Hash Jar Tempo

Hash Jar Tempo

Under Glass

Drunken Fish

***Hash Jar Tempo is the rather descriptive moniker assigned to a meeting between Philadelphia freak flag freedom fighters Bardo Pond and New Zealand's six string vagabond Roy Montgomery. Their second album together, Under Glass is the long wished-for follow-up to their first meeting in March of '95, documented on the Well Oiled CD.  Montgomery and Bardo Pond met again during a whirlwind visit to San Francisco in the spring of '98 to perform at the widely publicized Terrastock II music fest, where the sequel plan was hatched. Off to the east coast the HTJ did perambulate, where, in Bardo's newly christened in-house eight-track studio, great slabs of guitar and keyboard drift were churned, bass grooves were deepended and staggered rhythms were topped with a kiss of flute and quiet mumble. The fog quickly lifted, plane schedules were met and respective lives were resumed. End result: 56 minutes at five miles per hour. Absolutely massive.

Hash Jar Tempo

Well Oiled

Drunken Fish

Hash Jar Tempo is the rather descriptive moniker assigned to the limited partnership of Philadelphia freak flag freedom fighters Bardo Pond and New Zealand’s six string vagabond Roy Montgomery. Well Oiled is a document of their March ’95 collaboration, the first of two meetings. Together, Montgomery and Bardo Pond create great slabs of guitar, tectonic keyboard drift, deep bass grooves and staggered rhythms. Absolutely massive.   “Consider for a moment the beauty of a lava flow - it’s a riot of ceaselessly changing colors in inexorable motion. Hash Jar Tempo’s music is a lot like that; it flashes with momentarily glimpsed hues and persistently mutating textures that flow with implacable force and radiate an immolating heat.” —Bill Meyer, Inkblot Magazine