Tuna, rubber, a little Tori Amos #5 in my igloo.

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Matt Chamberlain has posted that recording on Tori’s next album will be starting as soon as next week!

In his June 2nd news update, Matt writes:

Just packed up and and shipped a bunch of drums to be sent out to Cornwall England for next week when I start recording the new Tori Amos record—lots of recording and learning going on…...

Thanks to Robert Schrader for bring this to our attention.

And, just to recap the little we know about the new record (as all of this predates Undented), the first whiff of a new album came up in June 2005 when Tori played a new song durng the soundcheck of the Bonn stop on the Original Sinsuality tour. A couple months later, she confirmed in an In Newsweekly interview that she was working on new material but that the earliest it would be released would be 2007. Tori divulged more on XM Artist Confidential saying that the “warrior woman” inside her would come out more on the next record. Finally, in an interview Rolling Stone posted at the end of March, she talked a little about how the next record appeared to be a different new chapter and that we “hadn’t felt this Tori in a while.”

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The Collection Reveals Amos’ Classics, Rarities, B-Sides and
Unreleased Tracks for a Five-Disc, Career-Spanning Box Set

A PIANO: THE COLLECTION
Track Listing


Disc 1
“Leather” (Alternate Mix)
“Precious Things” (Alternate Mix)
“Silent All These Years”
“Upside Down”
“Crucify” (Unedited Single Version)*
“Happy Phantom”
“Me And A Gun”
“Flying Dutchman” (Alternate Mix)
“Girl”
“Winter”
“Take To The Sky (Russia)”
“Tear In Your Hand”
“China”
“Sweet Dreams”
“Mother” (Alternate Mix)
“Little Earthquakes”


Disc 2

“Cornflake Girl”
“Honey”
“Take Me With You” *
“Baker Baker” (Alternate Mix)
“The Waitress” (Alternate Mix)
“Pretty Good Year”
“God”
“Cloud On My Tongue”
“Past The Mission” (Alternate Mix)
“Bells For Her”
“Yes, Anastasia” (Alternate Mix)
“Blood Roses”
“Mr. Zebra”
“Caught A Lite Sneeze” (Alternate Mix)
“Professional Widow” (Merry Widow Version - Live)
“Beauty Queen/Horses”
“Father Lucifer”
“Marianne”


Disc 3

“Walk To Dublin” (Sucker Reprise)*
“Hey Jupiter” (Dakota Version)
“Professional Widow” (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix)
“Putting The Damage On”
“Bliss” (Remixed Version)
“Suede”
“Glory Of The 80’s”
“1000 Oceans”
“Concertina” (Single Remix Version)
“Lust”
“Datura”
“Sugar” (Live from sound check)
“The Waitress” (Live)
“Snow Cherries From France”
“Doughnut Song” (Remixed Version)


Disc 4

“A Sorta Fairytale”
“Not David Bowie” *
“Amber Waves”
“Iieee” (Remixed Version)
“Playboy Mommy” (Remixed Version)
“The Beekeeper”
“Jackie’s Strength”
“Zero Point”*
“Sweet The Sting”
“Ode To My Clothes” *
“Spark”
“Intro Jam”* and “Marys Of The Sea”
“Cruel” (Remixed Version)
“Dolphin Song”*
“Gold Dust”


Disc 5

“The Pool”
“Never Seen Blue”
“Daisy Dead Petals”
“Beulah Land”
“Sugar”
“Cooling”
“Bachelorette”
“Black Swan”
“Mary” (Tales Version)
“Peeping Tommi” *
“Toodles Mr. Jim”
Demo Medley:
“Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen” (Demo)*
“Playboy Mommy” (Demo)*
“A Sorta Fairytale” (Demo)*
“This Old Man”
“Purple People”
“Here. In My Head”
“Hungarian Wedding Song”
“Merman”
“Sister Janet”
“Home On The Range” (Cherokee Edition)
“Frog On My Toe”

