This British CD is a long overdue acknowledgment of the work of EMI's most successful skiffle group -- it's more manageable financially for most potential fans than Bear Family's four-CD set of the band's complete output, and it's got some superb music. Indeed, this CD may demonstrate, perhaps better than even skiffle king Lonnie Donegan's work, the full range of the music. The Vipers' most visible talent was Wally Whyton, but all of the group members are featured vocally on this 21-so...   [ read more ]

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Seattle's Jesy Fortino has played coffee shops, on mismatched bills with by-the-book folkies, and fielded far too many questions that address her gender rather than her music. Fortunately for us these things all fall away when she plays. Inhabiting the space carved out by minimal guitar, gentle textures, and stark, immediate vocals, Tiny Vipers' music evokes the contrast and quiet, empty beauty of a grey northwest landscape. A uniquely striking record that's as fully realized as it is spare and beautiful.

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Tiny Vipers is Jesy Fortino, a musician living in Seattle. Since her last and first album, 2007's Hands Across The Void, she's toured Europe and the US, transfixing audiences into a solemn hush. Transcending the mere folk tag, Fortino draws from disparate inspirational sources, from the avant-garde or country musician Townes Van Zandt. Life On Earth gives musical life to the themes that inhabit her lyricisms: love found and lost, places come and gone. The future annihilates the past, consuming it like a fi...   [ read more ]

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