The Hard Quest
by Univers Z茅ro
- Type: Album
- Released: 22 September 1999
- Label: Cuneiform
- Country: Belgium
- Length: 49:19
- Community rating: 3.68/5 from 3 ratings
Artists on this release: Igor Semenoff, Daniel Denis, Dirk Descheemaeker, Michel Berckmans, R茅ginald Trigaux
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Returning triumphantly from a massive, 13-year hiatus, the Belgian avant-prog legends deliver a suspenseful, meticulously composed instrumental masterclass. The complex, highly demanding interplay of bassoons, oboes, and traditional rock instrumentation revives their signature ominous, gothic-tinged chamber-rock sound with flawless execution.
Genres
Descriptors: Avant Garde, progressive, avant-garde, instrumental, chamber, dissonant, theatrical
Tracklist
- Vieux-Manants (2:50)
- Civic Circus (4:38)
- Affinit茅 = Affinity (5:52)
- Rouages = Cogwheels (5:50)
- News From Outside (3:24)
- R茅bus (To All Children) = Rebus (2:46)
- Kermesse Atomique = Atomic Kermess (5:33)
- Succ猫s Damn茅 (4:18)
- L'Impasse Du Chol茅ra = Cholera's Deadlock (1:48)
- Xenantaya (10:34)
- L'Oubli = Oblivion (1:46)
Credits
- Univers Zero - primary artist
- Michel Berckmans - bassoon, oboe, english horn, melodica, composed by, piano, composer, cor anglais
- Dirk Descheemaeker - clarinet, bass clarinet
- Daniel Denis - composed by, drums, keyboards [all keyboards], percussion, melodica, lyrics by, voice, composer, copyright, membranophone, keyboard
- G茅rard Thomas - cover [cover painting], painting [cover painting]
- R茅ginald Trigaux - electric bass, voice, acoustic guitar, electric bass guitar
- Igor Semenoff - violin