We Haz A Flavor!

“Flavor,” the lead track from Tori’s forthcoming album Gold Dust, is now streaming on ToriAmos.com! Featuring The Metropole Orkest under the direction of Jules Buckley, this is a new, orchestral arrangement of the song originally released on the album Abnormally Attracted to Sin.

Check it out on ToriAmos.com or below…

Additional Gold Dust DVD Details From Decca

Based on JB HiFi’s listing, we already had a clear understanding of the contents of the DVD included in the Gold Dust deluxe edition. However, Decca Records has shed a little more light on it in their catalog entry for the release, including a more complete track listing along with times for each:

1. Flavor 04:23
2. Gold Dust 06:18
3. Behind The Scenes Of Flavor 04:03
4. Credits 01:35

So, it looks like the behind the scenes footage is solely for the “Flavor” video as opposed to, say, the whole album. Additionally, it’s worth noting that the tracks and times for the CD in the deluxe edition are identical to those in the regular release, at least according to Decca.

Thanks to EarWithFeet for alerting us to this update on Decca’s site!

About Those Tour Dates...

As many will recall, the early Gold Dust press indicated that an extremely limited number of orchestral concerts would take place in Europe and the US. However, any mention of US shows was later removed from the official site, the album site, etc., giving many pause about the possibility of those shows. Subsequently, we’ve gotten more than a few inquiries about when North American dates on the Gold Dust Orchestral Tour would be announced.

Unfortunately, we’ve gotten confirmation, presumably due to some combination of cost and logistics, that there will be no additional orchestral dates, either in North America or Europe. The five European shows that have been announced — Rotterdam, Brussels, London, Warsaw and Berlin, for which tickets are already on sale — will be the only shows Tori will be doing with an orchestra to support the record.

Needless to say, we’re disappointed to both hear and report this news. Hopefully at least some of those waiting for North American dates will be able to go to Europe…and before anyone asks, we’ve heard nothing about the possibility of a solo tour.

Tori Shares "The First Time" With BBC on Sunday

On Sunday, Tori will appear on BBC6’s “The First Time,” an online-only radio show hosted by Matt Everitt. During the hour-long program, she will discuss “her early musical influences, her love of Joni Mitchell and classical music. She also remembers being allowed to see Elton John for the first time, aged 11; her relationship with her father who was a minister; how she dealt with the pressures of fame; and reveals what, and who, inspires her to make music.”

The program kicks off at noon GMT; listeners elsewhere should be able to stream it online or listen to the broadcast afterward. Thanks to Melissa and Kelly for sending this in.

So, About That Video Shoot...

At the end of the spring, Tori was spotted in several places around New York city — and more than a few photographs were snapped by curious on-lookers — but it wasn’t completely clear what was being done. The general consensus, based on a casting call posted on a talent website, was that there was a video being shot though, once the Gold Dust gallery with photographs by Danielle Levitt was posted on ToriAmos.com, some wondered if it had actually been a photo shoot.

However, all is made more clear now courtesy of a post on Danielle Levitt’s Tumblr: it was a video shoot and she’s producing a video for “Flavor.” As she says,

“We had a lot of Fun on set with Tori and her team. We spent 2 days running around NYC from Brooklyn to Chinatown, to West Village, to Washington Sq Park …having all sorts or crazy adventures from skaters, gospel women from Harlem, drag queens, break dancers, sexy motorcycle men, club kids, a transcendentalist, and 2 very adorable little girls, to make the most epic New York centric video!!!!!!!

“Can’t wait to premiere it.”

There’s no word when the video will be shared but as we wind down towards the release of Gold Dust at the beginning of October, we expect it’ll pop out sooner than later.

Happy Blogday, Tori!

NME’s Lucy Jones ties together Tori’s birthday and the current political and cultural environment in her post of today on the NME blog, Why We Need Tori Amos’ Outspoken Feminism More Than Ever. Drawing together the threads Pussy Riot, Todd Akin, and George Galloway, Jones presents the themes and messages in Tori’s music as well as her activist roles in founding RAINN and speaking out against sexual assault to make the point that Tori is as relevant today as when she burst onto the music scene twenty years ago.

