Don't you wish you could see these two bands on the same bill in the USA?
You can!
This is the world's first appearance of these two legendary bands performing on the same bill, and the debut performance for either band in Washington D.C.
Don't miss this extremely rare opportunity to see Univers Zero and Miriodor perform live in the USA!
Ticket details below:
UNIVERS ZERO
"Chamber music for the Apocalypse" – Keyboard
"Univers Zero conceptualize the Europe of the late 20th Century...dense, desperate and dark; ...above all beautiful and dramatic; strongly marked by the cultural traditions of Europe. ...Univers Zero may be classified somewhere between Bach and Bartok, Magma and Stravinsky...They represent something new, monumental and important..." – Puls [Norway]
The Belgian group Univers Zero is legendary for its ominous, unsettling and uncompromising musical vision – a sound and stance that Keyboard describes as "Chamber music for the Apocalypse." Simultaneously medieval and modern, its distinctive, dark, and elegantly beautiful instrumental music fused classical and rock musics to give birth to an unprecedented and remarkably prescient new musical genre called "chamber rock". UZ's singular sound derives from its unique instrumentation (classical acoustic and electric rock instruments, and electronics), combined with brooding gothic imagery, elements of European folk and other world musics, the iconoclasm and intensity of rock, the relentless sonic experimentation of the avant-garde, and leader/ chief composer/ drummer Daniel Denis' classically inspired writing style, influenced by early 20th Century avant-garde classical composers. The band has remained on the cutting edge of New Music throughout the course of a career that began in the '70s – it was one of the 5 founding bands of the “Rock In Opposition” movement [a European coalition for alternative music] – and continues today, stretching and disintegrating the boundaries of classical and rock music alike to create a new, vital and unique fusion.Today, several decades after Univers Zero first forged its unique "chamber rock", critics cite its oeuvre as the precursor to the best avant-garde rock and classical music of the present day, from 'post-rock', associated with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kayo Dot and other instrumental rock bands – to the numerous late 20th/early 21st century classical chamber ensembles who are integrating rock into their repertoire, such as Bang on a Can, Kronos Quartet and others.
Visit Univers Zero Online:
www.univers-zero.com
www.myspace.com/universzero
MIRIODOR
"…densely packed with ideas yet paradoxically light in feel, offering up something new for the senses at every turn. The music is both entertainingly accessible and startlingly inventive…
…one of the finest bands ever to emerge from the Quebec musique actuele scene.” – All Music Guide
"…they are one of the finest exponents of the RIO sub genre on the market today. Always inventive, always surprising and always just a little off-kilter."
– ghostland.com
"…full of fire and eclecticism."– Gibraltar
Birthplace of the world-famous Cirque du Soleil, the performing arts troupe who reinvented the circus for the new Millennium, and the critically-acclaimed band Miriodor, whose genre-transcendent musical acrobatics catapult instrumental rock into the 21st Century, Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec is an artistic hotbed. Looking internally and to Europe for inspiration while attempting to avoid influence from the entertainment industry in the United States, Quebecois artists have produced some of the most radically innovative music and performing arts to emerge from North America. Among the numerous highly original and uncompromising musical cooperatives – Ambiance Magnetiques/D.A.M.E., Godspeed You ! Black Emperor, and more– operating in French Canada in the decades surrounding the new Millennium, the key musical resource on the internet, the All Music Guide, singled out Miriodor as “…one of the finest bands ever to emerge from the Quebec musique actuele scene.”
A Montreal-based quartet, Miriodor create instrumental music that is complex, playful, visually evocative, and exquisitely performed. The band describes its sound as “like a soundtrack for a movie, a movie with weird and strange stories,” and indeed, each CD is like a book of short video stories, each differing in subject and mood. The band’s gem-like compositions, each as intricate as an Escher drawing and entertaining as fun-house mirrors, have been praised as “ominous, ferocious, and zany…complex musical mayhem” [Sea of Tranquility], exuding “a darkly comic dysfunction Tim Burton would give his eyeteeth for.” [Michigan Independent]. Miriodor’s distinctive compositions and rigorous musicianship have identified it as the main Canadian exponent of the R.I.O. (Rock In Opposition) sound with a light-hearted, unpresumptuous, and sincerely entertaining twist.
