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IVORY

Ivory is one of those fascinating California rock bands that seemed to spontaneously materialize in the heady psychedelic days of late '60s, making a brief but outstanding impression before just as quickly fading along with its music into the headless 1970s, never to be heard from again. Most such artists rarely merit rescuing from obscurity, but Ivory is one of the few that deserves

"IVORY"

1968     LP    TETRAGRAMMON RECORDS     STEREO T-104

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL PRESSING    PROMOTIONAL COPY

SINGLE SLEEVE

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: TETRAGRAMMON - WHITE PROMO LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: T-104  

Catalog on labels: T-104 (7713) / T-104 (7714)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 7713-A Re2 D-1   ?12331

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 7713-B Re2 D-1   ?12331-X

   Other / Runout (on both sides, Stamped & circled): MR

On labels: PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE

Executive Producer: Al Schmitt

Producer: Les Brown, Jr.

Recording Engineer: Hank Cicalo

rim text reads "© 1968 Tetragrammaton Records (A Division.......Cosby Corporation) Made in U.S.A."

On back cover: Recorded at Amigo Recording Studio

All Selections Published by Ivory Music - ASCAP

©1968      Printed in U.S.A.

tracklisting

Side A: SILVER RAINS - FREE AND EASY - LOSIN' HOLD - LAUGH - A THOUGHT

Side B: I, OF THE GARDEN, ALL IN MY MIND - A LIGHT

LAST LAUGH - GREY NOVEMBER

  grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) (please, see pictures and read above description)

Ivory may be the finest Jefferson Airplane album not by Jefferson Airplane themselves. It is not quite a masterpiece on a par with Surrealistic Pillow, but it easily holds its own with many of the second-tier albums from the band's prime era. Ivory -- and producers Les Brown Jr. and Al Schmitt -- definitely knew how to get the most out of their relatively minimalistic setup. It would be difficult to over-praise the abilities of Kenny Thomure and Mike McCauley, who exhibit a near-telepathic partnership on their instruments, while Chris Christman's full-bodied vocals are room-filling powerful -- all that plus a really first-rate studio drummer. The songs are mostly strong. 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 funk 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. There are a couple of dull spots during the album's second half, and 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. Recommended...(AllMusic)