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| | Amazon.com: Boys for Pele: Music: Tori Amos (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. |
 | | Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). |
 | | The photograph of Amos on the sleeve, guarding a primitive back-hills cabin with a shotgun, rattlesnakes around her feet, is interesting, as is the photo inside of Amos, in a rocking chair, nursing a piglet at her breast like an indiscriminate earth goddess, teat available to all in need. |
| www.amazon.com /Boys-Pele-Tori-Amos/dp/B000002J88 (2201 words) |
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