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TORI AMOS – ” Native Invader “

Posted: December 1, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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On September. 8th, Tori Amos released her 15th studio record, “Native Invader”. It will be her first record since 2014’s Unrepentant Geraldines and, according to her statement that accompanied the news, she’s exploring the correlation between environmental and interpersonal issues.

“The songs on Native Invader are being pushed by the Muses to find different ways of facing unforeseen challenges and in some cases dangerous conflicts,” she wrote. “The record looks to Nature and how, through resilience, she heals herself. The songs also wrestle with the question: what is our part in the destruction of our land, as well as ourselves, and in our relationships with each other?”

She continued, “In life there can be the shock of unexpected fires, floods, earthquakes, or any cataclysmic ravager – both on the inside and outside of our minds. Sonically and visually, I wanted to look at how Nature creates with her opposing forces, becoming the ultimate regenerator through her cycles of death and re-birth. Time and time again she is able to renew, can we find this renewal for ourselves?”

Tori Amos also performed some dates for the European leg of a world tour.

On her 15th album, Tori Amos takes inspiration from the Smoky Mountains’ childhood of her mother, who recently suffered a debilitating stroke, and the election of Donald Trump, bringing listeners along for a powerful exploration of the glory inherent in nature, femininity, and vulnerability.

On this surging, cathartic album of pop piano poetry, Amos’ giant voice and expansive imagination wrap you up tight and warm, giving you the space to bawl your eyes out. Together, the soaring vocals, complex arrangements, and vivid imagery offer a painful, inspiring, holy experience that could only exist in 2017.

Essential Tracks: “Up the Creek”, “Bang”, and “Climb”

unnamed 14 Top 50 Albums of 2017

TORI AMOS – ” Up The Creek “

Posted: August 13, 2017 in MUSIC
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Tori Amos has shared a new song off her forthcoming album, Native Invader, entitled ‘Up The Creek’.

The record will come out via Decca Records and, on the new single, features cameo vocals from Amos’ daughter, Tash. “Native Invader” is an intense feast of melody, protest, tenderness and pain. In the summer of 2016, Tori took a road trip through North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains. The intention was to reconnect with the stories and songlines of her mother’s family, who were from the North Carolina and Tennessee Smoky Mountain area. That winter, two seismic events knocked the plan off its axis. The fall out from the US Election. And in January her mother, Maryellen Amos, suffered a severe stroke leaving her unable to speak.

The complex influence of America’s alt-right Super PACs, lobbyists and think tanks informs much of the tension in Native Invader. “”It wasn’t going to be a record of pain, blood and bone when I began,” Tori says. “”It wasn’t going to be a record of division. But the Muses 9 insisted that I listened and watched the conflicts that were traumatizing the nation and write about those raw emotions. Hopefully people will find strength and resilience within the songs to give them the energy to survive the storms that we are currently in””. The sense of semantic distortion permeates Native Invader. Tori talks of the need to form a “”militia of the mind”” in the face of national lies.

The record looks to Nature and how, through resilience, she heals herself,” Amos explained in a statement. “The songs also wrestle with the question: what is our part in the destruction of our land, as well as ourselves, and in our relationships with each other?”

Beginning in September, Tori Amos will head out on tour throughout the UK and Europe.

 

THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES – 18th November 2016

Posted: November 19, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Who, My Generation: Super Deluxe Edition
This 5-CD, 79-track box set celebrating The Who’s debut includes the original mono album (newly remastered), a disc of mono bonus tracks (newly remastered) and a disc of stereo bonus tracks. It also includes a new stereo remix of the album originally released on iTunes in 2014 featuring new overdubs by Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey using the same guitars and amps and the same type of microphones used on the original album. (Generation was first mixed to stereo for the 2002 reissue, but dropped many of the overdubs from the mono album – this new stereo mix recreates them). Finally, a disc of demos is included – which features three previously unheard songs: “The Girls I Could Have Had,” “As Children We Grew” and “My Own Love.” An 80-page book and six inserts top off this lavish set! The U.S. release for this box is set for December 9. It is available today in the U.K.

R.E.M., Out of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition
R.E.M.’s 1991 classic is revisited as a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download as part of the band’s new deal with Concord Bicycle Music. The box includes the original album on Disc 1 followed by nineteen demo tracks on Disc 2. The third disc contains a concert from Capitol Plaza Theater in Charleston, West Virginia performed on April 28, 1991 and aired on NPR as an installment of their Mountain Stage program. The Blu-ray has the original album both in Hi-Resolution Stereo and Hi-Resolution 5.1 Surround. It also contains 8 music videos and an 18-minute EPK which contains studio and performance footage. The new liner notes by music journalist Annie Zaleski features interviews with the band members and producers of the album. The 2-CD edition contains the first two discs of the deluxe edition and the 3-LP edition replicates those two discs as well.

