De Morgen's A Piano Review

The Flemish newspaper De Morgen reviewed A Piano: The Collection. Thanks to tip_of.yourstar for finding and translating the review from the Dutch!

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The Biiiig Picture (A Tori Mosaic)

The folks at EverythingTori.com are putting together a giant outdoor mosaic composed of teeny-tiny photos of Toriphiles photographed with a Tori album cover (click the link for examples). Everyone who enters will be eligible to win a piano key signed by Tori, and there’s an option to enter the contest without sending a photo.

For now, we don’t know where and when the final mosaic will be shown. Hey, Mark and Melanie, kudos for the tip.

Brazilian Singer Covers "Black-Dove (January)"

Brazilian singer, composer and violinist Badi Assad’s new album, “Wonderland,” includes a number of covers, including Tori’s “Black-Dove (January),” the Eurhythmics’ “Sweet Dreams,” and Asian Dub Foundation’s “1,000 Mirrors.” She doesn’t offer any samples of the Tori cover on her site, but you can head on over and learn more about her history and music. Jonathan, thanks for sending this in!

A Piano On iTunes

Fire up your computers, dear readers: As we previously announced, the entire 86-song collection included on A Piano is now available on iTunes. Now you’ll have something to listen to while you’re wrapping holiday gifts or roasting something delicious for your family.

L Tunes To Include a Tori Track

“A Sorta Fairytale” will be included on L Tunes, a collection of songs featured during and inspired by the Showtime television series The L Word. The compilation includes “new and classic music from lesbian artists as well as ‘lesbian adjacent’ female artists”. (Hey! If I stand next to a lesbian, can I be lesbian-adjacent too?) Specifically, the other musicians featured are Kirsten Price, Goldfrapp, Fiona Apple, Prototypes, Johnny Boy, Pink, Kelis, Da Brat featuring Cherish, PJ Harvey, Nina Simone, The Cliks, Peaches, and BETTY. The record will be released on January 2, 2007 by Music With A Twist.

Read on for the full press release about the compilation.

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Ballerina Has Fins That You'll Never Find

Following up on our previous article about Leona Naess’s song “Ballerina”, here’s what we have (and haven’t) been able to sort out…

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Courtney Sounds Off On Trent & Tori

We know some people can’t resist a bit of good gossip, so we thought we’d mention that Courtney Love has been posting recently at the Moonwashed Rose blog, a site that tracks Courtney-related news and rumors. And some of those recent comments have (somewhat belligerently) addressed the rumor that she somehow “ruined” a romance between Tori and Trent Reznor.

You can see Courtney’s full-on “explanation” in this thread, but for those of you who can’t decipher the Courtneyglyphs, here’s a few key quotes, transcribed into plain English:

“I haven’t a clue about Trent and Tori’s relationship. Maybe she got mad when she discovered his dinkle was playing away games. I don’t know. I don’t know her. Not my problem or my business.”

She also offers a critique of Tori’s music:

“I know ‘Cornflake Girl’ and ‘Professional Widow’ (Is that supposed to be about me? I’ve never figured it out.) are supposed to be big classics but it doesn’t resonate … Kurt thought her ‘Teen Spirit’ was HYSTERCAL in a joke song sort of way but now I see it as rather sad, and I guess mournful, which was the point, we just thought it was really funny.”

Thanks to CC for the tip!

2007 RAINN Calendar For Sale

The annual 13-month calendar benefiting the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network is now for sale at the RAINN Web site. The calendar features 13 gorgeous paintings of Tori (click the link to see them all), and sales proceeds will benefit RAINN. Thanks to Mitchell Truman for letting us know these are ready!

BFBS Radio 1 Interview

An interview with Tori will be aired during The UK Evening Show on British Forces Broadcasting Services Radio 1 on Thursday, December 14th. This three-hour program is on at 7pm BST (2pm Eastern/11am Pacific).

BFBS Radio broadcasts on FM or AM in various locations around the world, is available on Sky Digital or you can listen online with Windows Media player.

Thanks to vicci on the Toriphorums for posting about this!

Update: Thanks to Katran_sutra for a transcript of the interview!

Little Blue World's Winter 2006 Issue

The Winter issue of the Tori fanzine Little Blue World will ship in mid-January. Here’s some of what’s included in this upcoming issue:

• Interviews: LBW talks to Neil Gaiman about his books, his film, and Tori’s upcoming album. Plus we return to Tori’s official archivist to talk history.
• Articles: The place of Lucifer in Tori’s music in “Sympathy for the Devil,” the arcane inspiration of a long-awaited song in “Zero Point,” and the power of image in “She’s a Beauty Queen.”
• Reviews: A Piano—the Collection, the Scarlet’s Walk songbook, and Regina Spektor.
• PLUS regular features likes News, Expert & Ears With Feet.

For more information about this issue, back issues, or how to subscribe, visit http://www.little-blue-world.org.