Fade To Red: The Tori Amos Video Collection
Over a dozen of Tori Amos’ videos, from the abstract, low-budget visualizations of the songs from her breakout first album to the much more conventional, Hollywood-ified videos of her mid-1990s stint in the mainstream limelight, to more subdued recent efforts, are collected here, along with a couple of videos rarely seen in the U.S. and a running audio commentary with Tori herself talking about the genesis of both the songs and their videos.
Ever since her solo debut with 1991’s Little Earthquakes album, Tori Amos has embraced the medum of the music video, often taking a visually sparse approach. In fact, Little Earthquakes had its own “video album” released about a year after the album itself, featuring the videos from that album (many of them in a somewhat similar thematic vein) directed by Cindy Palmano, interspersed with interview segments and concert footage. Tori is no stranger to music video, either short-form or long-form. (more…)