A definite change of style musically and in influences for Tori Amos was her twelfth studio album, "Night Of Hunters". The album consisted of rearranged classical orchestral pieces with Amos' written words and vocals added to the arrangements. Amos stated that this was creative freedom after losing new ideas for her usual electronic and rock-styled earlier music, and the album has clearly freshened her mind for new material, which is evident in her upcoming album "Unrepentant Geraldines".
"Night Of Hunters" was promoted by the singles "Carry", the main single, which was based on a rearrangement of "The Girl With The Flaxen Hair" from Claude Debussy's Préludes I, "Nautical Twilight", which was based on a re-arrangement of "Venetian Boat Song" from Felix Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words (Op 30)", and the third single "Star Whisperer" which was based on a rearrangement of Franz Schubert's "Andantino", from "Piano Sonata in A major, D 959".
For the making of the album, Tori worked with the famed Apollon Musagète string quartet, along with other artists, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's principal clarinetist, Andreas Ottensamer; and her daughter Natashya Hawley and niece Kelsey Dobyns as guest vocalists on the record.
Surprisingly, Amos did not work with her usual touring and studio band for this record, after 15 consecutive years of doing so, and the album was released internationally on a classical music label, Deutsche Grammaphon.
This was not, however, Amos' first experimentation with genres or styles unusual to her in this period of time. Her last album before the release of 2011's "Night Of Hunters" was in fact a Christmas-themed album, 2009's "Midwinter Graces".
The record was not identified as a pop or rock record, because of the album being released under a classical record label and in a classical style, almost untouched by Amos.
References:
Wikipedia contributors, "Night of Hunters," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Night_of_Hunters&oldid=601430328 (accessed April 19, 2014).
Wikipedia contributors, "Midwinter Graces," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midwinter_Graces&oldid=592262563 (accessed April 19, 2014).
Keefe, J, "Tori Amos: Night Of Hunters | Music Review", Slant Magazine, http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/tori-amos-night-of-hunters (accessed April 19, 2014).
Taken from http://lukeandhisopinionsoneverything.blogspot.com.au
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