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With more than 12 million albums sold and multiple Grammy and Brit Award nominations, Tori Amos is one of the most successful and influential female artists of her generation.
The first major-label artist to offer a single for download, she has had her songs turned into graphic novels, and has produced pioneering videos throughout her career.
The latest addition to Amos’s series of ground-breaking recordings, Night of Hunters, is her twelfth studio album and her first for Deutsche Grammophon.
The album is released on 26th September and will be available in standard and deluxe CD formats, as well as digital format. See below for full tracklisting.
Named after the classic 1955 film, the 21st-century song cycle takes its inspiration from classical pieces spanning the last 400 years, by composers ranging from Bach and Schubert to Granados and Satie, and marks the return of Amos’s piano to centre stage.
It is also her first studio album exclusively involving acoustic instruments. The songs are arranged for string quartet and flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon in various formations.
For the recording Amos has put together an ensemble of outstanding performers from the classical world, including the award-winning young Polish string quartet Apollon Musagète and Berlin Philharmonic principal clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer.
Written and produced by Amos, the LP carries on the tradition of variations on a theme to create a bold new work while paying tribute to the mastery of the original compositions.
The singer explained, ‘I have used the structure of a classical song cycle to tell an ongoing, modern story. The protagonist is a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship.’
‘In the course of one night she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself, allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter.’
‘One of the main themes explored on this album is the hunter and the hunted and how both exist within us.’
The musicians featured on the record are,
Bosendorfer Piano & Vocals: Tori Amos
String quartet: Apollon Musagète
Woodwind:
Andreas Ottensamer (Clarinet),
Nigel Shore (Oboe/English Horn),
Laura Lucas (Flute),
Peter Whelan (Bassoon)
Luke Whitehead (Contra Bassoon)
Additional Vocals:
Natashya Hawley as Anabelle
Kelsey Dobyns as The Fire Muse
Strings and Woodwind arranged by John Philip Shenale
Full tracklisting for Night of the Hunters:
1. Shattering Sea
2. Snowblind
3. Battle of Trees
4. Fearlessness
5. Cactus Practice
6. Star Whisperer
7. Job’s Coffin
8. Nautical Twilight
9. Your Ghost
10. Edge of the Moon
11. The Chase
12. Night of Hunters
13. Seven Sisters
14. Carry
UK LIVE DATES:
Nov 2 London, Royal Albert Hall
Nov 3 London, Hammersmith Apollo
Nov 4 Manchester, Apollo
Nov 6 Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
Nov 8 Belfast, Waterfront
Nov 9 Dublin, Grand Canal Theatre
Tickets are available from ticketmaster.co.uk
www.toriamos.com