Tori Amos: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit - stripped-down sets, an intimate setting - just a different space.
Ann Powers | February 2, 2022
Tori Amos' Tiny Desk (home) concert debut takes place in what looks like close quarters. The singer-songwriter whose music has served as a beacon for so many listeners during her thirty-year career sits at her beloved Bosendorfer piano with a star-embellished Wurlitzer at her back. On a nearby shelf is a stack of books; one is Suzanne Simard's classic of forest ecology, Finding the Mother Tree. As Amos begins "Baker Baker," a fan favorite from her 1994 album Under the Pink, her bell-like voice fills the room. It's easy to imagine she's in a lighthouse on the cliffs of Cornwall instead of the state-of-the-art home studio where her husband, engineer Mark Hawley, ensures that the mix will be perfect. This three-song performance shows Amos both alone and reaching out, casting sonic beams to guide us in the dark.
The other two songs Amos offers are from her characteristically fearless, self-interrogating, soul-integrating 2021 album Ocean to Ocean. Her renditions of the title track and "29 Years" are magnetic, but what really makes this set a treat is the commentary she shares before each song. Talking about the growing she's done during lockdown - learning about the climate crisis, confronting her own long-buried trauma - Amos reveals why she remains so beloved. She still knows how to make the most private and even inchoate feelings accessible. Hers is a lighthouse that welcomes the traveler in for a heart-to-heart exchange.
SET LIST
"Baker Baker"
"Ocean to Ocean"
"29 Years"
MUSICIANS
Tori Amos: vocals, keyboard
CREDITS
Video: Dave Meyers
Audio: Mark Hawley
Assistant Engineer: Adam Spry
Recorded at Martian Engineering, Cornwall UK
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Maia Stern
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Bobby Carter, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
#toriamos #nprmusic #tinydesk
How come she is not in the Hall of Fame already? She's in a class by herself. A legend. A force. She changed music for hundreds of musicians that came after her. Every time I watch a live performance I am always left with this thought- she's musical perfection.
A friend took me to see her perform in the early 90's at a 200 seat recital hall just before Little Earthquakes came out. I was in the second row, about 10' from her, eye level, and she delivered most of LE and many of the b-sides (Sugar, etc.) that would become the soundtrack to my life. Just tore me open, I was never the same after that. Hearing these songs all for the first time - LIVE, before some of them were even recorded - was incredible, every song a complete world unto itself. And her stories between songs, of course... And the room was completely SILENT while she played, which was never true on any later tour, unfortunately. Still the greatest concert of my life. Thank you Tori. I'm so grateful to have been alive while you are!
She knows how to tell a story, and not a shallow story, but deep, difficult, emotionally evocative stories about things that most people don't want to talk about, much less hear about.
The way she plays piano is immediately recognizable by those familiar with even just a few of her songs. She plays with passion and, at times, almost possession.
Her entire oeuvre is really quite extraordinary. There is no one like her, that's for sure. She plays gorgeously and there is a soothing, almost "safe" sound to her voice? I'm not even sure what that means exactly because I've never described someone's voice as "safe". It is different than 'reassuring".
She really is an amazingly talented artist, storyteller, and musician. I suppose if I had to describe her to someone 15 years older, or 15 years younger (than me), I might say Tori Amos is the Joni Mitchell of my/our generation.
Beautiful thanks for sharing 🤍
♥️ she’s one of my favourite artists.I saw her live some years ago in the Auditorium in Rome, but I would have been in the room you are talking about…It seems to me that the time you are talking about is one of the last beautiful time for music and art, but unfortunatly I was only 2 years old..As a songwiter too I can say that I would like to go back to the 90s!!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful experience!!
What a gift, to see her when she was truly just a girl and her piano.
U r so right about how the crowd was SO quite...saw her at Maine Center for the Arts in 93 or 94...I was blown away...I remember looking around at the crowd to see if I was the only one b n seduced by her Music and presence...I wasn't...the entire crowds jaws were dropped too the floor🌼✌
When she's gone, no one will come close to replacing her.
true but not the first and not the last. she knows.
