... Peter Ivers Band with Yolande Ravan "Knight Of The Blue Communion / Songs By Peter Ivers And Tim Mayer" LP on 1969 US issue Epic Records # BN 26500 Stereo ... The jacket has some minor storage and ring wear, and a promotional ink stamp on the back, and the start of a seam split on the bottom right corner, and is overall in very good condition (no cuts or slices) ... The vinyl looks barely played, and is in near mint condition ... If requesting shipment out of the USA, please read all the postage options listed in this ad ...
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Born in Boston in September 1946, Peter Ivers was a multi-talented artist: singer/songwriter, yoga master, actor, theater writer, experimental video director... A Harvard graduate, he began playing in the late sixties with the Street Choir which was part of "Boston's new sound". His first album Knight Of The Blue Communion is one of the strangest records of this period and can only be compared to the Untied States Of America for mixing classical and rock instruments with electronic sounds (provided by an "intermodulator"), free jazz and classical singing (Yolande Bavan was a opera singer). The lyrics written by Timothy Mayer (future Associate Director of the American National Theater) have a strong religious content (Gentle Jesus, Confession, Lord God Love, Dark Illumination...) and the result is really "something else". The LP was produced by Sandy Linzer ... Rare first LP by strange avant blues psych figure who was later murdered. In fact one of the scarcest USA Epic label LPs of the late '60s era and the weirdest. Out there bluesy moves, psychjazz, edgy strange vocals...dark & disturbed. Titles like "Water Curtain", "Dark Illumination", "Showroom Model", etc. An avant-garde pioneering classic ...A cult waiting to happen, musician and performance artist Peter Ivers was born in Boston in 1946. During the mid-1960s, while studying political science at Harvard University, he launched his performing career playing harmonica in the local band Beacon Street Union , one of a number of Boston-area psychedelic bands influenced by San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene. Signing to MGM, Beacon Street Union issued the little-noticed LP The Clown Died in Mervin Gardens before dissolving; Ivers then surfaced as a member of the Street Choir before mounting a solo career. He signed to Epic in 1969 to issue Knight of the Blue Communion certainly one of the strangest major label releases of its time-combining rock with classical instrumentation (oboe, contrabass and bassoon) and electronics (an intermodulator), the disc also featured opera singer Yolande Bevan, profoundly spiritual lyrical themes and, to top it all off, Ivers own piercingly nasal vocals. Suffice to say it was not a hit, and a second Epic LP, Take It Out on Me, was completed but shelved by the label; only a single, âAin't That Peculiar," ever saw commercial release. Signing to Warner Brothers in 1974, Ivers and his co-producer, free-jazz bassist Buell Neidlinger, delivered Terminal Love, which at times suggests the work of Captain Beefheart--indeed, Magic Band/Frank Zappa collaborator Eliot Ingber appears on several tracks. A self-titled album for Warners followed in 1976, and a year later Ivers earned arguably his most enduring fame, writing and recording âIn Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)" for David Lynch's classic film Eraserhead. (The song was later covered by another Boston act of some note, the Pixies.) A 1980 single, âLove Theme from Filmex," closed out his recording career, and during the early 1980s, Ivers hosted New Wave Theatre, broadcast on the fledgling USA cable network as part of their Friday evening Night Flight anthology-the series provided the first (and in some cases only) national TV exposure for Los Angeles area bands like the Blasters, Dead Kennedys and dozens of others. With his outrageous wardrobe, philosophical interview questions and rapid-fire social commentaries, Ivers was a most unconventional host, and many of the artists featured on the show made their distaste for him painfully clear. Sadly, when Ivers was bludgeoned to death in his L.A. apartment in 1983, many suspected the murderer was a member of the local punk scene. Ivers' killer was never found, but in his memory, Harvard University initiated the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Program.
Titles : Cat Scratch Fever, Water Curtain, Dark Illumination, Confession, Travelling Lightly, Showroom Model, Tobacco, Lord God Love, Knight Of The Blue Communion, Gentle Jesus ...
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