BORIS part 1.........mega-post, a collaborative effort bewteen Big Scott and Brian Parker!

Brian Parker REALLY needs a snappy screen name, BUT , number one, he is from the great Buckeye State, and number two, he seems genuinely interested in learning the blogging/SHARING game, which is of course ALL GOOD.......this is part one of our multi-part mega-post on BORIS, if you are somehow unaware, BORIS are one of the planet's best bands, have been for a while.....they are an experimental Japanese rock band, they have released some 19 or so studio albums, (plus live, EP's, singles, etc, ALL of which we intend to touch upon in this multi part blog post.......I probably SHOULD HAVE done a Boris post long ago, but never did, and with the help of Brian, it is finally here.......


So, here are the first batch of links Brian provides for us......

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/HfXRKkgx/file.html

Dronevil Disc 1

Another of their more rare releases. A two CD set that is meant to be played - like the Flaming Lips' ZAIREEKA - at the same time. While I've never listened to it that way, it's spacey riffing, drum shimmers, and wandering solos work just fine on their own. And pay attention: the last track on disc 2 is gonna show up in devastating form later...

(Tracks: Disc 1 - 1.Loose/2.Giddiness Throne/ 3.Interference Demon - Disc 2 1.(Japanese script) Red/ 2. Evil Wave Form/3.The Evilone Which Sobs)

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/WI5LJkQ1/file.html
Dronevil Disc 2



Flood

Here is where the band really started to indulge in it's psychedelic side. Song titles are simply "Flood" 1-4. Very spacey and atmospheric, in a wandering sort of way, with lyrical heaviness for texture. Boris doing ambient, if you will. Good one to fall asleep to.

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/8zQ5C39g/file.html


Mabuta De Ura

A soundtrack to an imaginary film. Spacey but firmly band-based, I kinda look at this like Boris's OBSCURED BY CLOUDS. Japan-only release.
(Tracks: 1.Theme/2.Middle of Stairs/3.A Bao a Qu/4.Slow Ripple of a Puddle/5.Your Name/6.White Warmth/7.Melting Guitar/8.Yesterday Morning/9.Amber Bazaar/10.Smoke Sequence/11.Space Behind Me Pt. 2/12.Picture Of a Wind/13.It Touches)

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/zgg2my7F/file.html

New Album

This marked a shift in Boris. Not only in record labels - leaving the mighty Southern Lord - but in their sound. This release is kind of a distilling of the next two albums. You've got shivery J-Pop snuggling up to video game music and feedback squall. This one takes some assimilating, but is worth it.
(Tracks: 1.Flare/2.Hope/3.Party Boy/4.Luna/5.Spoon/ 6.Pardon?/7.Jackson Head/8.Les Paul Custom '86/9.Tu La La/10.Looprider)

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/Uh6qhFod/file.html

Pink

Their first high profile release in the U.S. You have the haunting beauty of "Farewell" and "Just Abandoned Myself", the psych-rock shronk of "Woman On the Screen" and "Afterburner"...just a stellar album. Also released in a radically different version in Japan (wiki link HERE). Cultural note: "Farewell" was used heavily in Jim Jarmusch's existential assassin film "The Limits Of Control". That soundtrack will be in a later catch-all post.

(Tracks: 1.Farewell/2.Pink/3.Woman On the Screen/ 4.Nothing Special/5.Blackout/6.Electric/7.Pseudo-Bread/ 8.Afterburner/9.Six, Three Times/10.My Machine/11.Just Abandoned My-self)

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/6kzeeG1J/file.html

  Pink (US)
http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/YUxMUFEz/file.html

So here is a whole bunch of some of the greatest japanese rock of all time, (except of course Eternal Elysium), but here are some great albums from the wonderful Boris.....let me dig in and see what ELSE young Brian has uploaded for us, it WILL be phenominal......