Ork! Update # 7

October 1991

OFFERING TOUR NEWS

15-10-91   Le Transbordeur, Lyon
18-10-91   Café Théâtre de la Porte d'ltalie, Toulon
19-10-91   Cedac de Cimiez, Nice
11-11-91   Théâtre Barbey, Bordeaux (Festival Sigma 27)
20-11-91   Centre Culture! de L'Aérospatiale, Toulouse
21-11-91   Salle Diff'Art, Parthenay (Deux Sevres)
22-11-91   MJC, Joué-les-Tours (Loire)
06-12-91   Espace Carpeaux, Courbevoie (A Suburb Of Paris)
07-12-91   Centre Culturel Les Arcades, Faches-Thumesnil (near Lille)
14-02-92   Espace Villiers, Draveil

CHRISTIAN VANDER TRIO CONCERTS

27-09-91   Dame Bleue, Ris-Orangis (near Paris)
04-10-91   Le Havre
08-10-91   Alligators, Paris
22-10-91   Vienne-Elysée, Paris
23-10-91   Vienne-Elysée, Paris
24-10-91   Vienne-Elysée, Paris
25-10-91   Vienne-Elysée, Paris
26-10-91   Vienne-Elysée, Paris

SOME NEWS ON UZMK MUSICIANS

DANIEL DENIS
Daniel Denis' new album has just been released it is called 'Sirus & The Ghosts' and is available on the Cuneiform label in America (and the Musea label in Europe). Daniel was very briefly the second drummer in Magma in 1971/1972 then he returned to ARKHAM with Jean-Luc Manderlier before he went on to found NECRONOMICON who later took the name UNlVERS ZERO.
This is his first solo project since the last UZ album 'Heatwave' and, for me the first track on 'Sirius' is a direct continuation of the themes expressed on that. The repetitive structures of the subsequent tracks also bring back memories of the 'Ceux du Dehors' album and some of the work by their colleagues ART ZOYD. It is not a truly solo album, Denis plays keyboards and drums on most tracks but he also has substantial assistance from his friends Dirk Descheemaeker on sax and clarinet and Michel Hatzigeorgiou on bass.

GAUTHIER - KHALIFA - SIVADIER - VANDER - STELLA
Patrick Gauthier is recording a new album for Seventh records in their studio (for release in 1992 or 93 perhaps?)
Guy Khalifa (Züress) also plans to record his own solo album.
Pierre-Michel Sivadier is about to record an album I believe, he was also playing some concerts with his own Jazz Trio, in Paris, earlier in the year.
Christian Vander (Zebëhn Strain dë Geustaah) is still hard at work in the studio recording the next album with the rest of the group, it will contain 'Cosmos' and 'A Fiïèh' and other songs played live in recent years but previously unreleased.
Stella Vander (Tauhd Zaïa) has finished her first solo album (CD and K7 only). The earliest possible release date is the l0th October 1991. Buy it! You'll love it.

FUSION
'Fusion' - by Lockwood / Top / Vander / Widemamn was released on CD OMS 015-2 in April 1991. The new sleeve design is silver / grey in colour with blue and yellow blobs superimposed on a (Ferrari?) tyre mark. This jazz-rock album recorded in August 1981 was one of Vander's first offshoots from the MAGMA/UNIWERÏA ZEKT scene. It contains some powerful music nonetheless, in particular the awesome 'GHK go to miles'. Didier Lockwood's soaring violin playing is quite magnificent throughout the album.