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Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:24 PM
“Music has always been healing for me, since I was little. I can really be in pain, then listen to or play music, and I feel things… ease. I feel the music play me, so that I become an instrument that it plays.”
A special Tori Calendar in favour of Rainn (the National Network of Rape, Abuse and Incest, co-founded by Tori in 1994) is about to be released. Each month of 2006 will have a special Tori drawing painted by a great artist! You can see these beautiful artworks here:
www.herbleonhard.com/rainn_calendar06.html
The link shown above allows you to download the 12 images that will appear on the calendar. Remember that they are all protected by copyright!
This is the list of the artists who have collaborated to this fabulous calendar:
David Mack (cover artwork)
Chris Moeller
Ken Meyer, Jr.
Stephanie Law
Daren Bader
Charles Vess
Craig Elliott
Justin Cherry
Herb Leonhard
Alan Defibaugh
Socar Myles
Ken Wong
Thom Ang
Rebecca Guay
Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell
The Tori calendar is already available on the RAINN website (www.rainn.org) for 17,50 $, while the suggested price for stores is 16,99 $.
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"FADE TO RED" is the name of Tori's new dvd set, her long awaited video collection, which will be released February 14, 2006. The two discs will include the videos Tori shot from 1991 to 2005 and her commentary for each clip. Videos from "To Venus and back", "Scarlet's Walk" and "The Beekeeper" are also included (although the collection lacks clips such as "Strange Little Girl" from her cover album of 2001 and "Glory of the 80's", from "To Venus and Back" of 1999).
There are bonus contents, too: the Armand van Helden remix of "Professional Widow", a funny clip featuring pictures of all Tori's videos shot from 1991 to 1996, and the beautiful UK version of "Cornflake Girl". The countdown has already begun:-)... just check the tracklists below!!!
DVD 1
1. Past The Mission
2. Crucify
3. Jackie's Strength
4. A Sorta Fairytale
5. Winter
6. Spark
7. Sleeps With Butterflies
8. Cornflake Girl (US version)
9. Hey Jupiter (Dakota version)
10. Silent All These Years
DVD 2
1. Caught a Lite Sneeze
2. 1000 Oceans
3. God
4. Bliss
5. China
6. Raspberry Swirl
7. Talula
8. Sweet The Sting
9. Pretty Good Year
BONUS CLIPS:
Professional Widow (Armand van Helden remix)
Cornflake Girl (UK version) [Modificato da +Raffa+ 07/01/2006 16.26]
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:29 PM
All Tori's six live official bootlegs are now available on www.toriamosbootlegs.com.
If you order the first five bootlegs, you will be gifted of the sixth bootleg plus the hexagonal adhesives featuring the disc covers. You will also receive a special box where to put them... so, what are you waiting for?:-)
There have been rumors about the six disc set being available in stores from December 7, 2005. There's still no confirmation that the disc set is - or is going to be - available here in Italy too, but it should be in the US and I think in some European countries. If you can find it, please post a message to let us know! :Sm27:
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:31 PM
The EP called "Exclusive Session: Tori Amos" is now available on the iTUNES US website. Just click:
phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=53952463&originStoreFron...
At first the cd, also known as "iTUNES SESSIONS", was only available on the U.K. and Germany iTunes on line stores. It features a special recording session Tori made for iTunes on February 21, 2005. Here's the tracklist:
1. Sleeps With Butterflies (live) 4:06
2. The Power Of Orange Knickers (live) 3:46
3, Seaside (live) 4:06
4. Crazy (live) 5:49
I've listened to this live recordings and I can say they're all very intimate, beautiful performances, but Crazy includes an AMAZING improvisation that's likely to paralyse you:-) and make you forget everything else... I know the EP went really really good on the German website... order your copy or listen to some samples you can find on iTunes, toriamos.com and amazon.com!
If you wanna post a comment, just leave a message on our main forum "So sure on something" or open a thread in our English section "On The Other Side of The Galaxy".
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:33 PM
In book stores and libraries you can find Tori's first biography, "Piece by Piece (Portrait of an Artist)", written by herself with music journalist Ann Powers. The book is "a firsthand account of the most intricate and intimate details of Tori’s life as both a private individual and a very public performing musician. In this book we see the pieces that make up - as Tori puts it - “the woman we call Tori” " (http://everythingtori.com/go/home/).
This long awaited and acclaimed biography was released in February 2005, along with her new album "The Beekeeper".
To know everything about this book, just click:
everythingtori.com/go/book/
"EverythingTori" is a very nice website, including a Gallery, News and Tour sections, the complete tracklists of her official live bootlegs, and links for each topic regarding Tori! Just click the link given above next the quote and you'll enter the home page.
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:35 PM
At at the US iTunes Music Store you can now buy a 45-songs Tori's collection.
