[santorio]

TORI AMOS
FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL
(ATLANTIC)
Released: May 1998
Chart: UK No.6 / US No.5

• Spark
• Cruel
• Black-Dove (January)
• Raspberry Swirl
• Jackie's Strength
• iieee
• Liquid Diamonds
• She's Your Cocaine
• Northern Lad
• Hotel
• Playboy Mommy
• Pandora's Aquarium

Non-album b-sides:

• Bachelorette
• Do It Again
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
• Purple People

The songs usually dictate what I’m going to do. When they started coming, I was trying to get through a bad patch. I was pregnant at the end of the Pele tour, and was very... we were over the moon about it. And I miscarried at almost three months, and it was a really difficult time. So the songs started coming not long after I miscarried. The strange thing is, the love doesn’t go away for this being that you’ve carried. You can’t go back to being the person you were before you carried life. And yet you’re not a mother, either, and you still are connected to a force, a being. And I was trying to find ways to keep that communication going. Along the way on the search, sort of walking with the undead, I would run into these songs. The one thing they kept saying to me was I had to find a deep woman’s rhythm. You’re sort of in no man’s land as a woman having carried life but lost it - and yet you’re still alive. I was pregnant and I miscarried at almost three months last Christmas. But people thought that was a subtext to the record, and they were getting this so wrong that I decided to talk about it. I just wanted to really have the pregnancy and not rush into doing more music, but when the miscarriage happened, the songs just started to come. I went through many different stages. I couldn’t be the person I was before I carried life, but I’m not a mother, so I was in no man’s land. But there was still a deep connection to this being; the soul and the love doesn’t go. This record is about life force.







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