Honestly, the best pianist in the industry. Her musicality, and her ability to make the piano sound as if she has four hands playing is incredible. An extraordinary talent.
Her piano is an extension of her, and she is extraordinary at performing with it
It's extraordinarily hard to have a piano style instantly distinct from all other pianists on earth. It's also hard to have a voice instantly distinct from all other voices. Somehow, Tori has both. About as original and singular as musicianship gets.
If you listen closely to keyboardists, all have a "distinct" sound even when performing the same piece. I am a fan of players like Lyle Mays, Chick Corea, Keith Emerson, George Duke, you can hear a familiarity in all of their styles. I always like Tori,'s sound, and vocals, and her mastery, and also the great mic setup on her piano here, makes the performance here stunning.
Well said
What a lovely description. There is no one like her.
Started crying as soon as I heard the first line "baker, baker". Heard this song 10.000 times already in my life, but sometimes songs come back with this renewed enchantment, unexpectedly.
For me it is Past the Mission.
I had the same reaction. She's been a constant companion since I was sixteen years old. The soundtrack of my life.
omg me too
i've been thinking about this. my whole life has passed by with "honey" being played at every stage
Just looking at her gets me emotional
I met Tory Amos in 1998 at Caines ballroom in Tulsa Oklahoma, I was able to get backstage from a friend who's dad knew the owner, I was so star stuck to be in her presence. She came over and spoke to me like I was the only person left in the world, she genuinely cared about what I had to say. I have never in my whole life felt so important.... I rode that high for years and years. I could be having a horrible day and would rememberer how I felt at that moment and my day would instantly get better. This kindness is not only rare amongst the famous but everyday people. The world is a much better place with her in it.
That's a lovely thing to hear x
Nice!😌
I was at that show in Tulsa too in 1998. I was 18🍒🍹🍓💕
@@fuchsialarosa411 Crazy.... I was 17 and went to Edison High.
@@fuchsialarosa411 Where did you go to school at ?
She is a VIRTUOSO in the Piano... and as a Composer also a GENIUS.... Hope she comes to PERU one day....Greetings amigos
oooo, THIS improv piano intro to 'Baker' switches on a light i haven't seen for a spell, ugh. God, i've loved her into my middle age.
Gave birth to my son with Under the Pink playing....he is soon to be 27....thank you Tori 💜
Which song was playing at the magic moment?
Pretty Good Year? Baker, Baker? God? Bells for Her *8^)
The term 'icon' is used a lot these days, sometimes wrongly so. But Tori truly is an absolute icon.
A piano prodigy! Thank heavens she dropped-out from music school & shared her pop sensibilities to the world! Rock on Tori!
Tori Amos, Annie Lennox and Kate Bush are a few of my favorite storyteller singers.
No one can make me feel the way Tori can after decades and decades. I had chills from the first note. That intro is everything. Thank you always, Tori.
And here I am, watching my teenage crush playing the piano. I'm from Spain, I didn't speak a word at that time, I had never seen her, not a picture; I was just amazed, flabbergasted at how could somebody create such a deep, universal beauty. Imagine, without understanding a single word, just knowing that nobody could sing like this if not feeling whatever they were saying with all their heart.
Beautiful 🤍💙💖
My favorite female artist of all time
She is touching deeper emotions than any singer I know
My God, this woman's music still has a profound effect on me 30 some years later
I’ve loved Tori since I was 12. She’s taught me so much about religion, being a powerful women, our connection to nature. Her songs and use of piano always leaves me with goosebumps.
Same here! And this is just beyond appreciation
I mean, I love her music, but her ideas about religion are dubious at best, at least based on her lyrics ^^
@@bluesdealer or they’re a lot more accurate than most people want to admit
@@razrv3lc nah
Cannot wait for ATL in June,2023! J’adore 🌊🌊🌊💜💜💜
This version of Baker is gorgeous. What a joy to see Tori performing after so long.
