Tori Amos' 2007 studio album

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Tori Amos chronology
TBA

Studio album by Tori Amos
Released	2007
Recorded	mid 2006 - early 2007
Genre	TBA
Length	TBA
Label	TBA
Producer(s)	TBA
A Piano: The Collection (2006)	Untitled 2007 album (2007)

Tori Amos's as yet untitled upcoming studio album will be released by the end of April, 2007. During the 2005 summer tour and in several recent interviews while promoting the career-spanning collection "A Piano", Amos has revealed cryptic details about the album.

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FBI Radio, Sydney

"I don't know where we're going next. And that usually means we're doing something quite different. But who knows? I don't know what I'm doing; I might have the harpsichord and the B3 right there with me next time." (May 9, 2005)

Tampa Bay Times

"Yes, it has direction but the songs are little embryos right now so it’s too early to say that. It’s crazy though; you hear something or see something and then all of a sudden you’re inspired by it. I am allowing myself to be completely open while I’m touring because you don’t have to write the new work. You just travel around and get these ideas and there it is." (August 7, 2005)

XM Radio, Washington

"I have a Warrior Woman inside of me that will come out on the next record." (August 24, 2005)

LiveDaily

"For the tour for "Scarlet's Walk," when I toured with them, I think we formed a language that was captured on "The Beekeeper," because that record is very much about keys and rhythm - the marriage between the bass and drums, and a piano player, in a classic jazz-combo style without the jazz. That's what I wanted. I wanted the joining of the male and the female, and I think - because we played over 150 shows on "Scarlet's Walk" together as a threesome - I was able to go write music around them. I designed these songs for the male as well as the female, not just the girl alone at her piano. Now, the next record will be totally different, and that's why - because of that moment of touring with those guys - I had to compose something of the joining of that relationship. It's funny, because Matt and I are like twins: from the same mother, but from another galaxy. Then Jon and Matt have their relationship, and then Jon and I have our own relationship, because he is so musical. He can tell Matt what I'm doing when I can't." (August 31, 2005)

Rolling Stone

"I think that this new work -- it's too early to say -- but this is a very different chapter. Certainly, since I've been a mother. You haven't really felt this Tori in a while...I didn't want [Tash] looking and hearing me and thinking, "Oh my God, that's a scary lady!" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. I'm able to explain now that the woman who comes and reads bedtime stories and hangs out with her is different than the woman who walks behind that piano. I think this is the first time she's able to differentiate that. Now that there's that buffer, there are things in the world it's time to confront. There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first -- and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring." (March 30, 2006)

AOL Music Blog

"It's a real challenge, allowing myself to not have any kind of subject limits [this time] because I was trying to protect my child. But that's not the only reason I've written what I've written and done what I've done the last five years. Now that I've addressed things coming from the mother, the minister's daughter and a sexual creature, it's time to do something else energetically. I'm not quite sure how to put it in words yet and I think it's better to let the music speak for itself." (July 6, 2006)

Matt Chamberlain's blog

"Hello - just finished tracking the new Tori Amos record out in Cornwall England. It was a really fun and intense 3 weeks of non-stop playing, eating, playing, sleeping and playing. All I can say is that it rocks! I was really excited to put my new Ludwig drums to the test and they definitely sounded really focused, subsonic, full with a nice woody tone. I tracked a few songs with some 60s era Ludwigs, some random Slingerland Radio Kings and the old trusty roundbadge Gretsch kit from the 40s really helped on a few tracks. I also got really into using Ableton Live software quite a bit, which I think is probably one of the most innovative and intuitive things out there for making long-form audio/electronic loops and phrases." (September 1, 2006)

Clash Magazine Interview

"In 2007 we'll tour again with the new record that we're working on now. The box set is the end of an era - it's very much about pulling everything together over the last fifteen years before I jump ship. You have to sense what is going on in the world - it's a really disturbing place right now. A few years ago I had more confidence that people would make the right choices for our leaders in America and they didn't. So therefore it's time to take the gloves off." (September 15, 2006)

BBC Radio 2 with Simon Mayo

(while describing A Piano) "The end of an era. The last fifteen years of my life, then I'm going to do something a little different. I've got something up my sleeve. I'm thinking of high heels and creating; my daughter is six now so she can understand that there's a Tori who can't go to school. You can't take that to school. You can take mommy to school, but there's a side that has to now go confront certain issues in America that need to be addressed. I only haven't a certain kind of bush, not the kind that would win presidency in America." (In the same interview, she hinted at the release date of April 2007 and the possiblity of a more rock-orientated album ("At 43 years old, maybe its time") (September 17, 2006) [1]

BBC 6 Music - The Music Week

"I'm in the middle (of the making the new album). I feel like Albert Einstein with my hair out to here, and I put my finger in an electric socket, and I'm editing and blowing things up, and bringing harpsichords back in and Whurleys in and out, and pianos, and, you know I'm in the middle of the mad scientist phase." (September 17, 2006) [2]

AOL Music Blog

"Though Tori Amos remains elusive about her new album, which she is currently finishing at her home studio in Cornwall, England, the minister's daughter will say she's been digging in something fierce. "I'm in the thick of it," Amos says of the follow-up to 2005's 'The Beekeeper.' "Without giving anything away, I have my high heels on. I like the way that feels."As for when fans can expect the release, Amos says she'll have "something for you to shag to by Beltane," with an extensive tour to follow." (September 18, 2006) [3]

Performer Songwriter Magazine

"It’s really, really, really challenging, and it’s pushing everybody, and that’s good. It takes many months to get it where I’m satisfied. And we’ll leave it at that. It’ll be out next year. You have to know what your theme is for each project and what it is that you’re whispering into people’s spines. I believe your spine responds to music in a way that it might not respond to visuals. That sound can reach inside you in a very primal way. I like to create these sonic resorts that people can walk into and never leave their chair. Then they can take it back into their own physical structure. Music is a mirror that lets the listener say, “I can be in the stillness in this two-bar phrase, so I can be in the stillness in my life.” And that might not seem like a lot, but this is how you expand the soul." (November 14, 2006) [4]

Albums by Tori Amos