A favorite song of mine for several years, now, it has taken all this time for my instrumental abilities (drums, in particular) to be up-to-snuff.

My initial intent was to record the original Icelandic version of this song, „Tedrukkinn", as it appears on the 1981 EP „Iður til Fóta", however with no way of ascertaining a credible transcription of the Icelandic lyrics, I was relegated to the secondary English version, "Are You Still There?", released on "As Above...", the foreign-audience edition of „Mjötvíður Mær".
Owning a rare vinyl copy which includes the inner sleeve, I was able to verify these lyrics...

Your life did leave you behind
So long ago that you don't care, anymore
This silly show that you
Have given in exchange for your mind and soul
Is so boring that sleep seems the only way out of itself
You've even stopped thinking about it

I wonder
if there is still
a little of you
left inside

Gotcha Covered

Are You Still There?/Tedrukkinn (Þeyr) [Cover]

Zontal was written in 1985 when Björk and GKO formed a duo alongside K.U.K.L. 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 seesions, 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 Eldon’s text are added some words from a paper by GKO on sub-nuclear structures, Platonic solids and magic numbers.

Zontal, Track#1 from the Album "Dense Time" (2006)

Jungledub

Ambient 808Beat

Mjötviður til Fóta was a CD album released in 2001 by GKO and HOH, to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the proper version of the band ÞEYR (1981-1983), and is a compilation from the albums "Mjötviður Mær" and "Iður til Fóta", both released in 1981. The tracks for this album were selected with universality in mind, so the more "local" tracks that addressed Icelandic audience were not included. This album was printed in 1500 units, and sold out in 2010 and has not been reissued - while we will possibly do a vinyl version in 2021 to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the said proper band ÞEYR.

11 Rúdolf

03 Tedrukkinn

02 Bás 12

Slow Skool

Heavn808

12AM

Dark Matter, formerly nicknamed "mass", was composed by GKO in 1985 for the ELGAR/KUKL project. The present version was recorded in Studio Hljóðriti and Studio Grettisgat in 1987 by Mel Jefferson. Accompanying GKO in this production are Birgir Mogensen, Einar Melax, Bogomil and Björk. This is the first official publication, while a live version was recorded by the Icelandic Television in 1986, but was declared classified and destroyed by the staff of RÚV.

DARK MATTER 01.12.2020

Here is where my covers can be found, along with the best music from my most talented compatriots.
Original music is on my Bandcamp page. Also on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Apple Music, and many more services worldwide.

Are You Still There?/Tedrukkinn (Þeyr) [Cover]

EEL Norris