specifically am looking for stuff with drums
if there's not much of it, that's fine too. i don't even know where else to ask this question, and i very much appreciate the suggestions! i listened to sands (the whole album) yesterday while i was walking and liked most of it. i wish the drums were a little more spare sometimes, but who cares.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
Backing up a bit -- Henry Frayne is on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/henry.d.frayne
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
and he still lives in Champaign, apparently!
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
cool, thanks ned!
La Lech, here's another recommendation--Cathode was an obscure Boston band; their Steve Fisk-mixed 'Sleeping + Breathing' lp from 1999 might float your boat. the whole lp is posted on youtube, in separate tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWknAcd6V18&list=PL98929511BB0B8060
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
ahhh sounds like 1999. people weren't afraid to be slow and languid back then. that's not exactly what i was looking for, but i like it.
i hope henry frayne has a google alert for his name and finds this thread.
another question -- how does one describe the guitar sound/song structure in this RM song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DAVNZMx-Lk
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 September 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
can't stop listening to this song again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_CMSzseAtQ
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
I often listen to Winding it Out in the High Country from Scenes from the South Island and imagine I have stolen a boat and am sailing it straight into a hurricane.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Scenes from the South Island is easily one of the best albums of the 90s. Hearty thanks to Ned (& Piero Scaruffi) for getting my attention
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 25 April 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
I feel like I need to give his latter albums more attention... And Now the Rain, Allegory of Hearing, and Silver Wheel of Prayer. I need other people to point out the awesome songs and then somehow they become awesome to me too.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
That's a great album, and I really like it 100% for real, but man this song is something else! It's so overwhelmingly obscenely creepy and totally way too long but he's like "i'm gonna play this creepy song as long as i want, fu who can't take it" and i really admire that attitude (as long as I like the music, which i do in this case).
questions - 1) is he aping some style i'm not familiar with? if yes, who? specifically.
if no,2) why is this song not more famous?
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
the newest one (...Hey! Badfinger) has yet to click with me.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 25 April 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
i haven't heard it -- what's it like?
also i didn't mean creepy like crepey -- i meant sinister/spooky/creepy (which is not the same thing)
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
parts of temple IV are very sinister/oppressive!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
i haven't heard that onei'll check it out!
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it just comes to mind because he's covered them, but Ill at Home sounds like it could be a 154 era Wire song. The Graham Lewis stuff.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
wow, that's an interesting observation! I gotta re-listen with that in mind.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link