Posts tagged with "Night of Hunters"
TORI AMOS
TORI AMOS
Turning ancient sounds into a modern soundtrack for “cataclysmic change”
Although Tori Amos studied at Johns Hopkins University’s elite Peabody Conservatory of Music in Maryland for five years as a child, classical music had long since been a thing of the past for the singer, songwriter and pianist who rose to fame in the 1990s with alt-rock hits like “Cornflake Girl,” “God” and “Silent All These Years.” That is, until...
TORI AMOS
TORI AMOS
Night of Hunters
[Deutsche Grammophon]
After a couple of missteps, Tori Amos gets back on track with Night of Hunters, a 14-song cycle that finds her adapting the music of classical composers to her own symbolism-packed mythical tale of a relationship gone sour. Throughout the course of her 11th studio effort—set to variations of works from Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy, among others—Amos examines relationship recovery...