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American Prayer

by Tiny Vipers

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Tormentor 04:42

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Jesy Fortino aka Tiny Vipers shares some long-awaited new material via LEITER. The ‘American Prayer’ EP represents her first material since 2017’s ‘Laughter’ (released by Ba-Da-Bing!) and contains three brand new tracks: ‘American Prayer’, ‘The Elevator’, and ‘Tormentor’.

‘American Prayer’ marks a return to the brittle, poignant style with which Tiny Vipers initially made her name in the early years of the century. Intense, intimate and deeply moving, the songs feature nothing more than Fortino’s exquisitely delicate vocal and her acoustic guitar, recorded over three days with her friend Joel Cuplin as studio engineer at another friend Ken Jarvey’s studio in Seattle, the city where she continues to live. They are, she says, “lyrically driven, sort of like storytelling, something you could play with just a guitar while singing around a camp fire. I quit my job after the pandemic started lifting and took time to reflect on my life and reassess what’s important to me. These songs are a result of that process of reflection.”

Clearly it was a time of intense contemplation, though Fortino insists, “I’d prefer not to unpack what the songs mean to me.” Nonetheless, despite – or perhaps due to – their cryptic nature and sparse arrangements, each of these affecting exercises in introspective reminiscence demands close, repeated investigation, with the subtle twists of her intricate guitar playing as intriguing as the elusive implications of her words.

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released December 2, 2022

Written & performed by Jesy Fortino
Recording Engineer: Joel Cuplin
Mixing & Mastering: Rafael Anton Irisarri

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