R A F V O L

Back in August, we reported that DJ and remixer Peter Rauhofer had announced he was remixing the Gold dust version of “Flavor.”

Since then, he’s indicated that Tori likes the three remixes he’s made of the song and that he’ll be premiering it, along with several other new remixes, during the Work! Freakshow Halloween party he’ll be deejaying at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City.

If you’re not in and around NYC or the club scene is not your thing, the remix should be available in the coming weeks.

Chic Chat With Tori

As part of their Chic Chat series, Tori talked to The Outnet about her music, her style, her fashion inspirations and being in her 40s. Check it out below or on YouTube:

AfterElton.com Gives Tori The Rainbow Nod

Tori is the latest addition to AfterElton.com’s Gay Icon Nominee series, a relatively new feature of the site where they propose less known celebrities and pop culture figures to join the ranks of gay icons such as Madonna and Betty Davis.

Louis Virtel’s column, posted today, outlines five good reasons why Tori qualifies, ranging from her gay-friendly stance in the context of how she is raising her daughter to her Madonna covers.

Can’t say that we disagree with any of them though we know there are more…and pretty much think Tori already is a gay icon.

The ECHO Klassik Awards

Tori accepted the ECHO Klassik award she won for Night of Hunters at an awards ceremony tonight at the Konzerthaus in Berlin.

She was one of three artists to receive a Klassik-Ohne-Grenzen (Classical Without Borders) prize.

While she did not perform at the awards ceremony, she did present an ECHO Klassik “Nachwuchskünstlerin” (Up and Coming Artist) award to the outstanding pianist Khatia Buniatishvili for her Franz Liszt collection released last year.

The awards ceremony was broadcast on ZDF and should be archived on ZDF.de soon.

Tori was interviewed on the red carpet before the ceremony by ECHO Klassik’s Axel Brüggemann and they’ve shared a clip of it on YouTube:

Don’t forget: Tori will be one of the guests on ZDF’s Morgenmagazin morning television program. The show airs from 5:30 to 9:00 AM CEST but Klassik Akzente reports that she’ll be on during the last hour of the program.

Update Thanks to llliquidDiamonds, you can watch the portion of the ceremony where Tori receives her award on YouTube:

And when she introduces the Upcoming Artist award to Khatia Buniatishvili:

On The Catwalk With Bernard Chandran

This past Saturday was designer Bernard Chandran’s catwalk show for London Fashion Week and, having recently worn fashions designed by him in the video for “Flavor,” Tori was in attendance. Sitting right in the front row with daughter Natashya, she was hard to miss and it wasn’t long before several photos of them watching the show were making the rounds on the Internet.

Many thanks to @OggyYardanov, Nora Nona, and Paula Harrowing for sharing these shots!

Additionally, 55Factory chatted with Bernard Chandran, Lyne Renee and Tori following the show and threw the clips up on YouTube. “Tory” is the first person in the interview.

The Light Princess: Still Not Dead!

While chatting with OK! Magazine (warning: there is an auto-playing video at that page), Rosalie Craig, one of the leads in the stage production of Finding Neverland, dropped a rather juicy tidbit about the long-delayed production of The Light Princess that Tori has written the music for:

What are you up to after Finding Neverland?

Rosalie: Next year I’ll be starring in a huge musical at the National Theatre, co-written by Tori Amos and based on an 18th-century fairy tale called The Light Princess.

That’s my character, and she doesn’t have any gravity!

They’ve been developing it for years.

Last we heard, the production of The Light Princess, though delayed, was still on. Given this news, it now seems that the project will come to fruition in 2013…and it’s nice to know at least a lead actor has been selected. Definitely something to look forward to next year!

Thanks to mkgtweety for the link.

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!

Night Of Hunters Earns An Echo Klassik

The winners of the 2012 Echo Klassik awards were announced today and Tori has received a Klassik Ohne Grenzen prize — “classical without borders” aka “crossover” classical — for Night of Hunters!

This particular award is often given to several records in any given year and 2012 is no exception as the Pera Ensemble and Erwin Schrott were also recipients of this prize for their 2012 releases, Baroque Oriental and Rojotango, respectively.

This year’s awards ceremony takes place on October 14th in Berlin. Given the Gold Dust orchestral tour’s Berlin stop is on the following day, it wouldn’t come as a surprise for Tori to be in attendence for the ceremony.

Congratulations to Tori for this achievement!

A Book For Pele Redux

Remember the Boys for Pele book for Continuum Press’ 33 1/3 book series? No? Not even a little?

Well, to be honest, we’d kind of forgotten about it too so here’s a quick recap: we first got wind of it when author Elizabeth Merrick blogged that she was working on the book. Not long afterwards, Continuum included it in a forthcoming list on their blog. Then, for a long time, nothing but eerie silence…until a few weeks ago when Ms. Merrick remembered how to post to her blog and sent an update about the book into the ether.

Her post is quite interesting and worth reading all the way through so please do so but for those who want the executive summary: 1) she’s still working on the book; 2) she’s writing it in a rather novel way using brush and ink; 3) she’ll be posting the occasional anecdote and tidbit on Twitter and 4) she’s really enjoying the process!

She mentions that the book is currently slated for publication in 2013 and Amazon agrees, showing a May 2, 2013 pubdate in the States and July 4, 2013 in the UK.

Thanks to Paul for the Amazon tip…and for the reminder that we needed to post about it. (We’d updated our Twitter and Facebook the day Elizabeth posted her latest update but, for various boring reasons, sorta-kinda neglected to get this on the main site until now. Oops. Mea culpa.)

Tori to be inducted into the (NC) Music Hall of Fame

Well, lookee here. Tori will be inducted this year into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place Oct. 11, 2012 at the Gibson Mill Vintage Auto Club Conference and Events Center in Concord, NC. Tickets are $80, but before you splurge, there’s no word yet on whether Tori will actually attend or perform at the event. Other inductees this year will include R&B group Jodeci.

Thanks to Andy and mkgtweety for the tip.