Scenes From the South Island

by Roy Montgomery

Scenes From the South Island cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 September 1995
  • Label: Drunken Fish
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Length: 51:51
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The immensely influential New Zealand guitarist crafted a profoundly beautiful, deeply hypnotic solo masterpiece following his work with Dadamah and The Pin Group. Relying entirely on heavily layered, effects-drenched electric guitars, the completely instrumental recording evokes the incredibly stark, isolating landscapes of his native country. The deeply meditative, slow-moving soundscapes laid a crucial foundational blueprint for the emerging American ambient-rock movement.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, atmospheric, droning, minimal, slow, guitars, ambient, nature

Tracklist

  1. Along The Main Divide (3:26)
  2. Clear Night, Port Hills (4:01)
  3. Twilight Conversation (10:04)
  4. Rainshadow Near Christchurch (5:06)
  5. Rain Receding (4:43)
  6. Escape Velocity (4:59)
  7. Downtown To Vesuvio (1:47)
  8. The Road To Diamond Harbour (1:23)
  9. Winding It Out In The High Country (4:56)
  10. Nor' Wester Head-On (4:25)
  11. The Last Kakapo Dreams Of Flying (7:01)

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