Toboggan

Description

Singer-songwriter from Lorraine, Alex Toucourt makes his mark with an authentic and unique musical signature thanks to a strong, multifaceted, and modern identity. A self-taught guitarist since the age of 8, he gradually became a multi-instrumentalist and began writing and singing to create his first solo album "studiOrange," which brought him to public attention in 2010. With it, he laid the foundations for an "acousticool" universe, blending guitar, a warm voice, and melodies that stick from the first listen. This was followed by "Mémoire d'Éléphant Rose" in 2013, deepening his more mature songwriting and profound atmospheres, and then "Le Fruit du Bazar," produced like the previous one by Dominique Ledudal, released in 2021, which confirms this expanded palette: pop-folk, multi-layered arrangements, and chiseled lyrics. This album is notably marked by a very successful duet collaboration with JP Nataf (from the band Les Innocents) on the track "À Demi-Mot." Alex Toucourt now returns with TOBOGGAN, a 4th album with a keen gaze that observes and questions. Recorded between August and September 2025, this new opus, co-arranged and co-produced with Alexis Campet, marks a consolidation of his universe, imbued with a freshness that fully anchors him in the present. The title TOBOGGAN suggests a strong image: movement, a slide, a back-and-forth between height and descent, between the giddiness of childhood and adult reflection. It evokes play, risk, freshness, the ability to climb back up or change direction. Through its 11 songs, finely clad in pop, folk, and sometimes rap and slam beats, TOBOGGAN is an album where words matter, in which Alex shares a tender look at the world, at us, tinged with melancholy and mischief, poetry and hope.