*Previously Unreleased

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Available From Rhino Records September 26

At the time of her debut in 1992, Tori Amos’ captivating storytelling and quirky yet sublime mix of piano, pop, rock and classical music were as conspicuous as her flaming-red ringlets among the dark-haired pop divas who ruled the charts. Since then, Amos’ uncompromising studio albums and cathartic concerts have earned her recognition as one of the most influential artists of the past two decades while inspiring a legion of devoted fans. Rhino Records brings together Amos’ classics, rarities, remixes and previously unreleased music for A PIANO: THE COLLECTION. Presented in deluxe packaging that resembles a piano’s keyboard, this five-disc box set is available September 26 at regular retail outlets and at http://www.rhino.com for a suggested price of $74.98.


Produced by Amos, the career-spanning collection highlights selections from her studio albums as well as b-sides and songs that debuted on Tales of a Librarian, a recent Best of compilation. Featuring numerous unreleased songs, the box set contains a total of 86 tracks that combine well-known studio versions with rare alternative mixes, including several songs Amos remixed for this project. A PIANO: THE COLLECTION also offers a revealing and extensive track-by-track commentary penned by Amos, who discusses the inspiration behind the songs and albums and explains why they were chosen for this box set.


The compilation’s first disc includes an extended version of Amos’ 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes. The classic album has been augmented not only with a different song sequence and alternate mixes but it also features it’s four original b-sides “Upside Down,” “Take To The Sky (Russia),” “Sweet Dreams” and an alternate mix of “Flying Dutchman,” as well as the previously unreleased, unedited single version of “Crucify.”


Spotlighting music recorded between 1994 and 1996, the second disc includes songs from Under the Pink and Boys for Pele. The 18 tracks blend original and remixed versions of albums cuts with the b-side “Honey” and “Professional Widow” performed live. Also included is “Take Me With You,” an unreleased song intended for Little Earthquakes. “At the time I just couldn’t finish it,” writes Amos in the liner notes. “When we found it, there were no lyrics to speak of, just music. So you’ll have something partly recorded in 1990 but with a vocal recorded in 2006…”


The third disc also includes songs associated with Boys for Pele plus 1999’s To Venus and Back and Tales of a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection. The 15 songs feature original and remixed versions of album tracks as well as “Hey Jupiter” (Dakota Version) and “Professional Widow” (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix). Also featured is “Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise),” an unreleased track from the Pele sessions.


From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998), Scarlet’s Walk (2002) and The Beekeeper (2005) are the focus of the fourth disc, which contains 15 songs including original and remixed versions of album tracks. Also featured is the unheard intro for “Marys Of The Sea” from The Beekeeper as well as four previously unreleased songs “Not David Bowie,” “Zero Point,” “Ode To My Clothes” and “Dolphin Song.” In the liner notes, Amos writes: “Some songs seem to have a timeline for when they want to be finished and put out to the world. At the time when we were working on ‘Dolphin Song,’ I had all kinds of ideas for her development after the basic tracking had been done. Instead she got set aside for a while. But once we started to go through the tape library we put ‘Dolphin’ up on the faders again, and I realized we didn’t need to record anything else; it was finished.”


The final disc features 22 tracks spotlighting Amos’ impressive list of renowned b-sides and includes the exclusive digital release “Merman” from 1999. For what could be the most intriguing addition to the collection, Amos invites listeners into her artistic process with a medley of demos for the songs, “Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen,” “Playboy Mommy” and “A Sorta Fairytale.” Amos explains in the liner notes: “I’m usually pretty reticent to expose the musical development process...The demo medley was a choice I made so that other songwriters can feel an affinity with the idea that songwriters have to push themselves and not just accept the first incarnation that you are presented with. Each of these three songs are presented here in their completed form somewhere within the box set so you can see conception to development.”

