trouser press: tori amos, annie, neko case and more

- Tori Amos to release live DVD of rare performances
- Norwegian pop icon Annie unveils second album
- New Giant Sand album to star Neko Case and Isobel Campbell
- Emma Pollock guests on new Green Peppers album
- Au Revoir Simone pay tribute to Bowie
- Pram to release remix EP

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Two of Tori Amos’s earliest live performances are coming to DVD on September 22nd with the release of the latest in a longrunning series of tapings at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The prosaically named Live At Montreux collates the singer’s pre- and post-Little Earthquakes appearances at the Festival in 1991 and 1992, showing her “fascinating progression from one year to the next as she grows in confidence and skill as a live performer, buoyed by the critical and commercial success of Little Earthquakes.”

1991 show:
01 Silent All These Years
02 Precious Things
03 China
04 Crucify
05 Leather
06 Song For Eric
07 Upside Down
08 Happy Phantom
09 Winter
10 Thank You

1992 show:
11 Little Earthquakes
12 Crucify
13 Silent All These Years
14 Precious Things
15 Happy Phantom
16 Whole Lotta Love / Thank You
17 Me & A Gun
18 Winter
19 Smells Like Teen Spirit

Tori talks about the DVD and all her other new, post-Epic projects in a revealing interview with Spinner.com.

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Four years on from her lipsmacking bubblegum pop debut Anniemal, the woman possessing perhaps the finest cheekbones this side of the Øresund is back with her second album, Don’t Stop. Released through Island Records in October 6th, it’s preceded by the brain-implodingly addictive ‘I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me’, out next week.

The tracklist for Don’t Stop looks a bit like this:

01 My Love Is Better
02 I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me
03 Sweet
04 Loco
05 Bad Times
06 I Can’t Let Go
07 Marie Cherie
08 When The Night
09 Heaven & Hell
10 What Do You Want (The Breakfast Song)
11 Take You Home
12 Songs Remind Me Of You

Pitchfork are ever so kindly hosting an MP3 of ‘Loco’ here.

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Neko Case, Isobel Campbell and Henriette Sennenvaldt of Danish band Under Byen all guest on the upcoming Giant Sand album, Provisions, due out in September. M Ward, the him-half of She & Him, also joins principal Howe Gelb, as do Lonna Kelley and Canadian singer Lucie Idlout. Among the album’s 13 songs is a cover of PJ Harvey’s ‘The Desperate Kingdom Of Love’. “It’s simply one of the best songs ever written,” Gelb told Canadian website ChartAttack, “and came begging for a horn section to mope with.” Sounds good to us!

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Emma Pollock, formerly of The Delgados, guests on two songs (‘The Shell Song’ and ‘The Liars’) on the new Green Peppers album, Adventures In The Slipstream, due for physical release on August 18th but already available from emusic.com.

Green Peppers is the ‘solo’ project of former Soup Dragons guitarist John McCulloch, a frequent collaborator with Isobel Campbell. Adventures…, his third album, also features vocals from Anna Sheard, Melanie Whittle and Sandra Belda. The Melanie-sung ‘Angel Angel’ is currently streaming on the Peppers’ Myspace.

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Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone have covered a song by obscure Scarlett Johansson backing singer David Bowie for a new tribute album to the little-known artist. Of his minuscule back catalogue, the girls have selected a song called ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’. You can buy it now if you want to, from iTunes, or you can wait until the album hits the shops on July 14th.

Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered

01 Au Revoir Simone – ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’
02 Heartbreak – ‘Loving The Alien’
03 Kelley Polar – ‘Magic Dance [harold and baby o in italy version]‘
04 Leo Minor – ‘Ashes To Ashes’
05 Carl Craig Presents Zoos Of Berlin – ‘Looking for Water’
06 Drew Brown – ‘Sweet Thing’
07 Matthew Dear – ‘Sound & Vision’
08 Susumu Yokota – ‘Golden Years’
09 The Emperor Machine – ‘Repetition’
10 Joakim & The Disco – ‘A New Career In A New Town’
11 Richard Walters & Faultline – ‘Be My Wife’
12 The Thing – ‘Life On Mars’

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Pram, the ever-mysterious Birmingham trio fronted by Rosie Cuckston, release a new EP on July 21st through Domino. Prisoner Of The 7 Pines features remixes of tracks from last year’s The Moving Frontier, with contributions from lovable labelmates Psapp among others. The EP will be released both digitally and on 12″ vinyl:

A1 ‘Beluga’
A2 ‘Hums Around Us’ [psapp vital sand pit remix]
A3 ‘The Silk Road’ [aguirre wrath of godsy remix, by cherrystones]
B1 ‘Beluga’ [grandmaster gareth mix]
B2 ‘Salva’ [throwing toys into the pram mix]

The brilliantly creepy promo for ‘Beluga’ is more short film than music video. I’m at a loss to describe it really…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKat1eAjNuQ]

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Alan Pedder

Written by: Wears The Trousers magazine

Tags: alan pedder, annie, au revoir simone, david bowie, emma pollock, giant sand, green peppers, howe gelb, isobel campbell, montreux jazz festival, neko case, news, pj harvey, pram, psapp, tori amos, under byen

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