Tori's Maze

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Cécile Desbrun — 2013-02-27T10:11:15Z

Times They Are a Changin' : A look in the rear view and toward the future with "Taxi Ride", Scarlet's Walk and the Gold Dust release "'Gold Dust' is very much about being other people and feeling how they feel and feeling how you felt at another time when you've been another place. And it really isn't your past because somehow these frames are written on your body and they've made you what you are. Nothing is gone... it's just, on your body map. And this project has been very much about finding, I (...) - Getting inspired: In the mood for chronicles

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T12:08:17Z

"'Frog On My Toe' is kind of a tribute to Poppa, my Cherokee Grand Father, who died." (Upside Down #7) - Frog on My Toe

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T12:05:57Z

Q: What other tracks will be released with the next single (Talula)? "Well, I'd like to think a live version of 'Amazing Grace', that I did in Ireland with a bunch of people that were just hangin' around in the County Cork. George and I wrote a song called 'Til the Chicken'. It's a spoof on 'Past the Mission', because 'Past the Mission' became 'Pass the Chicken'." (Upside Down #7) - Amazing Grace/'Til the Chicken

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:50:54Z

"Funny you ask," she says about Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a song she has discussed with Liza Minnelli (Judy Garland, Minnelli's mother, sang the song in the classic The Wizard of Oz). "I'm questioning that whole sentiment, the idea that the dreams you dare to dream really do come true. They might come true, but you might have some scars and wounds you take with you that they don't tell you. The rainbow isn't attained without chasing your demons and your pain." (Akron Beacon Journal, (...) - Over the Rainbow

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:37:59Z

“Yet the record isn't finished until ‘Twinkle;' it just wasn't finished until that song. That level of the flame, feeding the flame, because after all the stars, the fire, I had to go into that place of becoming that instead of trying to find it again.” (B-Side Magazine, May/June 1996) - Twinkle

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:34:03Z

“And of course ‘Damage' speaks for itself. The song, being herself damaged, it's trying to teach myself about graciousness, and I have such a hard time with that. I have a very hard time. ‘Damage' was so essential for me to sing, it's one of the most difficult ones for me. I can look and have love and feelings for some of these people but...” Tori lies back on the couch and takes a blessed moment to stare at the beige ceiling before returning to her whirling thoughts. “Again, all I can say is I (...) - Putting the Damage On

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:24:45Z

"the key for me here is he was going to show me spring. Going to... and so much of my life has been about going to. Instead of what is happening now, [it's] what are we going to? Not what are we really giving to each other now. What am I promising him? That whole idea of looking to this, the idea that somebody else carries the voodoo, instead of becoming part of the voodoo and accessing it yourself. That runs through the whole thing." (B-Side Magazine, May/June 1996) Amos begins "In the (...) - In the Springtime of His Voodoo

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:19:23Z

“Like Doughnut Song the last I worked on. There's a bitter sweet quality about it... (She sings) There's a sweetness to becoming a woman that the virgins don't have. They have a physical sweetness, but once you claim the woman... Yes I want to wring their [men's] necks sometimes - those I fall in love with - yet there's much more of an understanding.” (Making Music, January 1996) “‘Doughnut,' that's so much to me the ache of... I think one of the most important lines in the entire record for me was (...) - Doughnut Song

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:15:25Z

Q: I noticed that the lyrics aren't included for Agent Orange. Tori: There's certain times when I wanted the listener to just lay there. With “Agent Orange”, I was hoping you could see this orange-bodied muscle man, and give yourself a giggle so that we'd transform this being from a mutilated skin person to Orangina. It's the idea of becoming Tang - transmuting the chemical effect. You can't forget that happened - you can't forget the warfare. So, of course there's that level. I just had to bring (...) - Agent Orange

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Cécile Desbrun — 2012-07-25T11:09:57Z

“I had to write for my freedom. I was shattered. I had to begin to look at myself. I tried to get energy from different men in my life. I got my vampires license. In Talula I'm begging this concept of ideal woman to come alive in myself, feeling afraid of losing someone. If it matters, it must be something worth losing. Each song began to be a piece of claiming myself.” (Making Music, January 1996) “On some tracks, like ‘Talula' and ‘in The Springtime Of His Voodoo' there is actually a lot going (...) - Talula