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Op donderdag 3 augustus 2006 08:00 schreef Ang3l het volgende:
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Wel een mooie doos (die linker dan he )

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Op donderdag 14 september 2006 22:58 schreef Slappy het volgende:
Winter/Tears in your hands vind ik mooie nummers.
Welke cd's zijn aanradders?

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Op donderdag 14 september 2006 23:50 schreef Slappy het volgende:
Tori Amos heeft toch ook nummer van Slayer gecoverd

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Op donderdag 14 september 2006 22:53 schreef LuQas het volgende:
En er is gelekt. Als mensen interesse hebben...

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Op vrijdag 15 september 2006 18:31 schreef Slappy het volgende:
Hoe heet die nieuwe cd eigelijks?

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Op dinsdag 26 september 2006 08:02 schreef Ang3l het volgende:
Hmm, pre-order bij bol.com .... 75,- EUR
Pre-order bij Amazon.com .... 55,- $
Scheelt nogal Volgens mij is ie dan zelfs incl shipping vanuit Amazon nog goedkoper

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Op woensdag 27 september 2006 08:34 schreef LuQas het volgende:
De nieuwe Iieee is zo mooi!

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2006 20:51 schreef Ang3l het volgende:

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Jah, klinkt wel lekker.

Zero Point is sexy duister mysterieus

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2006 18:46 schreef Ang3l het volgende:
binnen

Aangehouden bij de douane omdat die amazon sukkels 'm in een veels te grote doos hadden gedaan. Dus ook nog 11,- BTW en inklaringskosten moeten betalen Maar ach

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2006 14:39 schreef LuQas het volgende:

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Zero Point is briljant ja!

Evenals the Dolphin Song en Not David Bowie!

Ik vind zelfs Ode to my Clothes fantastisch.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2006 14:44 schreef Slappy het volgende:

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je moet wat over hebben voor je idool.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2006 17:02 schreef Ang3l het volgende:

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O dus jij hebt hem ook al in huis?

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Op zondag 19 november 2006 20:05 schreef Sammy3000 het volgende:
Tori Amos vind ik de laatste tijd niet zo denderend meer. Haar eerste platen vind ik ge-wel-dig!
Van de A Piano-box word ik wel weer enthousiast...

In hoeverre is deze box de moeite waard om aan te schaffen voor de niet die-hard fan? Zijn de andere versies, B-kantjes en obscuriteiten ook leuk voor de "vroegere bewonderaar"?

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Op dinsdag 21 november 2006 07:59 schreef LuQas het volgende:

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Als je de b-kantjes nog niet kent, zou ik ze wel aanschaffen. Daarnaast is het ook erg fijn om een Little Earthquakes te kunnen beluisteren die eens een keer ECHT goed klinkt. Het hangt denk ik een beetje van je budget af, want het is natuurlijk ook niet een koopje.

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Op dinsdag 21 november 2006 08:12 schreef Ang3l het volgende:
Ik vind juist de "andere versies" helemaal niet zo heel "anders". Tenminste, hier en daar een pingeltje of een viooltje en wat helderder, maar het is en blijft hetzelfde nummer. Zijn er maar heel weinig (geen?) die echt anders zijn en de naam "alternate mix" waardig zijn. Bij een alternate mix denk ik toch echt aan een remix o.i.d..

Maar het is fijn om een boel van diverse cd's bij elkaar te hebben, de b-kantjes en andere onuitgebrachte nummers zijn erg de moeite waard. Daarnaast is de doos natuurlijk ERG mooi en het boekje ook. Staan mooi te schiteren in m'n boekenkast

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Op dinsdag 27 juni 2006 20:42 schreef LuQas het volgende:
En begin 2007 een nieuw album, en een nieuwe tour! Ik word wild!

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Op vrijdag 24 november 2006 21:10 schreef Misstique het volgende:

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Is al bekend wanneer haar nieuwe album uitkomt?

