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Tori Sparks is based Barcelona, Spain, after having recently relocated from Nashville - but she spends most of her time on the road all over the world. Tori At the age of 27, she has already released four critically-acclaimed albums under the auspices of her own record tag (Glass Mountain Records). She walks the line between soulful and hilarious in her electrifying live performances, singing in English, French and Spanish. She is known as the hardest working woman in the music business, booking and playing well over 200 concerts each year. Tori Sparks' upcoming fourth , Until Morning/Come out of the Dark, marks her third musical collaboration with producer David Henry (R.E.M., Josh Rouse, The Cowboy Junkies, Widespread Panic), and her first with Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Elvis Costello, Velvet Underground, Gypsy Kings, Paula Cole, Rosanne Cash). The recordings feature a cast of world-class musicians, as well as special guest vocalists Shawn Mullins (Grammy nominee, #1 on the US Americana Charts), Mike Farris (Americana Music Association Artist of the Year, Dove Award Winner), Paris DeLane (Sonia Dada), and indie folk favorite David Mead. Until Morning/Come out of the Dark is not a traditional album, but a study in dichotomy. Sparks chose to the 13 new songs as two conjoined mini-albums, or a double EP. The first disc, Until Morning, reflects the dark, sensual, even diabolical side of Tori's vocal and songwriting skill. The second disc, Come Out of the Dark, is tumbleweed Americana meets fragile folk, or Tori's ability to show us the dawn that follows the darkness - in a word, the hope that love can bring. This record also marks the first Spanish-language song that Tori has recorded, a classic Cuban tune from the 1940s called InchQuizás, Quizás, Quizás.Inch The album art is a design by noted New York visual artist Joe Petruccio, best known for his work with the
