Hey, this is Emily Fox from KexP's podcast, Sound and Vision. While the weekly mix is on hiatus, I want to drop into the feed and let you know that there are plenty of other KexP podcasts you should be checking out. One is my show, Sound and Vision, where we dive into the deeper stories and issues behind the music. If you love getting to know the artists behind the music you love, search for

K-EXP in your podcast app and subscribe to Sound and Vision. To give you a sample of what you can

expect, here's an episode that dropped earlier this fall. It's about Tori Amos. She got signed to

Atlantic Records in the late 80s and made waves when she released this song Cornflake Girl in the 90s.

And in October, she released her 16th studio album. It's called Ocean to Ocean.

Ocean to Ocean, tails of the sea. I got up a Tori Amos from her home in Cornwall, England to talk about the record, mental health and the pandemic, creativity, and her synesthesia.

So you were a child prodigy on the piano. You taught yourself how to play, was the youngest person to be admitted to the prestigious Music Conservatory, the Peabody Institute when you were five.

And I read that since you were young, you saw music as light patterns, like a form of synesthesia.

Describe what that looks like for you.

Well, I could play music before I remember anything. It's kind of weird because it's not something I questioned at the time. And my mom would say, you know, that I would say, can you hear that? Can you hear that, mom? Can you hear this

drinks? Can you hear this? Can you see this? And she'd be like, what are you talking about?

Bless her, she was a very loving woman. So it was never in a shameful way. It was never like,

you weirdo kid of mine. It was, okay, tell me about it. So it just seemed really natural

that you could see patterns and different things, icebergs, creatures, almost like you're

traveling in another galaxy.

And it was hard to describe, but music could really take me from sitting on that piano

bench anywhere.

And it could have been listening to a Beatles track, listening to a record, and I could

travel.

So when you are writing music, does this happen to you? Like, is that a part of your

writing process when you were able to not only hear what you're creating, but actually see what you're

creating? Sometimes, absolutely. And then sometimes it's complete torture. I mean, was there, was there any song off of this latest album that you were able to also see through

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