Unrepentant Geraldines Tori Amos

• 1America04:11
• 2Trouble's Lament03:44
• 3Wild Way02:55
• 4Wedding Day03:45
• 5Weatherman04:41
• 616 Shades Of Blue03:52
• 7Maids Of Elfen-Mere02:53
• 8Promise04:05
• 9Giant's Rolling Pin04:11
• 10Selkie04:05
• 11Unrepentant Geraldines06:57
• 12Oysters05:14
• 13Rose Dover03:56
• 14Invisible Boy04:55
• Total Runtime59:24

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One of the most accomplished and respected artists, songwriters and performers of the last 20 years, Tori Amos new and 14th studio album 'Unrepentant Geraldines' is a winner. „Unrepentant Geraldines“ is a return to her core identity as a creator of contemporary songs of exquisite beauty following a series of more classically-inspired and innovative musical projects of the last four years. These have included the seasonal collection Midwinter Graces, the classically influenced Night of Hunters, and Gold Dust, a collection of orchestral reworkings of songs from across her career.

Fuelled by an array of unique projects and experiences Unrepentant Geraldines is both one further step in the artistic evolution of one of the most successful and influential artists of her generation and a return to the inspiring and personal music that Amos is known for all around the world.

Tori Amos has sold over 12 million albums, has played over a thousand shows and has won numerous awards. Since the release of her debut album Little Earthquakes 21 years ago in 1992 where she pushed boundaries with her confessional style of songwriting, Amos continues to be adored, picking up new fans along the way, romanced by her messages of empowerment, tenderness, acerbic assertiveness, and of course her utterly peerless sound.

Amos talks to Rolling Stone in regards to the cover: 'I've always been inspired by visual artists of all mediums because, as with music, art is not a job you can go to and leave from, but it is something that defines who and what you are. Visual artists shake up our brains and force us to look at everything, from objects we don't normally think twice about to people we might not have cared about.'

„After a number of years spent making detours into classical music and musical theater with albums for Deutsche Grammophon and the musical The Light Princess, the queen of quirky, grown-up pop returns to the popular music world with this, her 14th studio album. Heavily inspired by her love of fine art, in particular the work of outsider photographer Diane Arbus, the album is described as a return to Amos' core piano-led sound.“ (John D. Buchanan, All Music Guide)

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Martian Engineering, Cornwall, UK
Recorded and mixed by Mark Hawley and Marcel van Limbeek
Chief Technician: Adam Spry
Mastered by Jon Astley
Produced by Tori Amos

Tori Amos
Tori Amos has an extraordinary fan base. It’s not unusual to hear her listeners explain how a song changed their life, through its ability to alter perspective and heal. Or even that a song might have saved their life. Since the release of her debut Little Earthquakes 20 years ago in 1992, where she smashed apart boundaries with her piano rock and raw, confessional poetry, Amos continues to be adored, picking up new fans along the way, romanced by her messages of empowerment, tenderness, acerbic assertiveness, and that utterly unique sound.

Even before her commercial breakthrough at 28, the enigmatic sides of her personality were being realised: years of classical training at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, singing in clubs and bars from the age of 13 and, then, fronting synthpop band Y Kant Tori Read. A taste for pushing limitations and stretching her talent and imagination had already been planted.

Although her signature remains swelling, filigreed piano rock, she has experimented with different musical styles and instruments over the last twenty years, from the baroque dusk of Boys for Pele (1996), the electronic experimentalism of From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998) and To Venus and Back (1999) to her return to the classical world with the classically inspired song cycle Night of Hunters (2011). She managed to achieve the rarely possible with a successful concept album (American Doll Posse, 2007) and an acclaimed Christmas record (Midwinter Graces, 2009) while retaining her artistic integrity. Gold Dust is her 13th studio album, a varied selection of works from her songbook all newly arranged for vocals, piano and orchestra, recorded with the Metropole Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon/Mercury Classics.

Amos, never one to shy away from the reality of life in her lyrics, has tackled the breadth of life's subjects over the last two decades. Although her writing is confessional and she has famously put her own experiences, both positive and harrowing, into song, the way she does it leaves the door open for the listener to join in.

Each of the 12 albums Amos has released so far have been layered with symbols, history and dimensions, that make them stand out as true works of art. The Beekeeper (2005) circles around topics of death, loss and adultery; Scarlet's Walk (2002) maps and re-calibrates the American psyche after 9/11 seen through a prism of the writer's Cherokee roots; Abnormally Attracted to Sin (2009) is accompanied by a set of short films, each a visualisation of one of the albums songs, whilst Boys for Pele, her first self-produced album, is a virile feminist totem through which she binned the patriarchy and snatched back her independence.

In interviews Amos has spoken of the way she sees herself as a vehicle for a higher musical power or muse. Perhaps it is this unusual humility that has kept her creative force safe for twenty years.

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