My absolute favorite musical artist of all time. It’s all I listened to as a teenager. She got me through everything. At 20 I got to see her live. It was phenomenal.
She pulled out all the stops here. A haunting piano intro on Baker Baker, dual keyboards on Ocean to Ocean and the Leslie amp on 29 Years…plus a nice fallboard thump at the end to top things off. We’ve missed you Tori!
💜
YESSSSSSS🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Thank you! Was wondering what that was… whether a performance bit of flair or functional, to stop the ringing out of the chords (I suspected the latter). Missed her, too! Great to have her back.
@@jonathanoneill8011 she's used the Leslie cabinet on tour quite a bit! It's also used on Beauty Queen/Horses on Boys for Pele - she's mentioned in interviews how she got her recording team in a mad dash to find a Leslie when she was recording the song in Ireland.
She managed to take nothing away from the song, and through her added piano moments, reveal everything I never knew it was hiding. This song is brand new, like when I heard it 28 years ago
Yes! She has the amazing ability to do this time and time again.
A Masterclass in singing / songwriting. A truly incredible artist still searching for ways to tell her truth 29 years later. Humblingly extraordinary. Total Love and Respect.
Double keyboards is Expert Mode too.
Hearing that voice again made me so emotional, love you Tori
Tori Amos.
A woman who has had immeasurable influence in my little life. I was at the Under the Pink show in LA at the Pantages in the Summer of 1994. I was 16 years old. In and through the chaos of my youth, nobody was with me the way she was.
Thank you.
No life is little. We all need to do the best we can, hopefully without harming anyone, or the planet. You'll do what you need to do, dear unmet friend.
Woke up to news of her tour, bought tickets to see her in the spring and then came to UA-cam and found this. What a day. 29 years is incredible.
Nice! Enjoy! Sadly, she won’t be in my area this time around 😞
Same! 4th concert coming up!
30 years after Little Earthquakes.... she's still way up there for me. Love her again after her latest release ❤
Very much the same 🖤
Yikes! I’m old!!?!! It’s been 30 years???
The tenderness Tori shows the Bosendorfer and the Wurlitzer after Baker Baker and Ocean to Ocean, and then the sudden slap after the catharsis of 29 Years, like "Thanks, you got me." That hit hard. Thanks Tori and NPR for this beautiful session. After 10 years without a Tori live experience I'm looking forward to two shows in March. Like so many others, T changed my life, educated me, guided me, comforted me. "So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts, what's so amazing about really deep thoughts, boy you best pray I bleed real soon, how's that thought for you?" - everything changed after hearing that on the radio in 1991. Thank you Tori.
I've got chills. Her music has accompanied some of the most meaningful times in my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ❤️
Exactly the same!!
Ikr? I don't think I would have made it through the 90's without her.
Incredibly motivating and intensely an introspective set for me and anyone to hear.Thanks Tori.
we all can channel the spirit source .... Tori seems to do it efforelessly.
I am glad to see all of the tori fans here. I have been with her for almost half of my life
Until today I knew of but never followed Tori, but after that performance I am a new fan. Amazing.
That makes me smile so genuinely. She's been enchanting me since my teens way back in the 90s.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Tori. ❤️. So happy to see
@@bethanythatsme Hello fellow Gen Xer! The 90s was an AMAZING time for music. All the various forms of pop or alternative or grunge rock, female artists with powerful vocals who could also play instruments. If you weren't into that, there was rap, hip-hop and R&B. Or even techno. Everything was original and creative and poetic! I was also in my teens to my early 20s. Miss the 90s!
She is a brilliant musician and a brilliant, brilliant mind and heart. Do give her albums a chance. I can't imagine you will be let down.
I’m jealous that you have her music before you…
I can't lie, I got emotional hearing Baker Baker. This is such an imitate and gentle performance. Beautiful.