Visit Miriodor Online:
www.miriodor.com
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 7pm
La Maison Française / Embassy of France
4101 Reservoir Rd. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
202.944.6400
http://houseoffrancedc.org
ALL AGES
TICKETS: $45
(available online @ http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org)
The 10th annual Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music & beyond will begin in less than two weeks!
Below is the complete schedule of events and locations:
Saturday, September 18, 2010
La Maison Française
3:30pm
The Muffins (MD/NC/VA)
Hume (DC)
Vector Trio (DC)
Pilesar (DC)
8pm
Magma (France)
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Fairfax Old Town Hall
11am-11pm
Music Marathon Overload!
Illusion of Safety (Chicago)
The Cornel West Theory (DC)
Controlled Bleeding (NY)
Astma (Alexei Borisov & Olga Nosova) (Russia)
Fuse Ensemble (DC)
Nobu Stowe - Lee Pembleton Project "Confusion Bleue" with Special Guest: Andrea Centazzo
(Japan/LA/NY/Baltimore/Italy)
Corridors (NYC)
Colla Parte (Perry Conticchio, Rich O'Meara, Daniel Barbiero) (DC)
RDK+Insect Factory (DC)
Aster - Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul (Providence)
Mercury Fools the Alchemist (DC)
Matta Gawa (DC)
Kingdom of Sharks (VA)
Dave Vosh (DC)
Borborites (DC)
Monday, September 20, 2010
Strathmore Mansion
8pm
Trophies (Baltimore/Brooklyn)
Gestures (DC)
Lost Civilizations (DC)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Strathmore Mansion
8pm
Fennesz (Austria)
Arturas Bumsteinas + Janel & Anthony (Lithuania/DC)
Low End String Quartet (DC)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
6pm - FREE!
Andrea Centazzo (Italy)
The Fridge
8pm
Keith Fullerton Whitman (MA)
expo 70 (Kansas City)
Ancient Ocean (Brooklyn)
Li Tieqiao (China) & John Howard (DC)
Violet (DC)
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Fridge
8pm
Night of 100 Lock Grooves - District of Noise Vol.3 Release Party
DJ/turntable abuse/live sets by
U.S. Girls (Philadelphia)
BLK w/BEAR (DC)
Sean Peoples (DC)
Tone Ghosting (DC)
Cole Goins (DC)
Friday, September 24, 2010
La Maison Française
8pm
Merzbow+Richard Pinhas (Japan/France)
Blue Sausage Infant (DC)
TL0741 (DC)
Saturday, September 25, 2010
La Maison Française
7pm
Univers Zero (Belgium)
Miriodor (Canada)
The website for the festival with complete information is here: http://dc-soniccircuits.org/
Ticketing information is here: http://dc-soniccircuits.org/festival/2010/#tickets
RICHARD PINHAS
September 24 - Richard Pinhas + Merzbow - Sonic Circuits Festival - La Maison Française - 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest - Washington, DC 20007-2170
September 29 - Richard Pinhas + Wolf Eyes - The Floristree - Baltimore, MD
September 30 - Richard Pinhas + Wolf Eyes - The Secret Project Robot Art Experiment - 210 Kent Ave - Brooklyn, NY, 11211 (917) 860.8282
October 1 - The Temple - 670 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain MA 02130 (with:
Jason Lescalleet, Schurt Kwitters (Jess from Fat Worm), Vile Bodies)
October 2 - tbd - with the Sonic Circuit all-stars
October 6 & 7 - Jan Eyck Academy - Maastricht, Holland (note: this is a lecture/conference about music - not a concert)
October 20 - Pop Philosophie Festival - Marseille, France
UNIVERS ZERO
September 25 - Sonic Circuits Festival - La Maison Française - 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest - Washington, DC 20007-2170
UPSILON ACRUX
September 2 - The Sex - 816 Santa Fe. Ave - Los Angeles, CA (with Kid Infinity, Briefcase Scenario, Halloween Swim Team) Free show!
