Univers Zero

Location: Cap Decouverte, FranceConcert date: 17.09.2009Attendance: 600Ticket price: 80/100 € That time of year has rolled around again, when all of us fans of the movement known as Rock in opposition make our way to France - a movement…

Venue: Posthof / Linz / AustriaConcert date: March 18, 2009Attendance: 50 When you get the chance to catch a show like Univers Zero, you have to go, if you're a fan, even if that means heading to a town like Linz. Linz isn't exactly the…

After a break of more than a decade and two solo releases from Daniel Denis, Univers Zero have risen again, this time under the total command of Daniel Denis. The last album, Heatwave (1987), was so gorgeous that it was something of a…

What could possibly follow an album like UZED? The perfection they showed there seems almost unbeatable. But Univers Zero didn't even try to repeat what they did on their previous record. With Heatwave they've gone off into yet another…

By the time of Ceux du Dehors, Univers Zero had probably hit the peak of their creative powers, but there was no time to rest. They were back to gigging hard, mostly in smaller venues. Throughout all of this

After Ceux du Dehors, which many people consider the peak of Univers Zero's career, bandleader Daniel Denis decided to shake things up a bit. The lineup for Uzed was completely different. The oboe, bassoon and English horn were repla

Two years after Heresie, Univers Zero returned to the music scene. Roger Trigaux was no longer with them. By then he had founded Present (where Denis also helped out on drums). Trigaux wanted to make more electric music, while Denis wasn't…

Univers Zero's second album continues down the path laid out by the first. Co-founders Roger Trigaux and Daniel Denis created an original take on chamber rock that draws heavily on the European classical tradition. At times it feels like