Tori Amos: 'I spent a lot of time by the River Bandon in Kinsale' 

With a new album just released, and dates in Ireland planned, the American singer used her lockdown time to create amidst a period of mourning

Tori Amos plays two dates in Ireland next year. Picture: Desmond Murray

It’s an immediately striking visual expression to support Ocean to Ocean, the album written and recorded by Tori Amos during the Covid-19 pandemic. The singer-songwriter and virtuoso pianist resembles a character from ancient folklore on the rugged coast, cliffs and caves of England’s south-west, her long red hair flowing over a black dress.

Of the flowing locks, she admits to being “frustrated” as a child for not being born with the flame-red colour: “To me it’s an energetic key, I knew I had to be part of the ginger brigade.”