“Crossed and inhabited by the flood of images of human migrations coming from all parts, it is the words of the chorus that first came to my mind. The most significant act of life is movement. “Alive” is also to be somewhere else but without being cut off from a part of oneself. This song marks a meeting in resonance with the co-author, multidisciplinary artist (author-director-actor) Jule Japhet. This introspective movement allows us to anchor in order to enter into consciousness in communion with humanity.”

— Gérald Toto

Gérald Toto’s music sways to the rhythms of life.

The songs on his new album don’t shout or seek to batter you over the head.

Like all the best music, they insinuate their way quietly into your brain like ear

worms with a benevolent and beguiling subtlety.

Gentle and lilting yet lithesome and full of bold nuance, the music Toto

makes on Sway takes us on an imaginary journey to a world that has time to

stop and stare and where the frenetic din of modernity is hushed to a

murmur, his songs seemingly plucked from an infinite bowl of fresh air and

sunshine as they wrap the listener in a sweet caress of timeless reverie.

Like all the best music, the songs on Sway refuse simple categorisation, a

cultural melting pot of acoustic folk, jazz, soul, pop and blues with

cosmopolitan borders that embrace Creole and Caribbean flavours.

The rhythms of life, plucked and strummed and given poetic voice by a

master of the understated. For if quiet is the new loud, Toto’s voice is

blessed with an elegant eloquence that demands to be heard as his songs

whisper and sway in an emotional language that is as universal as it is

engaging.