NEOBORIS - Helas

"Hélas collects 15 songs from the repertoire of Neoboris , an infamous Bordeaux/Pau duo highly active in the late '90s and early '00s. Drawing on direct punk, wave, rave culture and "Variété Française" influences, Hélas functions as a perfect time capsule of a very specific era and mood: a boy-and-girl duo celebrating their love for boys, in melancholy and beauty. "I met Boris in the early '90s. I was a hardcore raver and sang in various punk bands in Bordeaux. Boris was more romantic and had grown up with new wave and goth. He was a natural-born singer-songwriter. We shared a deep passion for Elli et Jacno , Taxi Girl , or Mathematiques Modernes . We started giving wild concerts across our region in the South West of France and gradually playing everywhere all the way to Paris. Boris' untimely death in 2008 was a shock. Today, I still perform Boris' songs everywhere I can because I just want to preserve his spirit. Singing with him then, now, and forever." -- Eve Dequidt , 2025"