Peter Toh

Well what a weekend for myself. I have this habbit of not blogging on weekends, meh all well. Here’s some good stuff for Monday. I mentioned Peter Toh a couple weeks ago and was able to get one of the usual 5 question glob interviews. Peter has so much going for him and the potential to blow up, and most likely will this year. Just remember, you saw it here first. Just to prove my point, yet unrelated… notice how Mika has blown up? Check out the MusicGlob archives for all kinds of content.

Now on with the good stuff.

DAN: What are you currently working on?

PETER: I’m working on my first solo album called “wildlife.” it should have at least 12 to 14 new songs and feature more live instrumentation and better vocals. i’ve been training with a great singing coach named Craig Derry. I am also working on music with other artists like D.O.T. and Niki Jean.

DAN: What has inspired you lately?

PETER: The friends, fam, enemies, and artists in my life, brooklyn and NYC, current events such as racism and global warming, Tegan and Sara, The Clipse, Timbaland, Craig Derry my teacher, his other students who are all talented singers, movies like the prestige, and television shows like planet earth HD.

DAN: Ages is a beautiful video, could you tell me a little more of what went into it?

PETER: The hard part about making videos is coming up with an idea. The reason we picked the song in the first place is because it had stood the test of time the strongest. So it made it even harder to visualize since it has meant different things at different times to me over the years. Adam Schleichkorn (co-owner and founder of hidden track tv) and I came up with a bunch of whacky ideas including a lot of stop motion stuff to illustrate the simplistic but mysterious nature of the song. Our partner Randy Acker and friends the Sandbox Group put all of their resources into this to add another piece of content to their growing repetoir. We spent one day shooting this and it was edited a million times. It had the essence of what me and Adam thought up and the smoothness of the song and the sandbox really put their professional touch on it to bring it all together. all in all it was done with no budget, just a lot of believers so Adam and I thank them immensely.

DAN: What are some bands you are currently into?

PETER: I like Tegan and Sara. I don’t really know what’s going on in the rock music world tho. I am getting out of the engineering business so I plan on listening to more music now that I don’t do it for a living. Also my friend put me on to a band called Sparta that has a pretty solid album. Also the Deftones newest stuff is dope! There’s a great band in NYC called The Subway Band who plays latin versions of top 40 songs from any year.

DAN: Just for fun, last meal/book/song/tv show

PETER: Last meal would be sushi, “the meaning of it all” by Richard P. Feynman, “Remember a Time” by MJ, tv I like the funny shows

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