Check it and enjoy:
Thanks to reader Collin Quiring for the tip.
I thought I could detect an accent in the men's singing, and indeed the group is a Slovenian chorus called Perpetuum Jazzile. This is their creative rendition of rock group Toto's Africa. (You can freshen your memory on the original in this live performance, or this music video.)
David Paich, who wrote the song, was so impressed with their version that he wrote them a note of high praise (click on News, then Toto loves us; coding doesn't let me link directly).
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Speaking of Toto/Africa, I have stashed somewhere a vinyl single of that group and song which is not just a round shaped piece of black plastic, but has pictures embedded and is shaped like the continent of Africa.
I wonder if it's worth anything...
OK, now I have Rosanna stuck in my head. Toto = good stuff, except for maybe that Toto Japanese toilet, which the jury is still out on.
Not a big ToTo fan (waaaaay before my time ;) ) but I love jazz/acapella choirs - this was so fun!
"Not a big ToTo fan (waaaaay before my time ;)"
Young whipersnapper! GET OFF OF MY LAWN!
:o)
~Squirrel
Well, Squirrel, if this will make you feel better, Toto was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before my time as well, but I was such a teenage VH-1 junkie that I actually know what their songs sound like.
(Hmm. That doesn't help much, does it?) :P
Seriously, though, the song I really liked (still do) from Toto from my VH-1 days was "I'll Be Over You". Didn't really like "Rosanna", but "Africa" was all right. (This acapella version is awesome!)
And the rain!! Oh, that brings me back to physics class of senior year in high school. We were located on the second floor, and our physics teacher (a really FUN Mormon lady) taught us how to make rain the very same way. If memory serves me correctly, by the time we got to the stomping thunderstorm, the poor class downstairs thought that there was a big earthquake!
(I deleted an earlier comment, but basically it's this: I just realized that I started watching videos before I reached my teenage years, but I wasn't hooked on them until middle school. Wow, talk about being poisoned by pop culture at an young age. But thank God for His grace--I'm sure it could have been much worse.)
(Oops, that's a cappella.)
Am I the only one majorly bothered by the backwards comparison of the lyric "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti"? Yeah, probably.
In all likelihood.
Thanks for sharing that DJP. Africa is one of my 80s favies.
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