Camera Melancholia is a double album of instrumental music inspired by and dedicated to Kerry McCarthy (1967-2021) who was Roy's partner for twenty years and the mother of two children they had together. She died from cancer in early 2021 after first being diagnosed in 2014. Kerry was a professional curator in the area of pictorial collections, particularly around photographic material, and her PhD used the work of Roland Barthes to theorise about the legacies of images associated with Antarctic exploration in the early 20th Century. The cover art for Camera Melancholia was provided by Ronnie van Hout, an Aotearoa New Zealand artist associated with the earliest graphic design work for Flying Nun Records. Ronnie was also a very close and longstanding friend of Kerry. The gatefold album includes the text for ten poems written for and about Kerry.

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Roy montgomery: 40th Anniversary 2021 LP Series

Island of Lost Souls

1. Cowboy Mouth (For Sam Shepard)

2. Soundcheck (For Adrian Borland)

3. Unhalfmuted (For Peter Principle)

4. The Electric Children of Hildegard von Bingen (For Florian Fricke)

That Best Forgotten Work

1. Fluke 1

2. Pranged

3. Superstar

4. Sylvia and Schopenhauer

5. Fluke 2

6. Thermal

7. Pretty

8. Meet Me

9. Song to the Siren

Rhymes of Chance

1. Chance 1

2. Chance 2

3. Chance 3

4. Chance 4

5. Chance 5

6. In the Echo Chamber of My Heart (For Vini Reilly)

7. Das Wartezimmer (For Florian Schneider)

8. Aspiratory (For Mark Hollis)

Audiotherapy

1. Blue Poem (For Jack Rose)

2. Small Informal Mass

3. Rocky Road (For Peter Stapleton)

4. Temple Vu

5. Loop Spools

6. 19 Layered Elliptical Omnichord Patterns to Recalibrate a Damaged Heart

7. Christchurch in the Age of Tony Peake