Gold Dust To See Japanese Release

In a somewhat out-of-the-blue development, Gold Dust will be released in Japan by Universal Music on March 6, 2013.

According to the various online retailers which are listing it, the release will be a SHM-CD (Super High Material CD), a compact disc format that is compatible with regular CD player but purported to sound better on playback. More importantly, it will, as is often the case with Japanese releases, include bonus tracks. Specifically, it will include both “Snow Angel” and “Maybe California,” previously only available as bonus tracks for the digital download editions of the album on Amazon and iTunes.

The release can be pre-ordered from various Japanese retailers including Amazon, CD Japan, HMV and Tower.

Thanks to Yuta for the news about this release!

Joe Jackson Publishes His Interviews With Tori

Music journalist Joe Jackson, who Toriphiles should recognize as the person behind some of Tori’s most revealing and intriguing interviews over her career, has e-published the texts of four of conversations with her in Tori Amos: Soul Searching and Uncensored.

The unexpurgated interviews, published in The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and magazines globally, are joined in the ebook by Joe’s 2010 piece for The Independent, My Spirit Walk With Tori Amos, in which he reminisces about his history with Ms. Amos.

The e-book is available in a plethora of formats from Smashwords and from Amazon for the Kindle.

Note: Jackson’s website, to which we linked in our article about the Spirit Walk article, is seemingly no longer active. However, he is active on Facebook and Twitter if you are so-inclined to keep up with his activities.

Rock'n'Reel Interview (January/February 2013)

The January/February issue (#37) of R2 Magazine (Rock’n‘Reel), with The Dropkick Murphys on the cover, features an interview with Tori.

The article is not online but you should be able to pick up a copy of the issue in shops through The United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium or The Netherlands or purchase the back issue online once the next issue is published.

We’ll be tracking down a copy of this issue soon as we can but if anyone has already seen it, please let us know if there’s anything new there-in or if it follows the same pattern as other Gold Dust-era interviews.

Oops...

…guess the world didn’t end after all. Was wondering why the Undented Dork Posse Apocalypse-o-Bunker 5000’s generator never switched on. Damn you, Mayans!!!

It's The End Of The World (As We Know It)

So as we all know, the world is going to end tomorrow, Friday, December 21. (If the world doesn’t end, it’s Winter Solstice. But come on … the world is going to end.)

To mark the occasion, Char Manley and Lisa Ridlon will be hosting a virtual “End Of The World” Tori concert on Twitter.

@ToriAmosArizona Twitter
Friday, December 21, 2012
10:30pm Eastern / 7:30pm Pacific

Wouldn’t you like the spend your last moments on earth hanging with other Toriphiles in cyberspace? Sure, you would! So say goodbye to loved ones and bring yourself on over there Friday night. You don’t even need to comb your hair.

See you there!

Oh Yeah, The Light Princess...

Concrete details about the forthcoming The Light Princess musical are still elusive but, as The Stage reported today, it’s still firmly on The National Theatre’s radar for 2013.

The Stage indicates being told by a theatre spokesman that a production slot later next year is still being settled upon and that additional details and dates will be coming in the new year. The Stage also adds that Marianne Elliott, as has been previously reported, is still directing the performance.

So, nothing really new about the musical except an indication of when we should expect to hear about The National’s plans for the production.

Let's Bench Hunger!

Hungerthon 2012, the annual campaign to raise funds for WhyHunger, an organization working to end hunger and poverty in the United States and across the world, is well underway.

This year’s campaign includes a celebrity auction featuring a plethora of auction items and experiences donated by musicians, athletes, and other personalityes that you can bid on at CharityBuzz, including a piano bench signed by Tori Amos.

The auction continues until Thursday, December 13th at 4:20PM Eastern so if you’d like to add this to your home furnishings — and support a great cause in the process — you’ve got a few days to consider doing so!

And even if you don’t want to bid on the bench, consider making a donation to help out this worthy effort.

Last.fm Originals Talks To Tori

Back in the Fall, Tori stopped by the New York City offices of Last.fm and spoke to them about Gold Dust, touring and the life and meaning of songs. Video of the interview was posted was finally on Last.fm’s Originals earlier weekend. Check it out below:

V Magazine Interview (December 2012)

Backstage, just before I’m about to go on, my husband will say to me, ‘Look after my wife,’ and I tell him that he’ll get her back after the show. He is my sound engineer—his hands have been on my faders since 1994. It’s funny, I’m a wife and a mom, but Tori Amos—the person onstage—is sovereign. She’s something different.

The Winter 2012/13 issue of V Magazine includes this interview with Tori, as long as this new photograph of her, taken by Amy Troost. Conducted earlier in the year, the interview pre-dates October’s concerts but covers more material than just Gold Dust and touring with an orchestra, delving into the psychology of performance and the new reality of the music industry as well.

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Brisbane Times Interview (December 9, 2012)

Through the death of my brother, Michael, I realised that mortality is a real thing. Before he died, I didn’t think about mortality in the same way. It woke me up in a way to see just how fragile life is and how important it is to let the people you love know that all the time.

Tori discusses the men in her life and what she knows about them in this little piece that appeared in the December 9th edition of The Brisbane Times.

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