We hate having to hear Tori Amos compare herself to the new artists. What she has to offer no one can offer and she still remains better than most artists in the music industry. Tori, channel your energies into an album and don’t worry about the kids. By the way what happened to the instrumental album?
Tori Amos is not done with her bout of love for classical music. The lovely warbler is going to release Sin Palabras, an instrumental and raw version of her previous album Night of Hunters. This is all cute and everything, but we are done with the classical era of Tori Amos’s career and are looking forward to some rock loving. The album will be released on December 13th on Deutsche Grammophon.
We are finding it hard to get along with Tori Amos’s new release. On one part it is too mythological and on another too classical. At any rate, the merger of this track with the golden classic “Pretty Good Year” works well. It makes us want to give Night Of Hunters another spin.
Tori Amos working hard on the promotional wheel. Night Of Hunters might not be our favorite effort of hers, but we still love a Tori Amos interview.
Classical musings
Take away Tori Amos.
Just not up to par.
Three years ago today we launched Loft965.com onto the internet. It has been a whirlwind of a trip ever since and is still going strong. Instead of going on rants about how great it is and all, we decided to just give a synopsis by numbers through the history of the blog and what it has become.
10,002 posts (not including drafts and deleted ones)
3,035,507 individual visitors (including the first few months before the official launch)
2 online awards (one this year, one last year)
#65 most- read music blog on Wikio (we’ve been on a long vacation, still not bad at all)
#27 most-read music blog worldwide! (Last month’s ratings on Technorati, whoa!)
12,647 comments (approved, non-discriminatory and on-topic ones)
15,716 tags (including misspelled ones, lol)
56 categories (enough for us, we thinks)
2,165 followers on Facebook (check it here)
1,340 + 585 followers on Twitter (check it here, too and here)
9 artist interviews (more to come soon!)
2 staff members (sometimes three, depending on the mugaga)
332,311th most-checked website in the US (according to Alexa, this includes everything online not just blogs)
402 websites linking in to us (according to Alexa, again)
477,268th most-checked website globally (love this one!)
25-34 is the age range of our visitors (obv)
0 number of kids they have (double obv)
5,490th most-RSSed blog worldwide! (generally, not music-specific)
1 countries we are banned in (cause we’re danja! Especially proud of this one)
38 online compilations (clickitty click)
100% goodness (we thinks)
We can’t think of any more we’d like to divulge at this moment. At any rate, these are just some quirky insights on the website’s progress. As always we promise to keep up the work we are doing in catering to your daily music needs. Send us feedback via email, Twitter or comments. We love you, appreciate you and embrace you. Keep on coming by the thousands on daily basis and we promise to deliver. Much love from the sky somewhere over New York!
We went out on the town last night and heard from a fellow toriphile that Tori Amos’s eagerly-awaited, highly-anticipated new album Night Of Hunters has leaked in full online. Of course, we couldn’t sleep until we listened to the whole thing, so we settled for YouTube. At any rate, the album’s out and it surely will impress. Click here to be forwarded to another unaffiliated blog to investigate the leak!
This has got to be one of the album that we are looking forward to the most. Night Of Hunters is Tori Amos’s new offering and we a reeling for a listen of anything from the classical-tinged disc.
This is a must-watch video not because of its visual, but because it marks the triumphant return of Tori Amos onto the scene and into our fragile hearts. We are so happy that the goddess of emotions is back with a full offering. She is so prolific that when she takes a break it feel like a gap in the music world. We can’t wait to hear the album and we are jiving hard to thing over here at a refugee camp in North Kenya!
One of our favorite artists on earth has launched her media campaign for the new classical-inspired album Night Of Hunter and, boy, do we love us some Tori Amos interviews. The very poignant Amos usually packs a punch in her interviews, but we didn’t expect her to be an addict of reality show like us. She has explained: “I actually sat with Tash at Easter and watched ‘The Real Housewives of New York’ from the beginning. She said, “Mom, you’re going to get addicted!” I sat there eating popcorn watching the whole thing – I couldn’t believe it – from early morning until late at night. My sister was flying in and we were waiting for her to show up and it wasn’t a great day outside and so we watched an entire season! It was crazy! But I couldn’t watch it ever again. I said, “I can’t do this, Tash – I’ll never work again!”
No it’s not named after the retriever, but it will leave you howling until its release date. Rachael Yamagata wants to offer us more of her moody balladeering on this one, but this time with a more mainstream twist. This pledge-backed album is set to make Rachael Yamagata a household name. Chesapeake is the record Yamagata always wanted to make. “In a funny way I think this might be a more commercial record for me in terms of reaching a broader audience because there was no attempt or requirement to be anything but what we felt like doing in the room,” she told Rolling Stone magazine.
Okay, we just received a press release about the new Tori Amos album Night Of Huntersand we don’t feel like regurgitating it. So, we will post it verbatim. Here:
| “With more than 12 million albums sold and multiple Grammy nominations, Tori Amos is one of the most successful and influential artists of her generation. A pioneer across multiple platforms, she was the first major-label artist to offer a single for download, has had her songs turned into graphic novels, and has produced pioneering videos throughout her career. She is renowned for her passionate and broad fan-base, her critically and commercially successful tours, and her ever-evolving live show.
The latest addition to Amos’s series of ground-breaking recordings, Night of Hunters, is her twelfth studio album and her first for Deutsche Grammophon. This 21st-century song cycle takes its inspiration from classical pieces spanning the last 400 years, by composers ranging from Bach and Schubert to Granados and Satie, and marks the return of Amos’s piano to centre stage. It is also her first studio album exclusively involving acoustic instruments. The songs are arranged for string quartet and flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon in various formations. For the recording Amos has put together an ensemble of outstanding performers from the classical world, including the award-winning young Polish string quartet Apollon Musagète and Berlin Philharmonic principal clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer.
With Night of Hunters, which she wrote and produced, Amos carries on the tradition of variations on a theme to create a bold new work while paying tribute to the mastery of the original compositions. In her own words: “I have used the structure of a classical song cycle to tell an ongoing, modern story. The protagonist is a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship. In the course of one night she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself, allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter. One of the main themes explored on this album is the hunter and the hunted and how both exist within us.” |
Okay, this night keeps getting better and better. Goddess, here with her new sleeve. Much to be said later. 9/10.
It’s official. Today, we woke up to an email from Tori Amos‘ mailing list telling us that, aside from the fact that the musical she is working on is almost ready, the diva is ready to unleash a new album titled Night Of Hunters, currently slated for a September release. The album is going to be a magnifying look at classical music, a genre Tori Amos has loved forever.
Here’s what she had to say about it: ”It’s a 21st century song cycle inspired by classical music themes spanning over 400 years. I have used the structure of a song cycle to tell an ongoing, modern story. The protagonist is a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship. In the course of one night she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter. One of the main themes explored on this album is the hunter and the hunted and how both exist within us.”
As if this wasn’t enough, Tori Amos has also announced a tour to go along with it! Click below for the dates.
Some unsubstantiated new has surfaced about Tori Amos’s new release. Some people are saying that the new album will be called Reckless Night, which is too mundane, but we will go with it. We know she has been working on The Light Princess musical adamantly so this weirds us out as to the time of the release. Anyway, we love anything from Tori, even if it’s alleged.
