Tori Amos' home studio, Martian Engineering
- “Imagine that you have been able to let yourself into this fascinating architectural space but you’re in only one room and you do not know how to get to the other rooms because as of now there are no doorways. It becomes like a sonic puzzle. Sometimes it takes months for me to find my way around a song, because I have to find harmonic code, but once I do the song seems to let me into another room. This doorway has been put in place by the song itself. The structures already exist. I’m just interpreting them. Now, can I trick the songs by writing them and imprinting them with any architecture I want? No, but I can trick myself. The songs, though, will never resonate the way they were intended to unless I work with them to crack their codes.”
- - Tori Amos, on songwriting in the book Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
Received this Tori Amos book a few years ago and thought it would be silly, but most of it totally resonates with me. Just thinking about the record, listening to the mixes and then listening harder to know what should stay and what should go. There’s one song that hasn’t yet found its way and it might need to be put aside for now…it’s a bit of a sad but relieving realization.
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Umm… Hi! Am I allowed to write a comment here? Are you talking about the song that I think you’re talking about? I think the Jer Bear may have possibly told me something about this. Is it the song that starts with the line about the convent? The song that Jer and I have written an alternate version of that’s more about coke and weed? Is it called Faithful? Because that song is awesome! Your version, of course.
Thanks Max! You’re a dear. You’re always allowed to comment.
You mean “Let’s Get High?” Someone get me a djembe and some autotune, we’ll make this happen right now!
Reeemix!!
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