The Band Toto Asia
Toto was expanding its production facilities in the overseas market and was doing business in France, Germany, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China. Toto considered North America as a growth market for Washlet bidet seats and toilets, as opposed to its "base" markets of Japan and China.
Dhaniram Toto recorded Toto words to ensure that the future generation could understand them. However, many of the words were being replaced with foreign ones, like dui from Bengali for verandah.
Origins
The company was founded in 1917 and its early years were a mirror of Japan's economic development. In the early years of its existence, the company produced products to meet the demands of modern, contemporary urban housing. To accomplish this, it used the country's first tunnel kiln that produced ceramics in continuous flow. It also pioneered automation for production control, which allows for greater efficiency and consistency.
In the latter half of the 1980s, the company began expanding overseas in order to profit from sales and new markets. It established the Cera Trading Company, importing and distributing other products from other manufacturers to complement its own line of sanitary earthenware and plumbing fittings. This strategy increased sales and expanded the market share of the company globally.
In the 1990s Toto began to focus on research and development of water-related appliances. It also redesigned its system of distribution to better serve customers and improve profit. The company adopted a just-in-time method of managing supply chains and applied the same approach in its sales strategy. This resulted in a higher level of satisfaction of customers.
Toto continued to innovate toilet technology. Its most recent toilet, for example it has an extremely powerful tornado flush that is more eco green than traditional toilets. The company uses recycled water in its manufacturing process and also has a green purchasing policy. In addition to toilets, Toto manufactures faucets and bathtubs and hand dryers that are more efficient in terms of energy consumption than standard models.
The first Toto museum opened in the year 2015. It hosts exhibits on the most iconic products of Toto and their evolution, the group companies (all of which are made from ceramics) as well as the history of plumbing and products such as bath units. In a separate gallery you will find Toto products sold all over. The museum also has a bathroom that includes a WASHLET toilet and other toilet-related innovations.
Before beginning the formation of Toto members of the group did session work for various musicians. Keyboardist David Paich, drummer Jeff Porcaro and guitarists Mike Porcaro and Steve Lukather all played on the album Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs. They also appeared on records by Steely Don, Seals and Crofts and Sonny and Cher.
Discography
With a name like Asia, you would think that the group would be prog kings and queens however, it's actually a fairly straightforward rock group. The group was formed as a four-piece and released two albums that were self-titled in 1979 and 1980's Armed to the Teeth. Although the band have a diverse musical background their biggest breakthrough was achieved in 1982 with Toto IV.
The album was a major blockbuster, but it was not without its share of problems. Record companies placed the band on the spot with the ultimatum "give us an album that's a smash or we'll sack you" and the pressure was on to give it. Toto was able to achieve this through the aid of the smash hit "Africa."
Toto's musical mastery is due to their previous experiences, as the band members were session musicians for artists such as Boz Scaggs, Steely Dan, and Seals and Crofts prior to forming the group. Their sonic trademark has become the standard of the '80s, and has influenced many contemporary artists.
The album starts out hard with songs like Running Out of Time or Unknown Soldier that show the band's ability to create great AOR tunes that slowly creep into your head. But the album also contains some more mellow, jazzy tracks, like The Little Things and Chinatown. The album concludes with Great Expectations, a song that mixes folk with distorted AOR and could sound totally wrong, but works amazingly well.
After Toto IV,
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Toto released Isolation despite the turbulence. It was not as well-liked as IV. The group managed to release an album that was chart-topping, Kingdom of Desire, in 1992. This album marked the end of the original Toto lineup and was also the first album featuring the new singer, Simon Phillips.
Tours
The band has performed all over the world to a global audience of millions, with sold-out shows across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and New Zealand. The band's repertoire is huge and their catalogue has accumulated over a billion streams on streaming services worldwide. The band's music has been influential to many generations of fans.
Steve Lukather has forged a colorful, 토지노 사이트 (
you can find out more) deep friendship with Joe Williams that is flourishing professionally around the world. In 2018, the duo celebrated 40 Tours Around the Sun with a hugely successful global tour. The album that bears the same name reached #5 on Billboard 200. The band's new tour features their greatest hits and rarely performed live deep cuts, along with a selection of songs from Lukather and Williams their individual catalogs.
TOTO has an NP Score of 20. This score measures the likelihood that customers will recommend the brand. Promoters are those who rate the company highly and actively encourage others to utilize their products or services. Detractors are those who rate the company poorly, and may even actively discourage others from using their products or services.
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Line-up
The album's third, Turn Back, marked the return to the traditional sextet format of previous albums and was a stronger, more constant effort with an edge that was stronger than Hydra. The more edgy sound of the album was indicative of the maturation of group and included drummer Bobby Kimball's greater ability on the drums and an improved, mature vocal delivery from singer Joseph Williams. David Paich's keyboard work was as well more refined, more precise and less akin to previous recordings.
After touring to promote the album, the group recorded a live performance in Amsterdam that was released as a two-CD set titled Falling In Between Live on Eagle Records. A new studio album followed just a few months later and the group went on a world-wide tour in support of the album. During this time, keyboardist Greg Phillinganes replaced Paich and bassist David Hungate quit the group to spend time with his family.
In 1998, Paich & Lukather began exploring old tapes and demos to discover songs that had never been recorded prior to. The album was released as a double-album titled Then and Now in 2001. It was the band's first album that did not contain a single song titled "A". The album also contained a previously unreleased track titled "Kari-Anne".
By 2003, Toto had begun to decline in popularity. The group's fourth record, Old Is New was a commercial failure and vocalist Williams was suffering from laryngitis, which restricted his singing capabilities. Hungate also returned to Nashville and Leland Sklar's drumming duties were replaced by Shem Von Schroeck.
Downes along with the other members of Asia--Wetton, Palmer, and Howe--convened a meeting in England in early 2006 to discuss the possibility of officially reforming the group. This lineup, with the exception of Howe (who was working with Yes at the time) was eventually referred to as Toto XIV and toured extensively.
In 2010, the band reunited for another reunion tour with a slightly different line-up, including guitarists Mike Porcaro and Steve Lukather, drummer John Pierce, bassist Shannon Forrest, and multi-instrumentalists Warren Ham and Dominique Taplin. The band featured a special guest appearance from singer Michael McDonald and a backing vocalist named Mabvuto Carver.
