Baptism by Fire

Paris Toon fea. Mother's Favorit Child

The Soul Jazz music of the Paris Toon project "Baptism by Fire", revolves around the mother of all emotions, Love. As many individuals have experienced, love can fuel so many other emotions and sensations and it can also take many shapes, sometimes making it vulnerable to misinterpretation.

Lust, mistrust, admiration, honesty, intensity . . . these are all stops along the way on this journey through a human soul. This is a true "Baptism by Fire".

This is an album on a mission to expose truth in sounds and words. TRUTH - minor and major, raucous and romantic, soulful and . . . spiritual. The man behind the soul jazz music is Paris Toon, producer, lyricist, composer and driving force of all that he engages in. Paris ritualistically defaults to his "gut" when the time comes to gather musicians and give birth to new songs. This is the method to his rarely observed madness.

Since Mothers Favorite Child is a product of this method, it is only natural that its jazz musicians and soul vocalists would be chosen to provide the soundtrack to the more deeply shaded thoughts of Paris Toon, the man.