Dense

Denis wrote it. Wikipedia times it at 12:26 and Bandcamp at 12:17, and the lengths across pressings run from about 12:23 to 12:27. No source says who plays what on this track. We found no statement from Denis about "Dense" itself; of the darkness he said in 2021 that the music he wrote is not primarily dark, and that there was a willingness to press the obscure and the mysterious to the extreme. A ProgArchives reviewer, via a search summary we could not open, calls it the track introducing the band's new sound with drums and rhythmic piano leading.

Setlist.fm credits it with 13 performances across 53 setlists, ahead of "Toujours plus a l'est" (10) and "Presage" (9), including February 12, 2012 at Star Pine's Cafe in Musashino, Japan. It runs 17:25 on Live at the Triton 2009, and a March 31, 1984 recording on the etree database includes it. We found no covers or samples. Our upload is assumed to be the 1981 studio recording.