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Post by pb on Mar 27, 2009 23:32:33 GMT -5
Don't want to be spamming this thread, but I really enjoyed this video interview, and figured users following this thread might too - It is a series of "what if" questions, which lead to discussions of canibalism, burning pianos, and catlike seduction, to name a few. Plus the interviewer is kind of adorable. www.ifc.com/videos/sxsw-2009-tori-amos-is-a-lioness.phpAlso, I get the Valley of the dolls'esque, dead face look on the album cover, and can look past the skin colored top and iguana, but here you do not even look like you: you look lovely in this new photo shoot Tori: Please stick with the latter.
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Post by Modern Method. on Mar 28, 2009 5:07:25 GMT -5
Yeah, I watched the 'What If' interview two days ago. Very funny, yet, informative! Thanks for the new photos.
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Post by stef19 on Apr 3, 2009 16:30:24 GMT -5
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Post by stef19 on Apr 3, 2009 16:35:37 GMT -5
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Post by Modern Method. on Apr 12, 2009 4:51:53 GMT -5
New Sin, Old Songs: 'I Don't Agree that Music Is Disposable' Rolling Stone.com
At her recent standing-room-only performance at this year's South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Tori Amos premiered songs from her tenth studio album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, due May 19th. It's her first studio LP since 2007's American Doll Posse, and the record finds the singer-pianist exploring familiar territory: power in all its guises, be it sexual, monetary or political. 'Before, we used to think power was if you had a job and you had money,' she says. 'And if that's our definition of success, then very few people have it - the money part anyway. So [I'm] redefining what it means, because power is also an aphrodisiac.'
Working once again with her husband, engineer Mark Hawley, Amos says that the album's production is key. 'Sound is an instrument,' she explains. 'It's not just, 'Let's jam.' ' But visuals were central to the record, too: the LP will be accompanied by a series of 16 'visualettes,' short films that Amos largely funded herself that were directed by Christian Lamb. The footage, captured during Amos' world tour in support for American Doll Posse, actually inspired the songs that would become Abnormally Attracted to Sin.
'I'd see montages of our life on the road,' she says, 'and I'd shut off the music, realizing this music is not the underscoring for what I'm seeing at all.' Near the end of the tour, she started writing the songs because she knew that Lamb's films 'needed another story. I said, I wanna give people something that says my favorite thing: If it's too loud, turn it up. I wanna give people creative worlds to walk into so that they are getting a sensory overload. You give people treasures, not 'How can I cut all the costs' - Though the project took money out of her pocket, it was important to Amos, she says, because 'people are just putting out the worst. And I don't agree that music is disposable.'
Her own music certainly has staying power - especially for the die-hard fans that pack her shows hoping to hear early cuts. 'I'm a different person,' she says, 'but the songs, the faces, the life experience or the fantasies that you assign to certain songs in order for you to perform them, and to let them live in you, change. So when I perform them now, if I do 'Winter' or 'Silent All These Years' [both from Amos' platinum debut, Little Earthquakes], I've surprised myself what stories, what photographs come up in my mind. And that's why I do insert the catalog, because I don't see it as my past, I see the songs as timeless for me. It's just my perception that needs to change.'
Amos' new music will be her first to come out on Universal Music. She landed the new deal after stumbling into a label rep while she was at lunch - with other, smaller distribution companies. The rep passed her table, said hello and took a phone call from 'my boss' boss,' Amos recalls: Doug Morris, the Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group. As Amos was finishing lunch, she noticed the woman still outside the restaurant, pacing and talking on her cell. 'And in that moment, my life flashed before my eyes,' she says. 'I thought, Doug Morris. He's right there. We haven't talked in 14 years. I miss Doug Morris. We didn't always agree, but he's still passionate about music.
'I put all my mother's training of manners and everything I know to be right and good in the world, and I walked up and I looked at this woman who I'd barely met and interrupted her call, and said, 'Would you send Doug my love'? And she looked at me and said, 'Right now'? I said, 'Now would be good.'
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Post by stef19 on Aug 3, 2009 13:27:25 GMT -5
going to see Tori today in concert! Her latest album was definitely a grower for me but I'm really excited to see her live. I have always heard amazing things about her live performances. Has anyone seen her live? or for tha matter anyone else seeing her this time around?
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 3, 2009 13:32:21 GMT -5
Her live shows are out of this world. She adapts a different setlist to each city that she is in. It would be helpful to be familiar with all her albums as she plays a good bulk of album tracks and then the well known ones like 'Cornflake Girl' and 'Precious Things'.
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Post by stef19 on Aug 4, 2009 11:08:24 GMT -5
yeah she definitely fit the set list to Chicago, it was overcast and gloomy and so was her set list! But I loved it! I'm not sure if my friend did, cause like you said Andy she did play mostly album tracks(which I enjoyed completely),but my friend isn't as familiar with all her stuff and all she really wanted to hear was raspberry swirl and Tori didn't play that one . It was a very melancholy set list to say the least. She only played more upbeat songs in the encore. However, it sure does make me want to see a couple of her shows because I can see how each one you go to is a completely different experience. Even though the songs she played were more mellow, she puts on one hell of a show, and I regret not getting tickets for other performances ("sigh" only if I was rich)
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 23, 2009 6:21:49 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Tori!
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Post by stef19 on Aug 24, 2009 14:34:38 GMT -5
awww I missed it! Happy be-lated Tori!
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Post by Modern Method. on Sept 18, 2009 13:00:14 GMT -5
Tori Amos Announces Midwinter Graces (Universal Republic)
Tori’s First and Highly Anticipated Seasonal Album to be Released November 10th 2009
After nearly two decades writing and recording some of her generation’s most emotionally powerful music, Tori Amos will release her first seasonal album, Midwinter Graces, on November 10 via Universal Republic. A follow up to Tori’s critically acclaimed studio album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Midwinter Graces will find Tori reworking and expanding on classic carols as well as developing some of her very own seasonal tracks.
Midwinter Graces is an album that has been in the making for the past 40 years. Raised in the Baltimore area under the watchful eye of her Methodist minister father, Tori grew up playing holiday carols at Sunday services and Christmas Day celebrations in her father’s church. These were the songs that gave a young Tori her first taste of music, and now almost 40 years later Tori gets her own chance to reimagine classics like “What Child, Nowell” and “Star of Wonder.” Tori will also add her own bittersweet bliss to the season with originally tracks like “Pink and Glitter” and “Our New Year.”
For Midwinter Graces, Amos has again teamed up with long time collaborators Matt Chamberlain on drums, Jon Evans on bass, and Mac Aladdin on guitars. Tori has enlisted the help of a Big Band and an Orchestra with stunning John Philip Shenale arrangements to create Tori’s new seasonal classics.
Midwinter Graces Tracklist: 1. What Child, Nowell 2. Star of Wonder 3. A Silent Night with You 4. Candle: Coventry Carol 5. Holy, Ivy, and Rose 6. Harps of Gold 7. Snow Angel 8. Jeanette, Isabella 9. Pink and Glitter 10. Emmanuel 11. Winter’s Carol 12. Our New Year
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