1993 release (RARE) ** "This disc, which brings together recent works with two pieces from 1981, allows for a very interesting journey. It is here with Bernard Noël, a relentless questioner of our language, that these Mémoires d’oubli open. With a philharmonic orchestra at its best, which is not always the case when playing contemporary music, the singer Helen Merrill and Bernard Noël himself bring to life a text that goes from simple phonemes to a beautiful poem on the theme of the face. Instrumental music inspired at times by electroaoustics, at other times by serial fragments, shreds of quotations, creates a strange tension to which are added the treatments of the Syter system and the swing of Helen Merrill. Bosseur’s music is strictly speaking a poem in itself, in that it is worth more for what is left unsaid than for the real sounds; it is a long and nostalgic heartbreak. Stream for accordion plays in its own way in the same emotional register. The instrument lends itself to this through its constant reference to popular music, but the subtlety of the disharmonies and the use of long-held sounds, with a clear refusal of gratuitous virtuosity, give a touching and beautiful piece. The Portrait of Geneviève Asse, a tribute to the visual artist, moves away from the light narrative of the previous pieces to an abstract and refined counterpoint between the harpsichord, the harp and the cello. And then, once again, Bosseur takes us into one of those imaginary archaeologies of which he has the secret with Empreintes nocturnes for piano. Written during a surprising exchange with the painter Gaston Planet, this piece explores faded reminiscences, as if in distant echoes, of Satie's music. Finally, we find the world of Erik Satie, or at least a very revisited vision, in Satie's Dream, a piece resulting from an exchange with the poet Kenneth White, a specialist in haiku. Evelyne Razimovsky's voice thus runs with stubborn sweetness through White's minimalist poem, and the instruments (here the remarkable Ensemble Intervalles) provide responses, like an ancient choir reduced to a few voices."