News: New Details On Tori's Part In The Bullitts

A while back, we mentioned that Tori was contributing to a project from producer Jeymes Samuel called The Bullitts. The album, They Die By Dawn And Other Short Stories, features Tori along with Lucy Liu, Roisin Murphy, Passion Pit, and Mos Def.

Loudandquiet.com has a new interview with Samuel where he describes the process of making the album, which tells the story of Amelia Sparks, a lonely, angry woman who goes on a revenge mission and winds up on death row.

Here’s what the article has to say about Tori’s part in the project:

The only artist not immediately spellbound by the producer’s charms was Tori Amos – one of Samuel’s all-time favourites – and a notoriously private, introverted character.

“Tori Amos was hard,” says Samuel, nodding slowly. “At first she was like, ‘No, I’m not doing any collaborations.’” Instead of retreating defeated, he wrote her a letter. He told her about how, when he was a young boy running around with the other “runts” on his housing estate, he was the only one of his friends into her music. “They’d look at me as a weirdo for being into Tori Amos,” he says, shrugging. “I explained that to Tori and asked her to let me be that bridge between her world and the Harrow Road. She totally understood it. Obviously it was music contingent as well but she understood where I was coming from.”

Apparently, Samuel is planning some live performances of the material, and is doing his best to make sure Tori is involved there, too:

“For the live aspect I’m bringing out every gun in the arsenal,” he says, “even if I have to handcuff them myself. Tori Amos, Mos Def, Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu, Idris Alba – I’m bringing out everyone, but I’m going to take it further.”

For more details, click on over to Loudandquiet.com. Thanks to joe for the link!