Tori Amos [ tickets ] hasn't issued an album of all new material in more than two years, but the singer/songwriter/pianist will return in 2005 with a new set titled "The Beekeeper."

According to a press release, Amos is recording and self-producing the album, due Feb. 22, in her U.K. studio. She's again working with her longtime partners, drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Jon Evans. The set incorporates vintage organs, Afro-Cuban drums and gospel choirs.

"'The Beekeeper' is musically inspired by the fact that the piano has realized that she has an organ," Amos said in a typically cryptic statement. "With my right hand on her organ and my left hand on her piano keys, I have been changed by the relationship between these two beautiful creatures, the Bosendorfer piano and the B3 Hammond organ."

Among the songs that are expected to appear on the album are "Sweet the Sting," Sleeps with Butterflies" and "Ribbons Undone."

Meanwhile, Amos' first book, "Tori Amos: Piece by Piece," co-written by music journalist Ann Powers, is scheduled for release on Feb. 24. The book is billed as a "rare inside look into many intimacies of [Amos'] life as both a private individual and a very public performing musician."

Amos' latest release, the best-of compilation "Tales of a Librarian," was issued in late 2003. The two-disc album features 20 tracks, including two new songs. In May, she released "Welcome to Sunny Florida," her first commercially available concert DVD, which was packaged with "Scarlet's Hidden Treasures," a six-song bonus CD of previously unreleased songs.

Her most recent album of new studio material was 2002's "Scarlet's Walk."