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CHINA, directed by photographer Cindy Palmano, was the second video made for Little Earthquakes
The video, shot at a rocky beach in North Cornwall, England, has as a central image Tori seated on a rock amongst the crashing waves playing a piano built entirely of stones.
"The stone piano came as a result of the record company insisting that they must have a piano in the video. So we stuck one in there."
-- Cindy Palmano; Really Deep Thoughts Fanzine, Issue #4
"I did a video for China, down there around the cove. This is before I knew any of these people I'm living with now. I had no idea then that I would be passing by here all the time. I had a piano built out of rocks and I fell into the sea--the tide came in to where my derriere is and I was trying to avoid it because it was cold, it was January, and I slipped. But there's a romance to it..."
--Tori, Mojo Magazine, Oct 1999
So Cindy called me up and said, "I know what he's building you." I said, "Cin who's building me what." "Your lover in the video," she said. As I remember, we started to dive into the idea that creative couples make "things" that can rip each other and their images of themselves - separate and together. separate and together. Which makes them separate together. Build walls separately. Build walls together. Egos are delicate things. Unfortunately walls are not. Misperceptions running fast so fast it helps set the stones in place. China was shot in North Cornwall, strangely enough were we recorded Choirgirl 5 1/2 years later. As in Spark, you are seeing real water in winter's glory in England. My "love" in the video built me two things which the sea took with her -- and honest to god rock piano and an upside down china teacup in the form of a skirt.
--Tori, "Tori Stories, her take on the videos" promo booklet
China was released in collectible form in the Little Earthquakes Video and the Tori Amos Video Compilation.
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