« Ne serait-ce qu’une fois hélas

Ne serait-ce qu’un instant fugace 

Aurais-je su toucher « La Grâce » ? 

Aurais-je su toucher les gens 

Autant que ceux qui m’ont touché ?  

Trouver la part d’humanité qu’on a tous indifféremment » 

These are the last words you will ever hear on an Alain Chamfort record.

After L'IMPERMANENCE Alain Chamfort never recorded another album. And that's his decision. It's not that he won't be composing or recording again. It's just that he probably won't be making another album. The high point of a recording career that began just over 50 years ago, "L'impermanence" is like a major work. Profound. Poignant. Almost twilight. 

ALAIN CHAMFORT is not "up to the standard" of his "Apocalypse heureuse". He is simply an artist of great lucidity. Of a rare exigency. Rare like the place he now occupies on the French music scene.

Rare like this album, whose compass is unmistakably the desire to bring his discography to a close "En beauté".