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PREMIUM PACKAGING: Tori Amos release hitsright notes.
Last month saw the release of a massive career retrospective from acclaimed singer-songwriter Tori Amos. The five-disc compilation, packaged in a mini Bosendorfer-style piano box, entailed Amos painstakingly tracking down and re-mastering her entire back catalogue. Here she talks exclusively to Music Week about the project.
How did the boxed set come about?
I was inspired by the Led Zeppelin re-masters of 1992, and so I really wanted to offer something of that quality. Rhino approached us to make the set and I had been told by other artists that if I ever got the opportunity to do a boxed set, I really needed to drop everything and get involved or I would regret it, so I put the time aside.
Was it a long process?
Pulling the catalogue together was pretty time consuming, because it wasn't as if we just said, `OK, let's do a direct transfer from the records.' This was really done by hand and, in a lot of cases, just because of how the masters were kept, they had deteriorated over the years.
Boxed sets are usually the preserve of deceased artists or disbanded groups. Did it feel weird making a boxed set in that respect?
It is a strange paradox to still be alive, and not have a hearing aid, and be making a current album for Sony ...
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- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Draper, Jimmy October 10, 2006 700+ words
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- Online "Bliss": Atlantic to Sell New Tori Amos Single Via Web; First Major...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 13, 1999 700+ words
...that "Bliss," the first single from Tori Amos's forthcoming new album, "to venus...familiar CD, cassette, and vinyl. Tori Amos, who has long enjoyed a tremendous web...downloading, and Atlantic's selection of Tori Amos, known for her pioneering efforts in...
- TORI AMOS HAS A LIGHTER TOUCH THESE DAYS.(SHOWTIME)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 23, 1994 700+ words
...Or something. But singer-songwriter Tori Amos says this: ``Just personally, between...exclamation points?'' Let's see. Tori Amos, who wasn't scared of the 140 or so...can't stand exclamation points. Tori Amos, who sings before thousands of people...
- Tori Amos and the American Doll Posse Set Out On U.S. Tour This Fall.
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 25, 2007 700+ words
...crowds in Europe and Australia this year, Tori Amos is heading state-side this fall for...brand new www.toriamos.com. The new Tori Amos website takes a community-oriented...Boston, Denver, London and Manchester. Tori Amos, whose career was propelled by the release...
- TORI AMOS SETS UP A PUZZLEMENT
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) BARBARA JAEGER January 26, 1996 700+ words
...Bergen County, NJ) 01-26-1996 TORI AMOS SETS UP A PUZZLEMENT By BARBARA JAEGER...Late, 1 Star Early Column: QUICK SPINS Tori Amos, "Boys for Pele" (Atlantic; running...how much you enjoy solving puzzles. Tori Amos, whose two previous albums ("Little...
- Performer Tori Amos Discusses Her Music
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered July 5, 1994 700+ words
...0000 NOAH ADAMS, Host: The music of Tori Amos will pop out at you on the radio...That's a song called `Space Dog.' Tori Amos writes about being a ghost, and she...sold a million copies. We talked with Tori Amos here in our studio, talked about her...
- Wherehousemusic.com Digitally Retails 'Bliss,' the New Single From Tori Amos.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 13, 1999 700+ words
...FREE With Purchase of Any Title in the Tori Amos Catalog TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 13...August 13, 1999 at 12:00am, the new Tori Amos single, "Bliss," will be available...two ways to acquire this single from Tori Amos at Wherehousemusic.com. At 12:00am...