Under The Pink (Remastered) Tori Amos

• 1 Pretty Good Year 03:25
• 2 God 03:58
• 3 Bells For Her 05:20
• 4 Past The Mission 04:05
• 5 Baker Baker 03:20
• 6 The Wrong Band 03:03
• 7 The Waitress 03:09
• 8 Cornflake Girl 05:06
• 9 Icicle 05:47
• 10 Cloud On My Tongue 04:44
• 11 Space Dog 05:10
• 12 Yes, Anastasia 09:33
• Total Runtime 56:40

Info for Under The Pink (Remastered)

It's been a long time since an artist as quirky and defiantly personal as pianist-vocalist Tori Amos exploded upon the pop charts. With her debut effort „Little Earthquakes“, Amos avoided popular trends and convenient pigeonholes: all at once she evokes an era of thrush-like sopranos, folkish confessionals, and daring new wave artists. The resulting music on her second Atlantic release, „Under The Pink“, is brimming over with innocence and sensuality, spirituality and heresy. That she is able to confront all of these contradictions, let alone try to resolve them, makes for remarkably powerful music.

In fact, „Under The Pink“ owes much of its potency to the feeling that we're watching Amos grow up before our very eyes. The daughter of a Methodist preacher, Tori Amos was a child prodigy on the piano, gifted with an exceptionally quick ear and a solid rhythmic feel. However, while pursuing her formal studies, she ran dead up against the rigidity of classical protocol, and her teachers tried to break her rather than channel her talents. Some of the emotional push and pull of this early artistic catharsis peeps through in the way Amos and co-producer Eric Rosse approach the multiplicity of piano sounds which inhabit „Under The Pink“--sounds which symbolize the many feminine rites of passage depicted throughout the album.

There are the child-like, half-remembered musings of 'Bells For Her' and 'Icicle' ('I think the good book is missing some pages'), and the vigorous attack of 'The Waitress,' 'Cornflake Girl' and 'God' ('God sometimes you just don't come through/Do you need a woman to look after you'). Here Amos' sense of alienation, rage and betrayal is echoed in offbeat rock textures and swooping vocal refrains suggesting the work of fellow traveller Kate Bush on THE DREAMING. Elsewhere, her vibrant vocal range and lush harmonies suggest early Joni Mitchell and even the ethnic-new age melange of Enya. The characters in her songs, however, are neither flower children nor navel gazers, but strong, vulnerable women coming to terms with their needs and longings in an often chilly world. „Under The Pink“ maps the inner journey of post-modern women and signals the arrival of a singular new singer-songwriter.

„This extraordinary album was quite different from its predecessor, Little Earthquakes. It was finally titled Under The Pink, after another title - God With A Big G - was contemplated and rejected. Propelled by the early January release of the anxiously awaited new single Cornflake Girl, Tori went straight to number one in the UK. The album was recorded in New Mexico and Los Angeles; strings were added in Los Angeles and mixed in London.“

'More difficult and ambitious than her critically acclaimed debut, the core of 'Under the Pink' reveals the strong, stark presence of a compelling singer-songwriter at her piano.' (AMG)

Under The Pink was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.

Tori Amos, vocals, piano
Trent Reznor, vocals
Steve Caton, guitar
John Wittenberg, violin
Chris Reutinger, violin
Ezra Killinger, violin
Francine Walsh, violin
Michael Allen Harrison, violin
Nancy Roth, violin
Cynthia Morrow, viola
John Acevedo, viola
Jimbo Ross, viola
Nancy Stein-Ross, cello
Melissa 'Missy' Hasin, cello
Dane Little, cello
John Philip Shenal, strings
Carlo Nuccio, drums
Paulinho Da Costa, percussion
Eric Rosse, programming
Paul McKenna, programming

Recorded fromFebruary - October 1993 at The Fishhouse, New Mexico and Westlake Studios, LA
Engineered by Eric Rosse
Produced by Tori Amos, Eric Rosse

Digitally remastered

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