Monte Vallier

American bassist and composer from the Bay Area; producer, recording and mixing engineer at [l=Ruminator Audio]. After a period with the group Half Church in London, he returned to the USA, where self-produced several albums for the band Swell, developing his career as a sound engineer and pursuing commercial composition, film soundtracks and corporate music. He formed Jet Black Crayon with Tommy Guerrero, and eventually opened his own studio in San Francisco.