Hearing it in this way totally blew me away, I might actually prefer this to the original studio version. Feels so haunting & beautiful.
My god this sounds so incredible. We all know what a star Tori is, but kudos to the audio engineers that take it to a magical level.
It's done in her studio, and the mic placement is amazing for her lead in to "Baker Baker", its great to hear the power of the low tones of a properly produced piano recording.
Yes, the sound engineer was so good she married him! ❤️☺️ In her element 100% here, at home. ❤ The acoustics are lush. Just heavenly sound. ✨
@@Internutt2023
A piercing performance, very sad notes can be heard, as if Tory is sad for the times when “Baker Baker” was written, or so it seemed to me.
And yes, the piano sounds divine.
0:00 - *Baker Baker* (4:34)
5:52 - *Ocean to Ocean* (9:25)
11:02 - *29 Years*
[14:41 - Tiny Desk team]
Maybe this should be pinned, but honestly no one should skip a minute of this. Just sit and let 🎹 👑
People misuse and overuse the word genius all the time. But here, you see and hear a genius.
I only wish this performance was 5X longer… I love hearing her solo on the piano and introducing every song. Thank you for this performance and this recording. It was music I needed to hear.
“29 years” is an instant classic!! Thanks, Tori 💙
I like the way she plays the piano, she knows her instrument so well and knows how to play all combinations of chords to compliment the melody. The music is so powerful and the piano sounds so beutiful.
Tori plays "Baker Baker" here a half step lower than the recording. She's never done this on her many live releases of the song, nor does she typically change keys of things other than for medley purposes. I like the change - it's one of the best versions she has ever played. Her voice resonates differently now (after "29 years"), and some of these songs can find a new life with a slight transposition.
It reminds me of when Joni Mitchell reinterpreted “Clouds”. Tori’s voice has probably changed over time and not playing out for the last few years seems to have left an imprint on her vocals.
But her singing and playing is still so sublime ❤️
@@LianneHutchesonThe natural tendency of the human voice to become lower in pitch. She matches with a different key on the piano.
@@michaelsoo4126 thank you for helping me to understand the mechanics of singing. I would have never known myself as a musician… 😆
@@michaelsoo4126 bit cringey, not to use critical thinking when "educating" a music educator about how human vocals work - she clearly shows she understands that in her first statement about Clouds, and the key changes to match Joni's aging voice 👌
She did the same with Datura in order to match it with Take To The Sky years ago
Random click, no regrets ! This has to be one of the most relaxing performance I ever heard 🤗
Welcome to the wonder world of Tori Amos. Always inspiring authentic and full of heart
Tori Amos is to the music world what the North Star ⭐️ is to the sky. If you don’t step outside at night and look up you’ll miss it. Been staring at this beautiful star since 1994!
What a lovely comment, so true x
Tori Amos is the only artist ever that I’ve claimed as my favorite.
I wasa at her first NYC concert.1992!!
She still sounds flawless..I grew up with her .she is the musical gateway to my soul
0:00 - *Piano Intro*
0:55 - *Baker Baker*
4:35 _welcome to Tiny Desk and talking about the song Ocean To Ocean_
5:53 - *Ocean To Ocean*
9:25 - _talking about 29 Years_
11:02 - *29 Years*
Bump 🔝
This beautiful woman's music changed my life forever!
My relationship with her newer music is different than her earlier work, but there is still nothing like seeing music pour out of her and her piano. Magic in real time.
Agreed 👍 ❤
There's just no one like her... whatever, wherever... it's a pleasure to hear her
Quite simply, my favourite music artist of all time! Tori's way of playing the piano transcends, and whenever I listen to her, I have to literally stop what Im doing and just, listen.
It's almost like the music itself feels haunted somehow, which is what I love about it and her! Hard to explain in words to be honest but I reckon some of Tori's music comes "from the other side" and Tori is the one that captures that better than anyone else
Genius, prodigy, incredible lyricist, icon and basically the living legend!!!!!!!!Tori Amos is going to live forever!