UZ JSME DOMA
September 23 - Daniel Street Club - 21 Daniel Street - Milford, CT
September 25 - Building 16 - 95 Empire Street - Providence, RI
September 26 - Lesco - 4467 St Denis - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
September 28 - Zaphod Beeblebox - 27 York Street - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
September 29 - Sneaky Dee's - 431 College Street (at Bathurst) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 30 - Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue - Rochester, NY 14607-3527
(585) 454-2966
October 1 - The Rock Shop - 249 4th Avenue - Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 230-5740
October 2 - 12th Annual Czech Street Festival - 83rd Street between Madison & Park Ave. - NYC, NY Free! 12-7 pm (with Zuby Nehti)
October 4 - Maxwell's - 1039 Washington Street - Hoboken, NJ (201)653-1703
October 5 - M Room - 15 West Girard Avenue - Philadelphia, PA 19123-1707 (215) 739-5577
October 6 - Black Cat - 1811 14th St. NW - Washington, DC 20009
October 8 - Now That's Class - 11213 Detroit Avenue - Cleveland, OH
Ocober 9 - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C - Baltimore, Md. 21230
ZEVIOUS
huge entire USA tour (well, they may have to skip Boise) - mid March - mid April, 2011. watch for more info here as we get it
How does a group follow up an auspicious and unique debut recording? A recording that is so completely out of step with everything that is currently in fashion in popular and even in experimental music that nearly 35 years later, it still is able to surprise people hearing it for the first time. How? Well, if you were Univers Zero, you did it by moving even more to the extremes of your music. While the influences from 20th Century classical music (Stravinsky, Bartok, Huybrechts) mixed with aspects of progressive rock (the angularity of King Crimson added to the unique Zeuhl sound of Magma) remain, they are stripped down and presented in the starkest and darkest way possible. Guitarist Roger Trigaux still plays some amazing licks, but for much of the album, he is hunched over the harmonium (a 19th century pump organ), which gives the music an eerie, gothic sound - a gothic sound matched by the other front line instruments of violin/viola and oboe/bassoon. Meanwhile the rhythm section is completely electric, with heavy Magma-influenced bass and with Daniel Denis' fantastic drumming propelling everything forward.
Originally released in 1979, Heresie has long been considered a high-water mark of new music composition, performance, and dark, sinister intensity for over 30 years and has never been out of print. This reissue transforms and updates Univers Zero’s most infamous work with a new cover that uses bits of the original packaging, as well as many new elements. It also has a striking and clear new remix from the 1979 multi-track tapes that defines and clarifies all the instruments in a way that is much more focused than previous editions. Never have Daniel's cymbals so clearly sizzled with such menace or has Guy's bass gone so low into the underworld. The reissue is accompanied by a 16-page booklet containing a history of the band’s years during the Heresie period and illustrated with archival photos. Lastly, there is a 12 minute, revelatory bonus track from very early in the group's life added; a track that later was cannibalized by its composer, into bits that would eventually find their way into "Ersatz" on Le Poison Qui Rend Fou and "The Limping Little Girl" and "Ceux D'En Bas (Suite)" on N°6 by Roger's post UZ group, Present. One of the most significant avant-progressive rock albums of the very late 1970s just got even more significant!
Due out for September.
Original Track Listing:
1. "La Faulx" (Daniel Denis)
2. "Jack the Ripper" (Daniel Denis, Roger Trigaux)
3. "Vous le saurez en temps voulu" (Roger Trigaux)
Musicians:
Roger Trigaux: guitar, piano, organ, harmonium
Guy Segers: bass, voice
Michel Berckmans: oboe, bassoon
Patrick Hanappier: violin, viola
Daniel Denis: drums, percussion
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
July 23 - Pori, Finland
July 24 - San Sebastian, Spain
September 10 - Cornelia Street Cafe - 29 Cornelia St - New York, 10014 (212) 989-9318
September 11 - Cornelia Street Cafe - 29 Cornelia St - New York, 10014 (212) 989-9318
late September/early October - midwest tour - dates t/b/a
ERGO
November 12 - BAM Cafe - 30 Lafayette Avenue - Brooklyn, NY 8:30 pm - FREE!
LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
July 9 - Marlborough Jazz Festival - Marlborough, UK
July 11 - Lounge on the Farm - Canterbury, UK
July 15 - Gala Theatre - Durham, UK (with Empirical)
August 3 - Ronnie Scott's - London, UK (Double Bill with Phronesis
August 29 - Saalfelden Jazz Festival - Saalfelden, Austria
November 27 - The Shed - Brawby, Malton, UK
MATS/MORGAN BAND
July 17 - Nefertiti - Gothenburg, Sweden
July 22 - Fasching - Kungsgatan 63 - Stockholm, Sweden
October 23 - Gouveia Art Rock - Gouveia, Portugal
December 11 - Pjeireblues - Belgium (with Jimmy Ågren Band)
MIRIODOR
September 19 - Rock in Opposition Festival 2010 - Cap Decouverte - 81450 Le Garric (Carmaux) France
September 25 - Sonic Circuits Festival - La Maison Francais - 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest - Washington, DC 20007-2170 (Miriodor will be opening for Univers Zero)
THE MUFFINS
September 4-5 - ProgDay - Storybook Farm - Chapel Hill, NC
September 18 - Sonic Circuits Festival - La Maison Francais - 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest - Washington, DC 20007-2170 (The Muffins will be playing shortly before Magma, although it is a separate admission. Also on the bill: Pilesar, Vector Trio, Hume )
ED PALERMO BIG BAND
August 25 - Echo Lake Park - Mountainside, NJ (show at 7:30 - Playing the music of Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield)
RICHARD PINHAS
July 8 - Resonance Festival - Istanbul, Turkey
July 13 - Center of Humanities of Utrecht - Amsterdam, Holland
July 28 - Sajeta Festival - Slovenia
September 24 - Richard Pinhas + Merzbow - Sonic Circuits Festival - La Maison Francais - 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest - Washington, DC 20007-2170
October 6 & 7 - Jan Eyck Academy - Maastricht, Holland (note: this is a lecture/conference about music - not a concert)
October 20 - Pop Philosophie Festival - Marseille, France
UNIVERS ZERO
September 25 - Sonic Circuits Festival - La Maison Francais - 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest - Washington, DC 20007-2170
UZ JSME DOMA (new CD "Caves" released in September!)
US tour - September 23 to October 10. Watch for more details asap
VOLAPUK
September 3 - Villeneuve lez Avignon - Avignon, France : 20th anniversary of Inouï Productions
ZEVIOUS
huge entire USA tour (well, they may have to skip Boise) - mid February - mid March 2011. watch for more info here as we get it
Info courtesy of label president Steve Feigenbaum:
BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC (special tour to promote "Dawn of the Cycads", so founding member Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) is performing with the group in place of current member Ken Field, and all material will be vintage - 1988 or earlier)
July 23 - AS220 - 115 Empire St. - Providence, Rhode Island 02903
July 24 - Mercury Lounge - 217 E. Houston St - NYC, NY
July 25 - Kung Fu Necktie - 1250 North Front St. - Philadelphia, PA
July 26 - Talking Head - 407 East Saratoga St. - Baltimore, MD 21202 - buy advance tix
July 30 - Johnny D's - 17 Holland St. - Somerville, MA 02144
DAVID BORDEN/MOTHER MALLARD [40th anniversary celebration]
July 26 - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - Cornell University Campus - Central & University Ave. - Ithaca, NY. 14853-4001
CHEER-ACCIDENT
October 24 - The Philadephia Experiment: New Music Festival - The Rotunda - University of Pennsylvnania - 4014 Walnut Street - Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 573-3234 (with CHEER-ACCIDENT (headliner), Fern Knight, The Red Masque and Make A Rising) all ages - FREE but donations for the bands requested.
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
July 8 - Barbican Hall - London, UK (opening for Medeski, Martin and Wood)
October - west coast USA touring
DJAM KARET
August 22 - Crescendo Festival - Saint Palais-sur-Mer, France
DOCTOR NERVE
July 12 - Le Poisson Rouge - 158 Bleeker Street, NY, NY (7:30pm Todd Reynold solo violin and electronics / 8:30pm Doctor Nerve / 9:30pm Dither Guitar Quartet)
ERGO (our latest signing! CD out in September!)