Jethro Tull, Stand Up: The Elevated Edition
For the past several years, Jethro Tull has been releasing expanded editions of their albums featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson. Just under a year after the release of the last reissue in the series of 1976’s Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die!, here is a 2CD/1DVD version of 1969’sStand Up, entitled Stand Up: The Elevated Edition. Housed in a deluxe hardcover book-style package complete with a pop-up in the style of the original release,

Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger
This seven disc set – four CDs, two DVDs and a Blu-ray – expanded the rockers’ third album to staggering proportions. Astoundingly, much of Badmotorfinger’s deluxe content has never been released before. You get the remastered album, a disc of studio outtakes (with just one released track, a version of “New Damage” with Queen guitarist Brian May), a 1992 live set at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on two CDs and a DVD, an additional DVD of live footage and music videos (including the DVD premiere of the Motorvision VHS) and the entire album newly remixed in 5.1 surround for Blu-ray. The battery-operated (!) box set edition also comes with a 52-page book, a 12″ x 12″ lenticular print, four 8″ x 10″ band member photo cards, stickers and an iron-on patch. More frugal fans can opt for a 2CD deluxe edition, 2LP 180-gram vinyl or just the original album remastered on CD.

Tori Amos, Boys For Pele: 20th Anniversary Edition

This expanded edition of Tori Amos’ third album, Boys for Pele, will feature new liner notes penned by Amos and a 21-track bonus disc of demos, B-sides and alternate versions, four of which (“To the Fair Motormaids of Japan,” “Sucker,” a remix of “Talula” and an alternate take of “In the Springtime of His Voodoo”) are previously unreleased. A double vinyl reissue of the original album will also be available.

DUNGEN - Haxan

Dungen – Haxan
Long before psych fests were springing up all across the globe populated by bands operating aesthetically in ever decreasing circles, Sweden’s Dungen were blazing a trail through the consciousness with psychic transmissions that connected the pastoral spirit of the late ’60s with the 21st century. Haxan however marks something of a departure for the band, having been put together to soundtrack Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 classic silent film – taking the demonic and haunting imagery as inspiration, the result is a standalone piece replete with wild freakout, eerie soundscapes and panoramic ambience, reflecting new horizons and underlining this visionary troupe’s enduring power.

TORI AMOS – ” Boys For Pele ” Reissue

Posted: October 28, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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On the 18th November, Tori Amos will release a deluxe remastered version of “Pele”, which will include a second disc of era-appropriate B-sides, which is good news indeed because, as any fan from back then will tell you, her B-sides were often some of her best songs.
Tori Amos’ first two albums of confessional alt-classical pop, Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink, earned her a devoted fanbase and a few radio hits, but it was the expansive, raw and wildly experimental Boys For Pele that solidified her reputation as one of the most important singer songwriters of her generation, equally adept at shredding religious hypocrisy as investigating the remains of her shattered heart.

FIRST LISTEN: AMOS' ALAMO

Written in the wake of her breakup with Eric Rosse, with whom she co-produced her first two albums, Amos recorded part of Pele in an old Irish church, acting as sole producer for the first time. Though the album received a mixed critical reception at the time and had a rocky release , it launched several of Tori Amos’ best-known singles (including “Caught A Lite Sneeze,” “Hey Jupiter,” and “Professional Widow”), was nominated for a Best Alternative Album Grammy,”.

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BOYS FOR PELE (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION), complete with a bonus disc of b-side rarities, remixes, and four unreleased tracks including the long-awaited debut of “To The Fair Motormaids Of Japan,” is coming down the pike. If the November 18th release date seems too far away, Check out the song “Alamo” and watch a clip of Tori talking about the track here. You can also download “Alamo” and “Amazing Grace/Til The Chicken” on a preorder

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LYLA FOY – ” Cornflake Girl ” Tori Amos cover

Posted: December 13, 2014 in MUSIC
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London-based singer-songwriter Lyla Foy layers synthesizers and dreamy vocals to craft an atmospheric, intimate and eerily beautiful version of one of Tori Amos‘ most well-known songs, “Cornflake Girl.”

 

LYLA FOY – ” Cornflake Girl ” Tori Amos Cover

Posted: May 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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LYLA FOY has had a superb year with the excellent debut album “Mirrors In The Sky” and since her earlier recording as WALL her haunting voice, and a tour soon supporting Sharon Van Etten plus this great cover she has chosen a wonderful song to cover, Tori Amos hit town and played a superb set of songs only just last week here in Nottingham,