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Music365 online chat Moderator: Okay, here’s the scoop Tori: Hi Question: You know how much we love
you solo with a piano. Why don’t you treat us to it very much on recent albums?
Tori: Sometimes as a musician,
you’re at different places creating and as a composer. The show tomorrow at the
festival hall is all piano. Sometimes it feels right and sometimes I feel more
collaborative. Q: Are you actually a keen
gardener, or more a gardener of the soul? Any handy tips? Tori: I’m somebody who believes
in hiring a good gardener. I have a good gardener in the tropics but she tells
me Hurricane Irene knocked out my garden. Datura contains all the flowers in my
garden, and I don’t know which ones survive, so I have to go salvage them. Q: Tori, you’ve been experimenting
with a lot of electronics on the last two albums, any places on following in
that direction or something completely new? Tori: Electronics are the
instrument of the last 15 years, so they’re part of your repetoire, and I feel
like it’s better to know what they do rather than be ignorant of what they do,
so you can choose whether to use them or not. Q: Do you like Indian food? Tori: Umm umm umm, depends if I’m
seeing my husband that night Q: Since the plan for releasing a
live/b-sides album was changed when the new work unraveled itself, are there
any plans in the future to ever release a b-side record? Tori: When we approached the b-side
project, we had to approach it holistically...there are over 50 b-sides. To
start choosing which ones gets into pissing a lot of people off. We have to put
a whole b-side box set, that’s a big undertaking and not something I’m going to
do until I’m by the pool for a while. Hold on to your rarities. Q: Are you on MP3.com? Tori: Not anymore...only
streaming when Alanis and I were on the double show. Q: Why do you reckon mermaids so
fascinating to you, and (have always been) to “us” in general? Tori: Let me think...many years
ago I was reading this book about La Muria (bear with me on the spelling) and
supposedly this was pre-Atlantis if you’re talking to the medicine women. This
one medicine woman in the states believed that there were so many stories about
mer people associated with this place, whether it was associated with mythology
or whether it existed, she didn’t know, but the myth has existed for thousands
of years. Q: If you could describe your
musical universe with five words, what would they be? Tori: The bose is nine feet. Q: I heard you are giving the
Venus unreleased songs to a soundtrack maybe...is that true? Tori: Not necessarily, I’m quite
protective of them right now Q: From all your fans all over
the world: Where will you be going on tour next? Tori: Touring...maybe Europe in
March. You have to serve the Christians over the new year first. Q: I know this is kind of
personal, but I noticed you thanked Eric Rosse on your last CD, although he was
kind of absent on the last two. How much a part of the new work is he? Tori: He hasn’t been a part. I
haven’t worked with him on the records since UTP, but he’s such...let’s put it
this way, when you live with somebody for almost eight years, they show up “in
these lines form time to time”. Q: Tell us about your new look. Tori: Do I have a new look?
Suzanne Deeken, who designs for Ghost, created a lot of my clothes for what I’m
doing right now. Q: What do you do with all the
many gifts you get from fans at your concerts? Tori: The gifts... this is why we
have so many buses and trucks. Usually, they end up in this special place in my
parents’ house because they have the space. They have a lot of space. I think
it makes them happy. They’re retired, they’re packrats. Q: When it boils down to just you
and your faeries as companions, what kind of company do you feel you keep in
the empty moments? Tori: It’s never empty because
the faeries make sure... they’re really there when the chips are down. That
doesn’t suck. Q: What advice could you give to
young people writing their own music today? Tori: Hmmm...well, you have to
clear on your intentions as a musician, and if it’s to get played on the radio
all the time, don’t feel guilty about that, but it’s a different skill than
being a poet trying to follow in the footsteps of Neil Young. Don’t be upset if
radio doesn’t play you. sometimes it crosses over, those crossroads meet, but
not all the time. Be clear about what you want to do. You don’t have to explain
it to everybody. No guilt. Q: How was your tour with Alanis
and do you hope to work on tour with anyone in particular in the future? Tori: I thought we had a good
laugh she and i, we did 28 shows in the states, and we had a lot of challenges
on our plate. And I think we worked with them. It’s another to have worked with
someone and still like them. I still like her. Q: We know you’re a big lover of
wine. Can you make any affordable wine recommendations for your fans? Tori: Wine...the good spanish
reserves are really good now, the 95s. Really great. Australian Clarendon Hill,
94 and 95, Silver Oak, Napa Valley, the 95 is gorgeous. Really rick. I’m a big
lover of pomerol, snoop and you can find pomerol deals. If you can get a 94,
they’re good drinking, if you can get an 89, treasure it. All of these are
around $US40 out of a wine shop. The spanish reserves should be cheaper. I
recommend people ordering out of Premier Cru from Oakland. (the question was repeated here) Tori: Read it and study the
wines, order a case, mix it up and try things. Read the descriptions and trust
your instinct. Q: The single for Glory of The
80s got cancelled again for the UK...what gives? Tori: All the recommendations are
red Tori: Les Pucelles
Montrachay...these are $40 or so, but I’m really into white burgany. Kissler’s
always gorgeous. Sonomoa Cutrer, special vintage. (repeats question) Tori: I’m the typist and I
recommend Jackson estate Sauvignon Blanc. Tori: I’ve got to go...call Prima
Cru...order a catalog...don’t make wine inaccessible. Make your own experience,
don’t be scared. It’s good for you. Jesus drank it! Tori: I’m saying
goodbye....toodles... Moderator: Ok, Tori is logging off now Moderator: Thank you so much for coming to the chat everyone |