In the thirty-five years of her career Tori Amos has released surprisingly few official live albums. Luckily her tour with bassist Jon Evans and drummer Ash Soan has now been immortalized by one.
TORI AMOS - Diving Deep Live (2CD) (2024)
Since the singer / pianist is famously playing no show twice it's probably pretty hard to decide what performance with which tracks from her gigantic repertoire to release. But Tori and Decca didn't even bother with this question and just compiled the songs for this cohesive two hours album from various shows. And since the locations aren't credited you never actually know where in Europe or America you are.
The selection however seems to be a very accurate representation of the mix of hits and rather obscure gems being played each night. So if you have seen this trio live, like I did last year in Hamburg, this will certainly feel like a familiar throwback with a similar overall vibe and at least a couple of songs being reprised.
With the instrumental introductions and tight jams of this band most of Tori's song assume a new longer shape here - and it sounds lush and glorious. Despite desperately wanting to scream the names of various favorites, I won't even start to point out single tracks here, since the musical interaction is stunning on each and every one of them.
And even though she doesn't test her range as excessively as in younger years and gives herself longer breaks with more instrumental passages: No matter if she sings in a delicate balladic, grand or rocking environment - past her sixtieth birthday Amos' vocals are still brimming with expression, edge and mesmerizing magic.
If you have being living under a rock for decades and really have no idea why Tori Amos is a legend... have you heard of YouTube? And yes, this album will give you a satisfying conclusive answer too.
The double vinyl being pretty expensive and the double CD featuring four "Diving Deeper" bonus tracks including "Crazy" and "Mother Revolution" made it pretty easy for me to decide which version of "Diving Deep Live" I wanted.
Can't say that I regret my choice. All one hundred twenty-one and a half minutes of this dive are wonderful. No emergence necessary.
The selection however seems to be a very accurate representation of the mix of hits and rather obscure gems being played each night. So if you have seen this trio live, like I did last year in Hamburg, this will certainly feel like a familiar throwback with a similar overall vibe and at least a couple of songs being reprised.
With the instrumental introductions and tight jams of this band most of Tori's song assume a new longer shape here - and it sounds lush and glorious. Despite desperately wanting to scream the names of various favorites, I won't even start to point out single tracks here, since the musical interaction is stunning on each and every one of them.
And even though she doesn't test her range as excessively as in younger years and gives herself longer breaks with more instrumental passages: No matter if she sings in a delicate balladic, grand or rocking environment - past her sixtieth birthday Amos' vocals are still brimming with expression, edge and mesmerizing magic.
If you have being living under a rock for decades and really have no idea why Tori Amos is a legend... have you heard of YouTube? And yes, this album will give you a satisfying conclusive answer too.
The double vinyl being pretty expensive and the double CD featuring four "Diving Deeper" bonus tracks including "Crazy" and "Mother Revolution" made it pretty easy for me to decide which version of "Diving Deep Live" I wanted.
Can't say that I regret my choice. All one hundred twenty-one and a half minutes of this dive are wonderful. No emergence necessary.
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