September 22 - Sonic Circuits Festival - Washington, DC
FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
September 30 - Sunset Club - Paris, France
December 5 - Theatre de Sens - Sens, France
June - NEARFest - Zoellner Auditorium - Bethlehem, PA
GUAPO
September 18-20 (Guapo meets GMEA) - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
GUTBUCKET
June 27 - Danger Danger Gallery - 5013 Baltimore Avenue - Philadelphia, PA (CD release show!) (with Elliot Levin Trio)
November 10 - Lemoyne College - Syracuse, NY
HAMSTER THEATRE
July 3 - Trident Booksellers and Cafe - 940 Pearl Street - Boulder, CO
October 17 - Edgefest - The Firefly Club - 637 South Main Street - Ann Arbor, MI : 9:00 PM
LED BIB
July 1st - rebroadcast of their gig at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. It was recorded for NPS Radio 6 in Holland. It will be broadcast in it's entirety on at 22:00. You can listen on the radio in Holland or on www.radio6.nl everywhere else.
October 2 - The Vortex - 11 Gillett Square - London, UK
October 14 - tba - Barnstaple, UK
October 23 - tba - Derby, UK
December 10 - tba - Nottingham, UK
THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT
July 7 - 8 - Vishnufest - Le Poisson Rouge - 158 Bleecker St - NYC, NY
The three part program will consist of:
PROGRAM 1. "The Best of Mahavishnu" -
Highlights from Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame and The Lost Trident Sessions; PROGRAM 2. "Before & After Mahavishnu: The John McLaughlin Songbook" -
Featuring music from Extrapolation, Devotion, Electric Guitarist and the WORLD PREMIERE of several really cool, newly discovered CHORAL WORKS, setting the poetry of guru Sri Chinmoy; PROGRAM 3. "Return to the Emerald Beyond" -
The 11-piece band plays the complete Visions of the Emerald Beyond plus "Smile of the Beyond" and a few fan fave encores.
MATS/MORGAN BAND (Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren with former Meshuggah bassist Gustaf Hilem)
August 16 - 20 - Zaapanle - Germany (with Denny Walley)
MIRIODOR
July 10 - Festival d'été de Québec - Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (outside show - opening for Van der Graaf Generator!)
September 12-13 - FMPM - The Gesù - 1200 De Bleury Street, between St-Catherine Street and René Lévesque Boulevard - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
THE MUFFINS
September 12 - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C - Baltimore, MD
September 18 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
PRESENT
September 19 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
October 31 - Hampshire Jam - Millenium Hall, Liphoo - Hampshire, UK
REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
August 15 - Salem Jazz & Soul Festival - Salem, MA
UNIVERS ZERO
September 20 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
October 13 - Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival - Nancy, France
ZEVIOUS (our latest signing! CD out in September!)
August 14 - Yippie Cafe - 9 Bleecker St - Brooklyn, NY (with Third Space)
August 15 - Avant Gentleman's Lodge - 4028 Filbert St - Philadelphia, PA 19104 (with Make A
Rising, Hume)
August 16 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22201 (703) 525-8646 (with DCIC)
August 17 - Nara - 1309 W. Main St - Richmond, Virginia (w/ The Wayward)
August 18 - DIVEbar - 3 Glenwood Ave - Raleigh, North Carolina - (Free show)
August 19 - BoBo Gallery - 22 Lexington Ave - Asheville, NC (with Shane Perlowin, King Tut)
August 21 - Dada Dollhouse - Winston Salem, NC (with St. Peter Pocket Veto)
August 22 - Hexagon - 1825 N. Charles St - Baltimore, MD (with Expanding Man, others tba)
September 16 - Monkeytown - 58 N. 3rd St - Brooklyn, NY 11211 (with Father Figures, Little Triumph)
from the band's mailing list:Hello UZ-friends,
We have some very exciting news. Andy Kirk is back and Univers Zéro will be performing as a two-keyboards band from now on.
We are planning to start to record our new CD, Clivages, in May.