Transcendent.. absolute icon.
I worked one of her early shows in Pittsburgh where i was a P.A.
at a cafe/restaurant to a room of less than 100 people. As a straight woman, I can say with confidence that I’d never seen a person who was so hypnotic, sexy and showstopping as Tori was. The piano playing is outer worldly. She had a sensuality and presence that will never be duplicated. If Heaven exists, I hope Tori Amos is playing in the background.
This is the version of 29 years I wanted. So good.
I fist heard Baker Baker as a teenager, and along with The Cure, it completely shaped who I am today. This version made me cry just as hard as the first time I heard it.
Long Live Tori! Ears with Feet since 1998. I know I'm not alone in saying that her music saved my life. 🍻💕
She's dope AF. The 90s were so sweet!!
Literally just heard the piano intro & had to go back to the beginning to hear it again. It was so intense, could like feel it and she hadn't even started singing yet. I love how raw she is because it's like I can feel what she's feeling
She's always been one of my favorite ladies in music! Love her! She hasn't aged a day ! She looks amazing & sounds even better! Love her song "Speaking with Trees"!
Been a fan for close to two decades and I'm always in absolute awe that she can pull improvs out of the air like she does. Chills. Every. Time.
Same here. Bought my first Tori album when i was 14. I'm 36 now. Chills, every time.
Ditto! Pele was my first album-saw her MTV unplugged show which opened with Blood Roses and couldn’t get it out of my head. Have been a fan ever since! She’s still writing amazing stuff. Saw her in 2015 (?) and was right up in front of the stage, it was great! Was bummed to see the new slate of US shows didn’t include Miami, but I get it. Knowing how much the pandemic affected her, as well, has made her music resonate even more with me (didn’t think that was even possible!)
Tori, you have been a lifeline for me since the 90's and your music means everything to me! It is SO good to see you with your piano. Love you! ❤️
Tori Amos is one of the most talented artists of this generation. Truly unique music that continues to inspire and move people who have heard her perform. Her songs are conceptually compelling and personal. And she’s a lovely human being.
One of the most incredible artists I have heard in a long time...cannot understand why she isn't more renowned.
Jesus... BEAUTIFUL.... Thank you mothering me Tori...I love you
How can anyone not be moved to your soul listening and watching her, she is the heaviest artist ever imho
❤ Miss You Tori! Hopefully see you soon in Amsterdam 🙏
Seen her play this evening (5th of April 2023) in Brussels.
Followed her career since her debut and none of us got younger. But it didn't matter. Time didn't matter. It's was just about music and beauty.
Her legacy is part of who I am.
Without her, I would probably have been about the same. But not quite.
Some of the feelings I got to experience thanks to her shaped my life somehow and I cherish them very much. She made me a little bit more human than I would have been otherwise.
Thanks Tori.
I've been a huge fan of Tori since I was a teenager in the 90s- she's definitely one of those legit artists that isn't just a one hit wonder or flavor of the month.
What a goddess! Tori's songs have been, and always will be, healing, liberating, and empowering for so many people. Her music is both medicinal and mystical. I'm so thankful for her wisdom, her talent, and her generous spirit. ❤
Tori is just magical when she starts playing on the piano. This is wonderful!
Editing note: "As Amos begins "Baker Baker," a fan favorite from her 1994 debut album Under the Pink" -- Under the Pink is her sophomore album. Her debut was of course Little Earthquakes.
I was going to mention that as well @faxman
Boys for Pele not shabby either
@@mikah4812 my fav of hers
first class. especially "baker baker" sounds like a hymn in this confusing times...
have known her since 1992. and am happy to meet her again right now!
My life wouldn't have been the same without Tori. Thank you so much.
