Hash Jar Tempo is a collaborative musical project between the members of Philadelphia-based psychedelic

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 band Bardo Pond

Bardo Pond

Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons , John Gibbons , Isobel Sollenberger , Clint Takeda , Jason Kourkonis , and Aaron Igler...

 and Experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 guitarist and composer Roy Montgomery

Roy Montgomery

Roy Montgomery is a guitarist from Christchurch, New Zealand.He has played in several New Zealand bands, including Compulsory Fun, Murder Strikes Pink, The Pin Group, The Shallows, Dadamah and Dissolve...

. The band was founded in March 1995 and have released two albums, Well Oiled

Well Oiled (Hash Jar Tempo album)

-Personnel:Hash Jar Tempo*Joe Culver – drums*John Gibbons – guitar*Michael Gibbons – guitar*Roy Montgomery – guitar*Clint Takeda – bass guitarAdditional musicians and production*Drugfish – art direction...

and Under Glass, and have never toured.

History

In 1995, Roy Montogomy was introduced to the members of Bardo Pond, who were already familiar with Roy's Dadamah

Dadamah

Dadamah were a band from New Zealand, active during the early 1990s. The band consisted of Kim Pieters, Peter Stapleton, Roy Montgomery, and Janine Stagg. After the band broke up, the members went on to numerous other music projects, including Flies Inside The Sun, Doramaar, Dissolve, and...

 project. On March 26, members of Bardo Pond and Roy Montgomery entered the studio and recorded a completely improvised session. The improvised pieces from that session would be released two years later as Well Oiled

Well Oiled (Hash Jar Tempo album)

-Personnel:Hash Jar Tempo*Joe Culver – drums*John Gibbons – guitar*Michael Gibbons – guitar*Roy Montgomery – guitar*Clint Takeda – bass guitarAdditional musicians and production*Drugfish – art direction...

under the name Hash Jar Tempo, which is a pun on the band Ash Ra Tempel

Ash Ra Tempel

Ash Ra Tempel are a German krautrock group of the 1970s, and are an example of cosmic or space rock.-History:The group was originally founded by guitarist Manuel Göttsching, keyboardist/drummer Klaus Schulze, and bassist Hartmut Enke in 1971. All three founding members had previously played...

. When Montgomery returned to the states, the band reunited and recorded another improvised session on April 27, 1998, this time with Isobel's participation. The band released the music on their final album Under Glass the following year.

Discography

Date	Title	Label
1997	Well Oiled Well Oiled (Hash Jar Tempo album) -Personnel:Hash Jar Tempo*Joe Culver – drums*John Gibbons – guitar*Michael Gibbons – guitar*Roy Montgomery – guitar*Clint Takeda – bass guitarAdditional musicians and production*Drugfish – art direction...	Drunken Fish
1999	Under Glass	Drunken Fish