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Op zondag 26 november 2006 10:36 schreef LuQas het volgende:

En, wat ook erg fijn is, de harpsichord zal haar come-back maken!

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From the AOL Music Blog (Tori Amos Lets Music Speak for Itself) 7/6/06. Here, Tori gives us some more info on the songwriting, and a slotted time for release:
Meanwhile, Amos is currently working on the followup to 2005's 'The Beekeeper' at her home in Cornwall, England. "It's a real challenge, allowing myself to not have any kind of subject limits [this time] because I was trying to protect my child," she said of her new album. "But that's not the only reason I've written what I've written and done what I've done the last five years. Now that I've addressed things coming from the mother, the minister's daughter and a sexual creature, it's time to do something else energetically. I'm not quite sure how to put it in words yet and I think it's better to let the music speak for itself."
Longtime drummer Matt Chamberlain wrote in a post on his Web site last week that tracking for the album was complete. "It was a really fun and intense 3 weeks of non-stop playing, eating, playing, sleeping and playing," he said. "All I can say is that it rocks!"

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BBC: Can you tell us a little bit about the next album?
TORI: No. No . . .
BBC: What stage is it in?
TORI: I’m in the middle. I feel like Albert Einstein with my hair out to here, and I’ve put my finger in an electric socket, and I’m editing, and blowing things up, and bringing harpsichords back in, and Wurlys in and out, and pianos in . . . You know, I’m in the middle of the mad scientist phase.

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SIMON: So when you say ‘end of an era’, you really do mean that?
TORI: Yeah I do, I really do, I really do,
SIMON: So you’re gonna stop?
TORI: I’m doing something different, no I’m not gonna stop, but this is the end of the last 15 years. 15 years of my life.
SIMON: So what do you do next?
TORI: (mysteriously) We’ll see.
SIMON: You must have an idea?
TORI: I’ve got something up my sleeve.
SIMON: You know what the problem is, it’s Cornwall, that’s what‘s got to you.
TORI: (giggles)
SIMON: You know while you were in the States everything was fine, you settled down in Cornwall and all of a sudden you’re thinking of other thoughts.
TORI: Well, I’m thinking of high-heels, and creating and I’m thinking that my daughter is 6 now, so she can understand that there’s a Tori that can’t go to school. You can’t take that, to school. You can take Mummy to school, but there’s a side that has to now go confront certain issues in America that need to be addressed.
LATER ON IN THE SAME INTERVIEW
SIMON: You need to rock out more.
TORI: (giggles) You know, that’s a really good point, I think you’re on to something.
SIMON: Is this the next phase that you’re referring too?
TORI: Maybe, maybe it should be.
SIMON: Tori Rocks?
TORI: Maybe, why not? At 43 years old maybe it’s time.
LATER ON
SIMON: Okay, we’ll do that. So when do we get to talk again Tori?
TORI: Maybe April…

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Op zondag 31 december 2006 10:19 schreef LuQas het volgende:
Overigens is vorige week gelekt dat de tour van volgend jaar er een met band zal zijn. Ouderwets met Jon en Matt.

Voor mij in ieder geval niet zo ouderwets want ik heb haar alleen nog solo gezien.

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Op zondag 31 december 2006 13:45 schreef Ang3l het volgende:

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Hmm. Jammer. Heb haar 2x alleen gezien en 1x met band en vond de keer met band de minste.
Zij en de piano worden zo overstemd door de gitaar en drum.

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Op zondag 31 december 2006 10:19 schreef LuQas het volgende:
Overigens is vorige week gelekt dat de tour van volgend jaar er een met band zal zijn. Ouderwets met Jon en Matt.

Voor mij in ieder geval niet zo ouderwets want ik heb haar alleen nog solo gezien.

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Op zondag 31 december 2006 13:46 schreef Litpho het volgende:

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Was dat in Ahoy? Dan lag dat niet aan de gitaar en drum (_{maar aan die achterlijke galmbak}) .