Although it wasn’t released commercially until June of ‘99 on the benefit album called “No Boundaries,” Merman has been floating around since the spring of ‘98. If you pre-ordered ‘from the choirgirl hotel’ from Tower Records you were given access to it, and then in March of ‘99 a2b Music created a special Grammy Showcase page featuring the song.
Tori says of the song: “It’s inspired by a man with integrity, such deep integrity that I married him. It’s about having someone heal your whole life … When I was touring & Matthew Shepard got murdered I was dedicating it to him. A lot of guys were asking me to sing it for him and it just kinda took a life on of its own.”
Mountain was Scarlet’s first B-side. This true journey-woman’s song was initially made available at Tori’s site, Scarlet’s Web, via album insert code - and has still not been made available in any form other than a digital download. A big thanks to Michael Cordova for letting us showcase his art!
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 12:39 PMNever Seen Blue is sharp, full of imagery - the blues he drives, her pretty silver gown, the red lines and the red he proudly wears. It’s a song she said was written about Mark (“he’s no white knight - the same guy that I’m not supposed to talk about”) - whoever she’s speaking to, he certainly seems to pierce her to her core
… in and around and through me again ….
ermahgerd guys, our first torisongs animation! >.<
(from the blood roses intro for mtv unplugged)
tori amos - upside down (live, from Tori’s 1992 concert in Frankfurt, Germany)
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:35 PM
One of the big tasks was creating the surreal skies that were key to the look the director wanted to achieve. These were painted on the massive backdrop on set and using inferno I extended the skies past ceiling. The painted backdrop had no real life to it so I also had to imbue motion into using live action cloud footage and by warping the existing painted backdrop.
The wolf in the video had to appear massive. This was done for some shots using a miniature set within which the wolf appeared to be twenty feet tall. In other shots it was isolated and reintroduced into shots of a smaller scale, with appropriate non-existent shadows, in Inferno. It also had to appear to be mouse-sized as it enters the house. In a similar fashion, camera angles were matched for shots of different scale and integrated.
from Robert Moggach’s website - more here
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM
tori amos
happiness is a warm gun
originally by the beatles, 1968
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM
