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Ivory Weeds

Evans City, Pennsylvania, United States | SELF

Evans City, Pennsylvania, United States | SELF
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"Ivory Weeds"

Beautiful, strange and challenging. For his solo project Ivory Weeds, John Chriest's fingerpicked acoustic guitar and appealing voice are deepened with ambient textures, occasional thin programmed beats and cavernous reverb. Chriest resists the urge to fuss and tweak musical elements he introduces; for example, "I couldn't be ..." opens with a distorted drum machine that slowly crescendos and continues unvaried for six minutes, while washed-out drones and falsetto notes build around it, then reverse on themselves in a Stone Roses pileup.

While at times reminiscent of Bill Baird's lovely lo-fi pop ("Masks" and "Flowers" are especially good), textures take precedence over Native's textual and structural elements. Native is a bit long, at 14 tracks, but an imaginative trip to somewhere beyond the hellhole ratrace.

-- Aaron Jentzen - Pittsburgh City Paper


Discography

Dreams... It Seems, and Native

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I am (as of right now, but not for long) a solo artist. I grew up in the forest of Pennsylvania. Bright Eyes was my largest influence when I was young, until I met my friend Dean Cercone (fellow musician). We would jam together with all of our friends in his shed. This marked a quick increase in my skills on the guitar, and a difference of style. When I started to buy more effects for my guitar my music progressed from all acoustic to a more ambient feel but still acoustic: from "Dreams... It Seems" to "Native".