One of them, Vent, Pluie, Sable, inspired for its larger part by African music, and entirely performed on fretless guitar, left me so a painful memory that I didn't want to make a CD of it. At this time, I was gradually recovering use of my left hand, seriously injured in an accident, and the fretless guitar work, as the most difficult, seemed to me the most appropriate for re-education. I bitterly verified the opposite result. Numerous complications set in leading to new operations.

This project, though achieved, finally stayed unreleased. Therefore I decided to share it completely and freely on this site.

One title, Kalimba 2, appears on the CD "Traces".

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Undertook as my left arm was immobilized, most of its titles has been outlined on a little keyboard, some sort of toy which was at home at this time.

Little by little, as I was recovering use of my hand, guitar appeared and pieces filled out. Some keyboard parts has been however kept.

See text on Le Mont Analogue page.

When I stopped solo concerts, in 2001, I gathered some titles on a CD, in order to keep a trace of this period, from which the name of the album.

Most of these titles have been re-recorded in my studio, except Kalimba 2, which I took from Vent, Pluie, Sable.

The piece Les Deux Mondes (The Two Worlds) has been later fitted for the group Yang and features on the album "A Complex Nature", to be released on Cuneiform Records in September 2004.

I finished it at the end of 2002, as I began the very first rehearsals with Yang.

On this CD, I gathered rather meditative pieces, a bit reacting against the aggressiveness of my work at this moment with the improvisers trio K.L.P. and the first titles of Yang.

These are rather light, repetitive titles, quite propitious to contemplation or love...