What will Tori Amos dream of at night?

May 5, 1998 Tori Amos releases his fourth solo album, “From The Choirgirl Hotel”. The lead single, “Spark”, is inspired by the first of three miscarriages that the American singer suffered before welcoming her daughter Natashya in September 2000. The album debuted in the United States, reaching fifth position in the sales charts. In the lines below we report what we wrote about that album at the time of its publication.

What will Tori Amos dream of at night? What creatures will populate his mind, what strange worlds made of algae and precious silks, of pigs and broken glass, of emerald lights and pink flesh stuck to the glass of a photocopier will emerge in her soul? Anyone expecting a simple album, after the acrobatics of “Boys for Pele”, risks being disappointed: the songs to hum on “From the Choirgirl Hotel”… are few, so much so that it is now even limiting to experience Tori Amos Experience stopping to count future hits.

Rather, those who choose Tori Amos today choose a mood, a state of mind that at times they would perhaps prefer to be more playful, at least more varied, and which instead ends up flowing away like a flow of pond water, like a slime of emotions, moods , skills and nursery melodies. It's an almost pubescent voice, it's an almost pubescent music, that awaits you in the choir girl's apartments, cloudy yet not stale, stinging yet pleasant. She may not be able to explode the crystal of the glasses from a distance, but she sure leaves some beautiful marks inside…