Several gigs are schedule for 2009 already
March 2009 Concert Dates (some to be confirmed, yet)
• Würzburg / Germany (CAFE CAIRO) March 17th
• Linz/ Austria (POSTHOF) March 19th
• Praha/ Czec Republic (PALAC AKROPOLIS) March 20 th Tickets: http://web.ticketstream.cz/czts/presentation.event.jsp?event=30020
• Dresden/ Germany (JAZZWELTEN) March 21th
• Wroclaw/ Poland March 22, Gothic Hall - 1 Purkyniego Street in Wroclaw. (4th Energy and Sound festival, 21-25 March)
We are looking for dates in Germany, 15 or 16 and 23/24/25. Please if you have interest to book Univers Zero in Germany or in region nearby, contact us at
universzerocontact@yahoo.com
April 2009 Univers Zéro in Mexico
Mexico:
• Puebla Baroque Fringe Festival the 18 in Puebla (outdoors)
• Teatro de la Ciudad Mexico City the 19
• Ecatepec (festival) 24
June -
• Les Tritonales, Le Triton, les Lilas, France 12 and 13 June, 2009 www.letriton.com
11 bis, rue du Coq Français - 93260 LES LILAS (Métro Mairie des Lilas) tél : 01 49 72 83 13 - fax : 01 49 72 83 11 - email : contact@letriton.com
September
Univers Zéro will also be playing at RIO Festival 2009 September 20
more info here http://www.rocktime.org/rio/
We are planning to play with Present at the end of the festival as a single band. We hope it works out!
Also:
An Italian booking agency has agreed to work for some dates around the in the beginning of the next year. If you are in Italy and want to have Univers Zero at your venue, please contact:
Syncretic Srl.
Viale dei Quattro Venti, 166 - 00152 Roma (Italia)
(Loredana Miarelli)
tél: 347/9018466 lorimia@hotmail.it
Our friend Jaak Geebelen shot some marvelous photos from our last concert in Nivelles. take a look at them in the link below. Some of them are widespread in our site as well. http://jaak56.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album180&page=1
More news soon!
Rock In OppositionFriday - September, 18th - 20096 PM Electric Epic Main Hall
9.30 PM Magma 40 # anniversary Main Hall
Saturday - September 19th - 2009
2 pm Charles HAYWARD Main Hall
4:30 pm Aranis Main Hall
7:30 pm Combat Astronomy Main Hall
10:30 pm Koenji Hyakkei Main Hall
Sunday - September 20th - 2009
1 pm Yolk Main Hall
4 pm The Muffins Main Hall
7 pm Present Main Hall
10 pm Univers Zero Main Hall
Grand Finale
Univers Zero + Present
Ticket Info:http://www.rocktime.org/rio/tickets_english.htm
Thanks to Steve F. from Cuneiform/Wayside for posting these dates:GUAPO:
December 5 - Busk - Birmingham, UK
December 9 - L Maroquinerie - Paris, France
December 10 - Vooruit - Gent, Belgium
December 11 - Tivoli - Utrecht, The Netherlands French TV: November 7 - Dax, France - private show
November 9 - Omnibus - Wurzburge, Germany - http://www.omnibus-wuerzburg.de/
November 12 - A La Grotte - Strasbourg, France - http://www.myspace.com/lagrottestrasbourg
November 13 - Le Triton - 11 bis, rue du Coq Français - 93260 Les Lilas (Paris) France (Métro: Mairie des Lilas) / tél : (33) 01 49 72 83 13 - http://www.letriton.com
November 14 - Boulangerie du Prado - Lyon, France - http://www.boulangerieduprado.org
November 15 - Spacio (AltrOck Festival - Sesto San Giovanni (near Milan), Italy - http://www.spaziomil.it
MATS/MORGAN BAND (Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren with former Meshuggah bassist Gustaf Hilem):
December 3 - Metropol - Köpmannag. 11, Härnösand, Sweden ph. 0611102 01
December 4 - Studion - Umeå, Sweden ph. 090156200
December 5 - Musikhuset, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden - http://www.musikhuset.org
December 6 - Pipeline - Kyrkog. 6 - Sundsvall , Sweden ph. 060619940
UNIVERS ZERO:
November 15 - Le Triton - 11 bis, rue du Coq Français - 93260 Les Lilas (Paris) France (Métro: Mairie des Lilas) / tél : (33) 01 49 72 83 13 - http://www.letriton.com/
Friday January 30 - Centre Culturel "LE WAUX-HALL" - Place Albert Ier - 1400 Nivelles, Belgium (32) 67 882277 - http://www.nivelles.be
March 17 - Cafe Cairo - Wurzburg, Germany
March 19 - Posthof - Linz, Austria
March 20 - Palac Akropolis - Prague, Czech Republic
March 21 - Kazzwelten - Dresden, Germany
March 22 - Firlej - Wroclaw, Poland
September - Rock in Opposition Festival - Albi, France - http://www.rocktime.org/rio/
Rock In Opposition France EventApril 17th, 18th & 19th 2009
The first edition of the France R.I.O. Festival, held in Carmaux in 2007, confirmed the enthusiasm of a large audience, coming from all over the world to attend this event, that some have labelled "historic".
