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Gold Dust is the 13th solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released on October 1, 2012 by Deutsche Grammophon and Mercury Classics. The album is produced by Amos with arrangements by long-time collaborator John Philip Shenale. Inspired by and following in a similar vein as Amos's previous effort, the classical music album Night of Hunters (2011), Gold Dust features some of her previously released alternative rock and baroque pop songs re-worked in an orchestral setting. The material for Gold Dust, consisting of songs selected by Amos spanning her entire catalogue from Little Earthquakes (1992) through Midwinter Graces (2009), was recorded with the Metropole Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley.

Gold Dust
Studio album by Tori Amos
Released	October 1, 2012 (2012-10-01)
Recorded	MCO, Hilversum and Martian Engineering, Cornwall
Length	61:08
Label	Deutsche Grammophon, Mercury Classics
Producer	Tori Amos
Tori Amos chronology
Night of Hunters (2011) Gold Dust (2012) Unrepentant Geraldines (2014)
Singles from Gold Dust
"Flavor" Released: September 6, 2012

Background

The stimulus to Gold Dust was a concert where Amos performed with the Metropole Orchestra as part of a "Week of the Metropole" series. The concert, performed at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on October 8, 2010,[1] was the first orchestral concert of Amos's career, and set the stage for recording the tracks that would comprise Gold Dust.

The project commemorates the 20th anniversary of the release of her debut solo album Little Earthquakes, as well as the music released since then. The collection has autobiographical leanings, with Amos opting for songs that represent a personal narrative instead of including a string of singles. Of the songs included in the project, Amos said, "[they are] a collection of new studio recordings of where they are now and who they have become".[2] Gold Dust mostly consists of songs culled from the 2010 Metropole Orchestra concert. While the original set list from the concert focused heavily on Amos's then-recent holiday album, Midwinter Graces, the focus for Gold Dust shifts with four of the album's 14 tracks from the Little Earthquakes era. In addition, three songs which were not performed during the concert were reworked for orchestra and added to extend the span of the collection over Amos's music catalogue.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
American Songwriter	[5]
The A.V. Club	C+[6]
Paste	8.7/10[7]
Slant Magazine	[8]

Gold Dust received mixed reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 13 reviews.[3] American Songwriter gave a glowing review of Gold Dust, stating that often Amos improves upon original versions of the songs and praising her skills as a musician, vocalist, and tunesmith.

Track listing

Notes

• Music performed by The Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley
• Arrangements for the Orchestra by John Philip Shenale.
• Each of Amos's solo studio albums is represented on Gold Dust, with the exceptions of To Venus and Back (1999) and The Beekeeper (2005) (the only Amos albums not previously featuring string arrangements by John Philip Shenale). Other albums not represented on Gold Dust are the covers album Strange Little Girls (2001), the classical album Night of Hunters (2011), as well as the pre-fame Y Kant Tori Read (1988) album.

Personnel

Charts

The chart below lists the peak positions for Gold Dust on various music charts around the world.

Chart (2012)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[9]	60
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10]	46
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11]	27
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12]	55
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[13]	24
French Albums (SNEP)[14]	156
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15]	48
Italian Albums (FIMI)[16]	53
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[17]	95
UK Albums (OCC)[18]	36
US Billboard 200[19]	63
US Top Alternative Albums ("Billboard)[20]	16
US Top Classical Albums (Billboard)[citation needed]	3
US Billboard Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[21]	25
US Top Tastemakers (Billboard)[22]	23

References

External links

• Tori Amos official website
• Tori Amos official Facebook page

На других языках

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- [en] Gold Dust (Tori Amos album)

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[it] Gold Dust

Gold Dust è il tredicesimo album in studio della cantautrice e pianista statunitense Tori Amos, pubblicato nell'ottobre del 2012, ad un solo anno di distanza dal precedente Night of Hunters. L'album contiene brani dell'artista pubblicati tra il 1992 e il 2009 rivisitati e modificati secondo un genere più classico; stile che aveva già adottato nell'album precedente.

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[ru] Gold Dust

Gold Dust — тринадцатый студийный альбом американской певицы Тори Эймос, выпущенный 1 октября 2012 года на лейблах Deutsche Grammophon и Mercury Classics. Альбом спродюсирован Тори Эймос при сотрудничестве с давним соратником Джоном Филиппом Шинейлом. Вдохновленный предыдущими начинаниями Эймос, в том числе классическим альбомом Night of Hunters (2011), Gold Dust включает избранные из ранее выпущенных поп-рок песен в стиле барокко-поп, записанные в сопровождении оркестра. Повторно представленный материал, который охватывает период с выхода первого альбома Little Earthquakes (1992) вплоть до альбома Midwinter Graces (2009), был отобран лично певицей и записан с известным оркестром «Метрополь» под руководством Жюля Бакли.

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