🥲 Same here 💖
Every hair on my arm is standing up, timeless voice, timeless songs, she's better than ever. I love her❤️
She is divine.
Absolutely nothing compares to this
Tori forever captivating the audience, and taking us for a deep dive within her waves of key and word 🌊🎹🖤✨
This intimate powerful performance cut through 29 years and tore open all the emotions of the then younger me, everything amplified instead of being subdued by time. This is the greatest gift of artists such as Tori Amos.
It’s so inspiring to see her still doing live shows after all this time. The way the two pianos works as a metaphor as a linking between the two oceans
My favorite since 1996. She's amazing and brilliant. Her songs spoke to me then and continue to speak to me now...29 Years... OMG
Every person can appreciate something about this artist. I listen to mostly jazz, rap, blues, classical, salsa, Afrobeats, rock, soul, but this artists voice touches something deep inside
! I discovered her as a teenager, before I even had the opportunity (via the internet, life, and time/evolution) to get into lots of other music and artists... and now I'm 32, and she twinkles "so hard" for me, so much harder than she did when I was 13. her work grows with you.
Get the feeling that the Tori community would have one massive party together bonded by the strength of emotion and human experiences. Much more so than with any other artist I can think of. We all have our stories and somehow Tori captures the spirit of it in her music. Tears on my pillow.
Saw Tori in Madison WI at the Barrymore decades ago now during college at UW Madison. This is a real treat!!! Thank you for the ‘at home’ concerts while we are still losing 2000-2500 people a day in the US to COVID. It is so heartening to see beautiful art in safe conditions!
As ever: brilliant, inspiring, challenging, emotionally-charged music from one of our greatest singer-songwriters!
Tori has been in my heart for 29 years.
She is absolute magic.
This is my all-time favorite Tiny Desk concert!
Blown. Away.
My 5 yr old daughter "Thanks dad, that cheered me up!" Not that she's an unhappy soul. I just wanted to see whether she really has an appetite to play the piano :-) Thank you from me too, Tori!
OMG. That was amazing. 29 Years. How Beautiful. Made me cry. I haven't loved a Tori song like this in a while. I feel like she came back to something in the pandemic, something I wasn't feeling in her music for a while, funnily, I think I also felt distanced from it in myself -- that something -- and this song talks about recovering lost aspects of self. And the part about Athena and Posiedon and Medusa -- wow, that myth has so much meaning. I feel like my own healing journey is mirrorred in the trajectory of her songs, going from victim to this healing place, and in and out of them, something I also feel with LDR. Really really beautiful. I will be listening on repeat.
Beautifully expressed. Return to myth.
The queen of our hearts has returned! Recall warmly taking refuge in her aetherial voice, the depth of her message, and the verisimilitude of her spirit decades ago. As is so rarely the case, after so many years, life's changes and challenges, Tori is as potent an artist as ever, if not moreso. We are unfathomably blessed to draw breath on this earth during the same age as this godsent siren who's power of expression, thoughts, and experiences imbue greater meaning and understanding onto each of our own personal journeys. Love you Tori, and thank you!!!!
Always love to see Tori. Been a fan of her for many years. My favorite album is "From the Choirgirl Hotel".
She has always been and continues to be magical 💝 thank you so much for choosing her to do this
I love you Tori. Don't know where I'd be today with out you.
Always loved Tori.
It's 2022. And she is here with us. ❤
"Ocean to ocean / where have I been / while all of this has been escalating?" is one of the humblest lines she's ever written, and that's saying a lot considering how introspective she her lyrics often are.
a voice has never caught my attention like Tori's. A piano has never caught my attention like Tori's. She has inspired me.
I’ve seen her three times and I absolutely love her. She’s so overdramatic. She is so 90s. But I still love her and I will never tire of her. Thank you Tori
Loved it. So good to hear and see her living in her power. Wonderful, beautiful gifts she's just given us. Thank you, Tori Amos.
(and NPR)
Amazing music, a landscape of storyteller's prairie..