RARE 1968 Orig ? IVORY ? Hard FUZZ West Coast PSYCH Fem

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    1968 RARE ORIGINAL WEST COAST SOUND FUZZZ PSYCH

               IVORY

             ...USA - TETRAGRAMMATION RECORDS - T - 104   stereo

Sought after 1968 ORIGINAL first pressing of killer WEst Coast fuzz psych grooves with a decidedly Jefferson Airplane acidrock sound...The only album by IVORY is hunted for by collectors around the globe for good reason....

The virtually unknown band Ivory modeled their music after the sounds of Jefferson Airplane. In fact, it was produced in 1968 by the Airplane's genius himself, Mr. Al Schmitt. The group features the beautiful female vocals of Chris Christman, and fuzzed-out guitars highlighting the often thrilling affairs...

Ivory may be the finest Jefferson Airplane album not by Jefferson Airplane themselves. It is quite the masterpiece not on a par with Surrealistic Pillow, but as strong as other peak Airplane albums and easily holds its own with many band's from the prime 60's era.

Ivory -- and producers Les Brown Jr. and Al Schmitt -- definitely knew how to get the most out of their relatively minimalistic but talented longhair crew. It would be difficult to over-praise the abilities of Ivory members Kenny Thomure and Mike McCauley, who exhibit a near-telepathic partnership on their organ & fuzz guitar instruments, while Chris Christman's full-bodied vocals are room-filling powerful -- all that plus a really first-rate studio drummer. The songs are strong and lyrically Ivory mostly dispensed with topics of amorousness, instead concentrating on far-out, cosmic concerns ranging from the stars to such nebulous ideas of the inner dimension as "infinite realms of peace" to more era-endemic principles like freedom. The opening "Silver Rains" is perhaps the album's most potent track. A bit ominous and spooky, a bit chaotic and wired, it displays just how dynamic and forceful Christman's vocals could be. Nearly as stellar is the awesome garage psych of "A Thought," complete with guitars so fuzzy you could get a buzz off them and intertwining organ and piano lines that lead into a brief but scintillating rave-up with some of the boogie grooved looseness of Traffic. The album's most beautiful moment, however, is the tender "Losin' Hold," a song with more than a slight resemblance to the give-and-take duets perfected by Marty Balin and Grace Slick. It is nearly up to the standards of the classic ballads on Surrealistic Pillow. Ivory wasn't really able to develop a distinctive personality of their own -- one can only bemoan the band's early demise and speculate how they might have gone on to develop -- but borrowed sound and style or not, the band's sole album stands up as menacing, tough-nosed psychedelia loaded with flashes of genuine brilliance...hard to get, here's a clean original from 42 years ago with no need to upgrade... 

CONDITION: The cover is really hard to find clean, being nearly all black, here, a survivor with a solid stiff sharpness, just very light shelf wear starting (just a little!) ...the seams are strong, no bends, no writing and clean back cover....

The vinyl is super clean M- with all smooth clear grooves on both sides...the silver labels are both clean.... plays fantastic

                keeper copy!

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