It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert
6 years ago

It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert

NPR  

It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert Enlarge this image toggle caption Max Siedentopf/Courtesy of the artist Max Siedentopf/Courtesy of the artist From soft-rock smash to karaoke staple to Internet bait, the shelf life of Toto's 1982 smash "Africa" has reached remarkable, unexpected lengths. Perhaps it has finally reached its logical conclusion with one multimedia artist's new sound installation, which plays the 1982 smash on loop until the end of time deep in the, er, coastal Namib desert. Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf installed Toto Forever late last December while back home with his family in Namibia. "I was very intrigued by this and wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit 'Africa' in Africa," Siedentopf writes to NPR.

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Toto’s ‘Africa’ to play ‘for eternity’ in Namibia desert
5 years, 11 months ago

Toto’s ‘Africa’ to play ‘for eternity’ in Namibia desert

CNN  

CNN — Toto’s “Africa” has come home, so to speak, thanks to an installation by an artist who plans to play the song on loop in a Namibian desert – for eternity. “Even though ‘Africa’ by Toto was released 1982 it is still very much present in today’s pop culture and frequently used for memes and even entire Reddit pages …