Zontal, Track#1 from the Album "Dense Time" (2006) by GKO published on 2019-10-05T20:45:39Z Zontal was written by GKO 1984 and first performed when Björk and GKO formed a duo alongside K.U.K.L. where the piece was performed in many concerts but Björk and GKO recorded it in a session which also included Patre, Stígðu mig and Síðasta ég. The engineer in these sessions, Mel Jefferson, thought the music sounded classical and called the duo “The Elgar Sisters”. The recordings have since come to be known as The Elgar Sessions. Compositionally, the piece is a sort of back-to-front blues with a diabolus. The work is horizontal in two ways: The text that Björk sang and is now read by Megas is a poem by Þór Eldon called Horizontal Position and the piece is written in a “horizontal” key. To complete, Eldon’s lyrics are supplemented by entries from GKO's research on weak-light versus ponderable structures - along with Platonic solids and magic numbers. Genre World Jazz, Anarco Jazz