Cuneiform
1983
Crawling Wind
About This Album
Most Univers Zero recordings originally appeared on the small French Atem and Cyronic labels, and were not exactly easy to obtain at the time of their initial release. But the long out of print Crawling Wind was recorded as an EP for Eastern Works, the Japanese division of Recommended Records (ReR), and it has achieved a kind of cult status over the years because of its even greater rarity. The original EP was recorded at what was quite possibly Univers Zero's creative peak, after their first three LPs and before they started moving away from acoustic chamber rock and toward a sound that was a little more conventionally electric. The three pieces on the EP (two studio recordings and one live track) are supplemented on Cuneiform's CD reissue with two additional live tracks, plus "Influences," a studio piece previously released only on ReR's 1983 two-disc Rock in Opposition sampler, which featured other iconoclastic bands/artists of the time, such as Art Bears, Faust, Henry Cow, and Robert Wyatt. The mixture of studio and live tracks (and the different times and places of the recordings) doesn't allow Crawling Wind to generate quite the intensity of UZ's three prior recordings -- 1313, Heresie, and Ceux Du Dehors.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3 and 4)

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