NEW YORK Singer-songwriter Tori Amos decided it was timefor a change. Her new Atlantic Records project, "from the choirgirlhotel," sports an ensemble sound that ranges from her usual balladswith sparse piano accompaniment to full-blown productions that couldeasily rate as club hits.
"The piano's more integrated into the sound now," says Amos. "Iwanted to cut live with a band, and the piano had to hold up as oneof the players in the band. All the cuts were recorded live with adrummer, a programmer and a bass player.""From the choirgirl hotel" was recorded and mixed over severalmonths in Cornwall, England. A 200-year-old barn on a three-acreproperty was converted into a state-of-the-art recording studio forthe project, which was produced by Amos and engineered and mixed bylongtime associates Mark Hawley and Marcel van Limbeek.Amos views her first three full-length solo albums - "LittleEarthquakes" (1992), "Under The Pink" (1994), and "Boys For Pele"(1996) - as a "trilogy" that established her as a piano-drivencomposer whose songs shone more for their stark beauty than for theirarrangements. For "choirgirl," however, Amos wanted to move to newsonic territory."I'd taken the `girl and the piano' thing as far as I could, andI really wanted to be a player with other players," says Amos. "Itwas very important for my growth as a musician to play with othermusicians instead of having them play around me."Amos says she is excited by her current club tour, which stopsat the Park West tonight. She's seen in a new light to fans who areaccustomed to seeing Amos in more stripped-down settings. "I'm readyto bring all the records together live and play some of the old musictoo, now live, in this way," says Amos.Following the club engagements, Amos will begin a two-year worldtour in the U.K. that will hit various points in Europe. Then shewill play the United States during the summer season.
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