Ivory Weeds in the Moniker of solo musician John Chriest. Growing up in the forests of western PA instilled him with a love for the ethereal and raw. After moving to Pittsburgh his sound adapted a bit to his growing version of the world. He still preferred to record and mix and master everything on his own. He built two chilled out albums with a large focus on lyrics and story telling. After a good hiatus, Ivory Weeds is back with, "Paris and Other Dreams". The EP is a sonic dive into the swirling feelings and projections we call romantics and how they color our view of the world. The album starts with an undulating guitar intro, that begins a drone that runs through the rest of the album as a sort of soft-backbone. Each song after that floats along on top of that drone. "Paris", the almost title track, begins the story of illusions of saviors and the loss of someone to save and be saved by. The story is sobered a bit after that with "Time Apart", where the narrative starts to turn inwards to see how those illusions affected reality, but then completely dissolves again into a dreamy ocean with a siren speaking from a distant shore, "Did I tell you, always" in the final song, "13". A new album is also in the works with the same intent, to show how our stories color our version of the world, and to dissect them to see which parts belong to us and which parts were put there as a piece of someone else's story of us.