And Now the Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It

by Roy Montgomery

And Now the Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 April 1998
  • Label: Drunken Fish
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Length: 53:56
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed largely through the intricate layering of multiple guitar tracks, the New Zealand composer's solo effort is a deeply cinematic, instrumental journey. The patient, delay-soaked compositions blur the lines between avant-garde minimalism and space rock, creating a deeply introspective, lonely atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: minimalistic, atmospheric, instrumental, droning, delicate

Tracklist

  1. No She Never Made It To Japan (1:01)
  2. In Our Own Time (5:35)
  3. The Opportunity Passed In Less Than A Minute (0:59)
  4. Down From That Hill And Up To The Pond (6:31)
  5. And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It (1:31)
  6. Kafka Was Correct (5:22)
  7. Catherine At Aldeburgh (3:24)
  8. Entertaining Mr. Jones (4:57)
  9. The Small Sleeper (For Jack) (2:58)
  10. Algeria 7 (5:07)
  11. A Little Soundtrack (For Epic) (2:46)
  12. Ill At Home (11:15)
  13. In Another Time (2:25)

Credits

  • Roy Montgomery - primary artist, electric guitar [marinucci telecaster thinline copy], effects [alesis quadraverb gt], e-bow, piano [robert meissner (leipzig) piano], mixed by
  • Jessica Meyer - artwork [art], layout

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