Thursday, September 12, 1996
Amos jumps off cliff with Boys
Amos to grace
with piano in Erie
A piano spectacular like no other, the
Warner Theater will fill its halls with
the sounds of Tori Amos tonight.
A musician who combines her innermost
thoughts with the sounds of beautiful
piano music, Amos is like no other.
Most popularly known for her two
previous albums Little Earthquakes and
Under the Pink , Amos recently released
her latest album, Boys for Pele.
According to her, Boys for Pele is a new
chapter in which she felt ultimate
freedom.
“It feels like a new chapter, and part of
the reason for that, for the first time in
my life, there has been nobody over my
shoulder saying, ‘Why don’t you do it
this way?’ This gave me license to take
the songs wherever I instinctively felt
they shoiild go. I knew that there were
places where I’d never let myself go
musically and lyrically in the past. This
time around, I could push myself to
explore beyond those boundaries. With
this album, I finally discovered what
complete creative freedom feels like,”
she said.
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Boys for Pele is not only entirely written
by Amos, but self-produced as well
spanning it’s recording from Louisiana
to Ireland.
Amos, who could play the piano by the
age of two-and-a-half, calls herself a
freak child with really good rhythm.
“I’d be invited to parties simply because
I played the piano. I quickly realized
that I had some kind of calling. But,
just as quickly, I realized that what was
most important to me was following my
own path - and not the one that was laid
down by others.”
Composing musical scores by the age of
four, Amos went to the Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore at age five.
While there, she realized that she did
not want to conform to the concert
pianist.
She was expelled at eleven and spent
the next several years playing in the gay
bars of Washington DC and Baltimore.
Amos’ success gained momentum with
the release of her second album, Under
the Pink. "This time, Amos took the
stripped, candid emotional elements of
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her previous work and applied them to a
broader canvas, with breathtaking
results.
As with its two predecessors, the
eighteen songs that make up this latest
album are disturbing and comforting by
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At
least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it
actually sounds like might depends on what the listener brings
to the songs. But, to me, this album (Boys for Pele) sounds
like the biggest cliff yet.”
turns - reveling in the richness and
strangeness of language, delighting in
the infinite possibilities of melody,
exploring subject matter with fierce and
fearful honesty, achieving the clarity of
waking dreams and nightmares.
“My songs have always been reflective
of what is going on in my life at a
particular time,” she says. “And, if
anything, this album has been inspired
by my relationships wi|h men. A lot of
changes have taking place in this period
of time - with lovers, collaborators and
close friends. Some of those
relationships reached a crossroads, a
point beyond honor where I realized that
I was stealing fire from men. That's
what I needed to write about. But 1 had
to be on my knees before I could be
absolutely hones, before 1 could find my
own fire.
With special guest Josh Clayton-Felt,
Dicesare Engler presents Tori Amos and
her Dew Drop Inn Tour of 1996, tonight
at 7:30 p.m. at the Warner Theatre.
- Tori Amos
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