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. This album is inspired by a visit to the Tikal in the Northern Guatemalan rain forest. Read more on Last.fm.
Experimental guitarist Roy Montgomery was born in London but raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, forming his first band, the teen garage combo the Psychedeliks, in 1971. After serving out the remainder of the decade in similarly obscure outfits including Compulsory Fun and Murder Strikes Pink, he co-founded the seminal Kiwi post-punk trio the Pin Group in late 1980; their debut single, "Ambivalence," was also the first record ever issued on the now-legendary indie label Flying Nun Read more on Last.fm
