Toog goes Karaoke

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Toog caught the train from Paris to Berlin this weekend to sign to Karaoke Kalk, the esteemed boutique label and home of cute formalists like Takeo Toyama. On Monday Toog was in Kreuzberg mastering his new album 'Lou Etendue', a somewhat Gainsbourgian homage to Asia Argento produced by Digiki.

Apart from clocking the Amplify festival with its rustling, crackling and scuffling sounds, we also admired the trous de balle at the Pergamon Museum (where an archeologist from Oakland asked us both for autographs!), lunched with my sister, whose boyfriend is in Berlin shooting production stills on the new film from Fernando (City of God) Meirelles, looked at photos of Trabants and Hitler in the new I.M. Pei-designed Deutsches Historisches Museum (they currently have a nice show tracing the history of German advertising), caught an intimate turntable performance by Otomo Yoshihide at the Neurotitan record store and gallery in Mitte, hung out with Donna Summer (aka WFMU's Jason Forrest; he's just found a big apartment in Mitte and plans to stay here in Berlin for several months), saw new East European art at Kunst-Werke and the tail end of the Designmai exhibition, as well as an Anne Laplantine turntable installation, again at Neurotitan.

By the way, congratulations to Anne for the honorary mention she gets for her Hamburg album in the 2004 Ars Electronica prize list!

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une liason amarouse avec une pomme du terre avec yeux et oreilles pears apples and oranges

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an interview with toog in pixelsurgeon recently caught my eye. he mentions that his latest favorite Momus album is, 'Summerisle'. so, i got to wondering what sort of hybrid a pairing and planting of Gilles and Anne would grow.
also, he was quoted as making a comment regarding the album art for '6633'.the one where it looks like he is standing naked in front of a microphone, wearing headphones and making "eye contact" with an unpeeled orange that could just as easily be- not simply symbolically-a disembodied head that gots gear where its ears might be. too.(phew!). it(the quote)goes, "to listen to an orange proves that you respect it. the object is also a person." this computes. it is funny, to me, at least, because, i think, potatoes R people as well... and (co-not-additively)to respect a thing is to look at it again(and again)and maybe even see it in a different way, for a change. the trouble is, if your shy and the object of your attention and/or affection has so many more eyes to make at you, well...?