Kitchenette

by

Gerald Toto

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This new release is complex, seducing and extremely refined in its making. The sublime opening song, (“Par temps calme”), is a languid ballad which is poetic like a Gauguin painting. Of the other tracks, some have a delicately spicy sensuality (“Tes dessous”), and others paint vivid Brétecher-like sketches with poetic and subtly political digressions (“No Man's Land”, “L'eau Martienne”). You can also find sensitive, unsettlingly erotic portraits in the tracks “Rose ou Violet” and “Sèche”. The album contains an amazingly varied range of songs, beating with delicately groovy rhythms, clad in sophisticated arrangements which favour the acoustic style -- entwined guitars, flute, saxophone. All tracks are magnificently transformed by the enthralling voice of a Gerald Toto at the peak of his artistry.