On the other hand, taking a more personal approach, which we would expect many fellow Toriphiles share, blogger Mary reflects on the significance of Tori on her music in her life. Many thanks to her for sending us the link — and if you have a similar creation to share in honor of Tori’s birthday, please send them in and we’ll append them to this article.

Happy Birthday, Tori!

We here at Undented are physically in the United States and temporally towards the back-side of the International Date Line so it’s still August 21st as this article was written. However, most of the rest of the world — from Oceania to New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe — have already turned their daytimers over to August 22nd, so we feel safe in wishing the happiest of birthdays to Tori — even if we are jumping the gun a few hours here in the New World!

And, by the way, if you’re still in the mood this Thursday and looking for a suitable way to continue celebrating, we suggest tuning your radio or your media player to WBWC as Tori will be the only artist they play all day for the penultimate installment of their Summer Marathon Series series. Tune in at 7:00 AM EDT at 88.3 FM in the Cleveland, Ohio area or their livestream and you’ll hear nothing but Tori’s music all day long. Thanks to Danielle C. for the tip!

"Trippin' Triffin" in New Tori Video

MTV recently visited the Gathering of the Vibes festival in Connecticut, where they bumped into a man named Eric Triffin, or “Trippin’ Triffin,” as many call him. They report that he “is an amazing dancer who will be appearing in an upcoming Tori Amos video directed by Danielle Levitt, who first met him while shooting a book on happiness.”

Triffin seems like a pretty interesting guy, who has held close to the hippie aesthetic since the 1960s. In addition to being a retired professor and health director, he likes to dress up as vegetables to promote healthy eating.

At any rate, we don’t know which song he’ll be in the video for, but considering the only one that’s been announced so far is “Flavor,” that seems a safe bet. Maybe it’ll be a carrot “Flavor,” this time:

ToriAmos.com Opens The Gold Dust Gallery

A new gallery for Gold Dust has been added to ToriAmos.com, featuring four photographs from “the Gold Dust photoshoot.”

Two of these photographs we’ve already seem, as posted on Girlie Action, but two are new. All, of course, are taken by Danielle Levitt. Check ‘em out!

Gold Dust Update: New Promo Photos, Track Times, Possible Press

Today brings a number of Gold Dust odds and sods which we’re rounding up in one article. Hopefully this will be the first of many such posts as we draw closer to the album’s release at the start of October.

First, Girlie Action, who handles Tori’s press, television and media relations, has added a new biography and two new promotional photos to their client page for her on their website. Be warned though: when we tried accessing their website, we got a warning about it being infected with a trojan horse so you might want to shy away from their site for the time being. Thumbnails of the new images are below; click on them for very high-resolution versions images of the images from Girlie Action’s website (direct links to images bypass that trojan so those are safe to view). Both images were taken by Danielle Levitt, the same photographer who shot the Gold Dust cover photo.

Second, Decca Records has updated their artist page for Tori. In addition to adding the motorcycle image to the page header, albeit in a smaller, lower-resolution form than the ones from Girlie Action, they’ve also added track times for the songs on Gold Dust. To wit:

1. Flavor 04:08
2. Yes, Anastasia 04:17
3. Jackie’s Strength 04:32
4. Cloud On My Tongue 04:23
5. Precious Things 04:44
6. Gold Dust 05:45
7. Star of Wonder 03:46
8. Winter 05:45
9. Flying Dutchman 06:21
10. Programmable Soda 01:27
11. Snow Cherries From France 03:01
12. Marianne 04:08
13. Silent All These Years 04:33
14. Girl Disappearing 04:06

Finally, Amazon.com has added listings for the regular and deluxe editions of Gold Dust — you may remember they were previously on Amazon.co.uk but not on Amazon.com. Curiously, the two listings are flagged as “imports,” but both have a release date of October 2nd, the release date for the US and Canada and their prices, while a little on the high side, aren’t quite import prices either. So, we tend to think these are probably the domestic releases, just mislabeled.

Update: Yup, the import tags have been removed from both listings.

In any case, what’s more interesting about the listings is the “editorial review” which reads suspiciously like PR for the album, including a few quotes from Tori as well some insight into the selection of songs included on Gold Dust. The copy on Amazon is all one monolithic block of text so we’ve reproduced it after the jump, with our best guesses as paragraph breaks. Check it out!

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