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Tori Amos has teamed up with Universal Republic Records in a joint venture agreement to release a new studio album late spring of next year. Click on ‘continue reading’ below to read the full press release which includes all the details about Tori’s new partnership.

Her upcoming Universal Republic debut (her tenth studio album), is currently scheduled for a late spring/early summer 2009 unveiling.  Every track on the album will be accompanied by a corresponding ‘visualette,’ featuring footage that has been captured over the past year.  Shot in HD and Super 8, the visualettes will incorporate a documentary style. “Tori is very much looking forward to a fulfilling creative relationship with Monte Lipman and the great team he has assembled at Universal Republic,” stated John Witherspoon, Amos’ manager, “The intricate development of this unique Audio Visual component to Tori’s musical presentation, which she has been crafting through her own Galactic Media company, is indicative of the outlier creative and strategic opportunities both Tori and Universal Republic hope to build upon in this extraordinary relationship.”

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The maverick singer is spreading her wings. She’s writing a feminist fairytale for the National Theatre, she tells James McNair for The Independant.

“There’s nothing wrong with Disney,” says Tori Amos, “but my benchmarks are more West Side Story meets Jesus Christ Superstar. I’m trying to write a musical that will be relevant to a 16-year-old today, a rite of passage for a young girl into womanhood.

“The National Theatre [with whom she's in talks] has been more open-minded than anyone I could have worked with on Broadway, but everything has to be approved by committee, and I have to tell you that not everyone is aboard my Bösendorfer rocket-ship. They can pull out and this musical may never be staged, but I don’t want to be writing for a fuddy-duddy audience.”

Having split with Epic, Amos is financing recording sessions for her as-yet-untitled 10th studio album herself (again there’s a concept; each song will be tied to its own short film), but with 12 million album sales and a vast, famously loyal fan base behind her, the singer surely needn’t worry about this winter’s fuel bills?

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