Uzed is the fourth album by BelgianRIO band Univers Zero. Due to a packed touring schedule, the band released this work three years after their previous album proper, Ceux du Dehors (although the Crawling Wind EP was released in the interim).[2]
This record marked an important stylistic shift for the band. The synthesizers which had been more moderately employed on Ceux du Dehors (and not at all in previous works) became much more prevalent on this release. In fact, the album opens with a synthesizer riff. Along with using more electric sounds,[3] Univers Zero began to take inspiration from Middle Eastern musical themes, especially on the album's opener, "Présage."[4]
The new sound was partially attributable to the addition of some new band members. cello work provided some new textures for the ensemble. became the first guitarist employed by the band since the departure of co-founder Roger Trigaux after Heresie. Delory, unlike Trigaux, would play electric guitar with UZ. On Uzed, he plays a notable and unexpected guitar solo at the end of "Célesta (For Chantal)." was the primary keyboardist for this album, and would form a combo within the band with fellow keyboardist Andy Kirk. Kirk would play on and write most of the material for the next UZ album, Heatwave.
The album was recorded and mixed by Didier de Roos at Daylight Studio, Brussels.
^Daniel Denis; Renato Moraes; Michael Bohn; Philippe Senynaeve. "The official homepage". Univers Zero. Archived from the original on 2011-11-05. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
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