On The Road Again Pictures is thrilled to announce the world premiere of Take My Word by TEss. 
Lyrics & music by Tess Amodeo-Vickery, arranged in loving collaboration with musicians and Decomposer Studio
Tess Amodeo-Vickery: voice
Andrea Filippucci: guitar
Ambra Chiara Michelangeli: viola
Jacopo Mosesso: cello
Andrea Macko: violin
Album artwork: Matteo Casilli (photo) & Marianna Rossi (graphic)

Take My Word

Music & lyrics by Tess Amodeo-Vickery
Vocals & classical guitar: Tess Amodeo-Vickery
Violin: Andrea Macko
Viola: Ambra Chiara Michelangeli
Cello: Jacopo Mosesso
Sound Engineers: Agostino Maria Ticino, Carlo Marchionni
Mix: Daniel Lynas
Master: JLM 

I traveled the world to find my musicians and my sound. The musicians I found in Rome, Italy (members of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra and an electronic music producer from Le Marche with a funny accent). The sound I found in the spaces in between; plane rides from San Francisco to LA, the silence alone at 3AM in my apartment in Rome, cold nights with my feet in the waters of the Adriatic. I like to believe I can open my heart and let melodies I hum touch souls I've lost on the other side of the world. I call that "soul whispering".

Sincere Love

Soul Whisperer

Music & lyrics by Tess Amodeo-Vickery
Vocals: Tess Amodeo-Vickery
Viola: Ambra Chiara Michelangeli
Harp: Micol Picchioni
Sound Engineer: Francesco Ornielli

MOIRE-MOIRAI

Vocals: Tess Amodeo-Vickery, Guitar: Andrea Filippucci
Artwork: Woodblock print by Claire Catenaccio & Henry Walters
Strange Fruit: Poem by Abel Meeropol, Originally performed by Billie Holiday

Lyrics:
Southern trees bear a strange fruit, 
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, 
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, 
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south, 
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, 
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, 
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, 
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, 
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, 
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Strange Fruit

First studio recording! Engineer: Nicola d'Amati (Nuove Officine Zero); Arrangement: Tess & the Yellow Cabbies; Musicians: Tess Amodeo-Vickery (voice), Andrea Filippucci (guitar), Francesco De Palma (bass), Dario Panza (drums), Fabrizio Boffi (piano). 

When I Think About You

Songs of love-lost, truths learned and the beautiful folly of everyday life. With a sweet, high voice like Joni Mitchell’s, the American-born, Italy-based singer-songwriter uses humanism, romanticism and poetry to transport her audience to a time when music was protagonist. Fresh, honest lyrics and electro-orchestral arrangements keep TEss relevant and avant-garde. Her ethereal voice and unique way of “feeling” her classical guitar compels listeners to enter her disarmingly charming, slightly whimsical and decidedly lovely world. 

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