The compilation is called "iTUNES ESSENTIALS" and it features some of her most beautiful songs ever from 1991 to 2005. It includes rarities, soundtracks and some b-side, too. None of the tracks is new, lots of songs were left behind (for example her praised cover Strange Little Girl, then singles like Carbon, Marianne, Northern Lad, Cloud on my Tongue, Parasol, the soundtrack Siren, and so on...:-), still it's really a huge and interesting collection not only for Ears With Feet, but also for somone who has never listened to her. Here's the tracklist, featuring the source or album name beside every song title:
1. Crucify - "Little Earthquakes"
2. Cornflake Girl - "Under the Pink"
3. A Sorta Fairytale - "Scarlet's Walk"
4. Silent All These Years - "Little Earthquakes"
5. God - "Under the Pink"
6. Caught a Little Sneeze - "Boys for Pele"
7. Precious Things - "Little Earthquakes"
8. Professional Widow (Armand Van Helden's Star Trunk Mix) - "Boys for Pele"
9. Sleeps With Butterflies - "The Beekeeper"
10. Winter - "Little Earthquakes"
11. Spark - "From the Choirgirl Hotel"
12. Past the Mission - "Under the Pink"
13. Jackie's Strength - "From the Choirgirl Hotel"
14. Little Earthquakes - "Little Earthquakes"
15. Pretty Good Year - "Under the Pink"
16. Smells Like Teen Spirit - "Crucify" EP
17. Talula (The Tornado Mix) - "Boys for Pele"
18. Blue Skies - BT & Tori Amos - Music from "Party of Five" (Soundtrack)
19. Taxi Ride - "Scarlet's Walk"
20. I Don't Like Mondays - "Strange Little Girls"
21. Raspberry Swirl - "From the Choirgirl Hotel"
22. Hey Jupiter - "Boys for Pele"
23. Me and a Gun - "Little Earthquakes"
24. Mary - "Tales of a Librarian"
25. Father Lucifer - "Boys for Pele"
26. The Power of Orange Knickers - "The Beekeeper"
27. 1,000 Oceans - "To Venus and Back"
28. Sweet Dreams - "Tales of a Librarian"
29. China - "Little Earthquakes"
30. Bliss - "To Venus and Back"
31. Baker Baker - "Under the Pink"
32. Happy Phantom - "Little Earthquakes"
33. Yes, Anastasia - "Under the Pink"
34. Cooling (Live) - "To Venus and Back"
35. Iieee - "From the Choirgirl Hotel"
36. Snow Cherries from France - "Tales of a Librarian"
37. Blood Roses - "Boys for Pele"
38. Sweet the Sting - "The Beekeeper"
39. Tear in Your Hand - "Little Earthquakes"
40. Home on the Range (Cherokee Edition) - "God" EP
41. Angie - "Crucify" EP
42. Icicle - "Under the Pink"
43. Enjoy the Silence - "Strange Little Girls"
44. Frog on My Toe - "Talula" single
45. The Beekeeper - "The Beekeeper"
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:37 PM
"The Beekeeper", Tori's new album, is in stores now. It was released in February 2005 and includes 19 new songs filled with allegory and symbolism. Her lyrics face current themes such as politics, war, religion, Life, Genesis (each song belongs to a specific "garden") and Death (symbolized by the enigmatic figure of the Beekeeper), womanhood and betrayal (which is probably the main theme of the whole recording). Here's the tracklist:
1. Parasol
2. Sweet the Sting
3. The Power of Orange Knickers
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Barons of Suburbia
6. Sleeps With Butterflies
7. General Joy
8. Mother Revolution
9. Ribbons Undone
10. Cars and Guitars
11. Witness
12. Original Sinsuality
13. Ireland
14. The Beekeeper
15. Martha's Foolish Ginger
16. Hoochie Woman
17. Goodbye Pisces
18. Marys of the Sea
19. Toast
The album was also inspired to her by motherhood and her relationship with her 4-year-old daughter Natashya Lorien, but the material which composes her lyrics is not entirely authobiographical: "I don't usually talk about my songs and their meaning. 'Cause there's so much in it, not only autobiographic", says Tori. "And yet if I had no connection with the songs' contents, I couldn't even sing their titles".
Tori plays her Bosendorfer and the Hammond organ her husband Mark Hawley gave her for Christmas. Some of the songs feature gospel choirs, afro-cuban percussions and vintage keyboards. The first single taken from the album was the charming "Sleeps with Butterflies", the second one was the praised, sensual "Sweet the Sting".
The album was recorded at Martian Engineering, Cornwall - where Tori lives with her husband Mark and her daughter Natashya - with long-time musicians Matt Chamberlain (drummer), Jon Evans (bass) and Mac Aladdin (guitarist), replacing Steve Caton. Aladdin had already worked with Tori on albums like "Scarlet's Walk" and "Welcome to Sunny Florida". Soundengineers were Marcel van Limbeek and her husband Mark Hawley: "Working together makes me feel as if I had a steady relationship with my own husband! It's wonderful being creative with someone who supports me and whom I'm still fond of".
A special edition, with a special package, of the cd was released: it includes a bonus dvd featuring interviews, a seed packet (!) and the beautiful extra track "Garlands"
Two videos were shot: the dreamy and fairy tale-like "Sleeps with Butterflies", while "Sweet the Sting" is quite simple and includes some backstage shots of the successful "Original Sinsuality Tour" Tori and her crew made during 2005 in America, England and all across Europe.
In February 2005 Tori's biography "Piece by Piece (Portrait of an Artist)", written with music journalist Ann Powers, was released and is now available in libraries and book stores.