Crawling Wind is an album by Univers Zero

Univers Zéro

Univers Zero are an instrumental Belgian band known for playing dark music heavily influenced by 20th century chamber music. The group's name has had three variant spellings, the others being Univers Zéro and Univers-Zero....

. It was a 3-song EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 when originally released in 1983, but a 2001 reissue of the album included an extra studio track, "Influences", as well as two live tracks.

The track "Central Belgium in the Dark" is a live improvisation

Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...

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The live version of "Complainte" on the 2001 reissue is intriguing, unusually featuring Daniel Denis on harmonium, with Guy Segers providing percussion.

Track listing

• "Toujours Plus à l'Est" (Denis) – 5:34
• "Before the Heat" (Kirk) – 4:06
• "Central Belgium in the Dark" – 9:54
• "Influences" (Kirk) – 7:36
• "Triomphe des Mouches [Live]" (Denis) – 9:55
• "Complainte [Live]" (Denis) - 5:29

Personnel

Tracks 1-4:

• Daniel Denis: drums, percussion, voice, harmonium, violin, piano
• Dirk Descheemacker: clarinet, bass clarinet
• Andy Kirk: harmonium, organ, voice, piano, synth, viola, music box, pecussion, radio
• Guy Segers: bass, voice, violin, "invisible talk", "flies talk"
• Alan Ward: violin

Track 5:

• Daniel Denis: drums
• Dirk Descheemacker: clarinet, casto
• Christian Genet: bass
• André Mergenthaler: cello
• Jean-Luc Plouvier: keyboards

Track 6:

• Michel Berckmans: oboe, bassoon
• Daniel Denis: harmonium
• Patrick Hanappier: viola
• Guy Segers: percussion
• Roger Trigaux: guitar