AMG Review of Trance Europe Express

Patrick Kennedy
All Music Guide

Recorded live in clubs and on the radio during the band's first European tour, Trance Europe Express captures Zeni Geva with equal intensity in a context other than the studio. Released in 1995 on KK Null's own Nux imprint, this disc comprises tracks from all of the band's primary releases to that date. More a document of a particular tour than a groundbreaking -- or at least eardrum-shattering -- new recording, Trance Europe Express traces the arc of a tour sonically, highlighting the best tracks from certain shows, and includes a complete tour itinerary in the liner notes. Tracks one through six were recorded at VRPO Audio-1 Studio in Hilversum, Holland; tracks seven and eight were taken from the board at ~Democrazy in Gent, Belgium; and track nine was recorded live in Groningen, Holland, at ~Vera. Though not as punishing as the various studio albums, nor as avant, painful, or ambient as Null's solo work -- recall that he had been working with noise merchant Merzbow as far back as 1983 -- Trance Europe Express is an important document for Zeni Geva initiates and aficionados.