To keep away from a certain "routine" that could harm the integrity of our musical choices and to secure firm financial and artistic partnerships, we decided that the next instalment of the France R.I.O. would take place in 2009.
So, the R.I.O. now becomes a biennial event. As the preparation of such an event is time-consuming, this frequency should provide us with the distance needed to conceive a programme as demanding and innovative as the first edition.
Once again, the Rock In Opposition 2009 will be an event of international quality. It will be held in the same musical venue that proved to be the perfect setting for listeners to enjoy really innovative music in optimal conditions: the "Maison de la Musique de Cap Découverte".
With an additional feature however: a special Opening Day will also be organised in Albi.
During the Festival, specific locations will be dedicated to record labels, press representatives or any relevant "movement" showing some fighting spirit in the field of contemporary musical expression.
Specific venues will also be provided to facilitate dialogue between the musicians and the audience.
Additional activities, such as artist residences, workshops, conferences, exhibitions and installations will also be organised within the framework of the festival.
The programme will be finalised by the end of September 2008 but the "Artists" section of the website will be regularly updated in order to keep you informed of "work in progress".
Rock is a struggle, a protest against injustice, a way of resisting everything that degrades the human being and his environment… A way of building a world more like us, a world based on self- and mutual respect… With no constraints and no concessions…
More than ever, Rock has to innovate, provoke, confront… More than ever, Rock has to be in opposition…
Roger Trigaux
From: http://www.somnius.com/amn/2008/05/09/rio-2009-festival-announced/
The tentative lineup includes:
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (USA)
Koenjihyakkei (JP)
Daevid Allen/Hugh Hopper/Chris Cutler (Aus/UK/USA)
Univers Zero (B)
Charles Hayward (UK)
Yolk (F)
Peter Brotzmann (D)
Univers Zero at Le Triton November 14 and 15, 2008
These two concerts will be filmed for the DVD release.
Finally an archive CD is coming with live recordings from 1984, 1985 and 1986. It is coming out on Cuneiform Records and will be available (probably) early 2009
UNIVERS ZERO- ARCHIVES 1984/85/86 (NO NAME YET)
from March 31st, 1984 at The Pavillon in Hannover, Germany
L'ETRANGE MIXTURE DU DOCTEUR SCHWARTZ (Daniel Denis)
PRESAGE (Daniel Denis)
PARADE (Daniel Denis)
from October 9th, 1985 at the Centre culturel de Seraing, Belgium
THE FUNERAL PLAIN (Andy Kirk)
HEATWAVE (Andy Kirk)
L'ETRANGE MIXTURE DU DOCTEUR SCHWARTZ (Free version) (Daniel Denis)*
from February 7th, 1986 at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Germany
EMANATIONS (Daniel Denis)
and a never recorded piece .....from February 25th, 1984 in Dottignies, Belgium
LIGNE CLAIRE (Daniel Denis)
Some notes:
Booklet with new photos and liner notes by Aymeric Leroy and Renato Moraes will probably make part of this wonderful package!
The piece marked with * used to be presented as the encore and sometimes named as L'ETRANGE MIXTURE DU DOCTEUR SPOCK and it is a more weird-free version over the classic DOCTEUR SCHWARTZ!
Andy Kirk thinks this version of THE FUNERAL PLAIN is the best ever performance of this piece! And if you think PRESAGE is energetic enough on UZED, wait to listen to this live version!
Hold your breath!
More concerts to be announced soon!
