Welcome to the official Univers Zéro’s web page !

We have some information regarding our history, discography, photo gallery with never published photos, a download session where you can see some small extracts of shows, a mailing list you can subscribe to receive news and an e-mail address for contact (for booking shows and interviews) and more is coming. We hope you enjoy.

Daniel Denis

• Recently we have taken the hard decision to continue without
Andy Kirk. Besides his good humanity side and his great musicianship,
he was quite unavailable for demand that band needs now, due to his
duties with his new job. Also, the directions, envisaged by Andy for
UZ´s future, were not shared by the others members of the band. We
wish him the best of luck in his new endeavor. We will try to have
Andy enhancing Univers Zero at Le Triton, next October, for DVD
recording. He will seat in to play Warrior and Funeral Plain.

We are very excited to announce that the keyboard seat will
be filled by Pierre Chevalier, which was invited to play with Univers
Zero in 1999, in a line up that never really existed. Pierre is
keyboard player of Present and he will be the right guy to play our
music.

Daniel Denis

• Friday January 30, 2009 at 20 p.m
Centre Culturel "LE WAUX-HALL"
Place Albert Ier
1400 NIVELLES-BELGIUM
tel: 00 32 67 882277
waux-hall@nivelles.be
www.nivelles.be

Univers Zéro will also be playing at RIO Festival 2009
More about this soon!

• Univers Zero at Le Triton
November 14 and 15, 2008
The two concerts will be filmed for the DVD release.

Le Triton
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

• Finally an archive CD is coming with live recordings from 1984,
1985 and 1986. UNIVERS ZERO- ARCHIVES 1984/85/86 (NO NAME YET)
It is coming out on Cuneiform Records and will be
available (probably) early 2009

The set list is:

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)

Booklet with new photos and liner notes by Aymeric Leroy an

•Re-release: The new edition of Univers Zéro 1st Lp (aka 1313) is out May 13, 2008.

• Sunday, September 14, 2008
- FMPM - Salle Pierre Mercure of the Centre Pierre Péladeau
(near the campus of the Université du Québec, corner St-Denis street)
300 De Maisonneuve Blvd. East, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3X6
Canada - 300 De Maisonneuve Blvd. East, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3X6
Canada

1. July 2007

• 1313 will be remastered and reissued with bonus tracks.

• New album will be recorded at the end of year 2007. Possible title: Clivages.

9. April 2007

• Photos and comments by Frédéric Loridant on show of March 25 at the "SPIRIT OF 66": http://www.photorock.com

• UZ now on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/universzero

28. December 2006

• The band Metropolis with Daniel Denis's son Nicolas, will be support act at the venue 'SPIRIT OF 66' on March the 25th 2007. It will be their first appearance on stage. Nicolas DENIS (Drums) Julien FULCO (guitare) Jérôme ROOSA (basse)

25. December 2006

• Karel Šuster took these great photos at a very successful UZ-concert in Pokladna Divadla Archa, Praha, Czech Republic, 1. December 2006: http://www.fotografuje.cz/link/Alt06/01.12.06/index.php?no=12


1. October 2006

• The Contemporary Ensemble "Ensemble Polychronies" from Toulon (France) requested Daniel Denis to write a musical piece for them to play. The premiere is scheduled for April 7, 2007, in Toulon, France.
The tune is called "L'Ogre et ses Appâts" and it will happen at "Musée d'Art". It is a piece for two keyboards players/two percusionists players/ violin and acoustic guitar

• Univers Zéro is going in the studio in the summer 2007 for recording sessions of the new CD.
It will possibly be released on january 2008 on Cuneiform Records. The new CD will bring compositions by Andy Kirk, Michel Berckmans, Eric Plantain, Kurt Bude, and Daniel Denis (of course).

3. January 2006

• The new album 'Univers Zero Live' will be available from www.waysidemusic.com 14. January. More information about the album here .
Buy the album here: http://www.waysidemusic.com/

24. October 2005

• Three mp3-excerpts from the coming live album here and more coming concertdates listed at the Coming Concerts page (look also in the navigation menu to the left).

2. September 2005

• Info about the coming live album is online (Discography - bottom).
(available from Cuneiform records, January 2006)

18. august 2005

• Interview with Daniel Denis from 2000, but published now in the Interview section

12. July 2005

• Univers Zero recorded both shows in June, at Les Tritonales and at Les Halles de Schaerbeek. A live CD will come out from these two performances. Mixing sessions start in August and the new CD should be probably out in January or May, on Cuneiform Records.

• Univers Zero needs a booking agent. If you are in Europe and think you can help, contact Daniel Denis at
universzerocontact@yahoo.com

11. may 2005

• Peter VANDENBERGHE has a huge amount of commitments for late this year and won't be able to fulfill his place on keyboards on UZ and he is being replaced for the next 2005 season (after September), but he will be welcome back whenever possible for him.

• Andy KIRK will be the new keyboard player; UZ will possibly perform Warrior (Andy Kirk´s lost composition for UZ – an amazing follow up of Combat).

• Daniel is also planning to have a parallel acoustic version of UZ, only acoustic instruments (but bass), with Peter instead of Andy on piano, no drum kit, just percussion.

• Cover of a limited 2005 edition of Heresie (13 copies made), signed by Daniel Denis and Philippe Seynaeve. The Heresie page.

• New Video for download: Philippe Seynaeve have created a video for the tune 'Partch's X-Ray' (from Implosion 2004).
Go to the download page.

• This page got a small movie created by Philippe Seynaeve. It's based on a UZ-concertposter from 1982, which you in a while can find via the gallerypage.

• In September, 2005

ART ZOYD and Musiques Nouvelles are releasing the "EXPERIENCE DE VOL Nr. 4/ 5 and 6" (triple CD) including Daniel Denis's composition "Shanghaï Revisited Talks".