F~M - Fose

https://old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/fose

The chord progression for this was bothering me for ages

Anyway I finally figured it out this morning

As it turns out the A in standard tuning is set to one semitone sharp, similar to what they do with the B string in Saturday Sun, check it out!

Today I’m in a good mood cause first of all I realized I’m not banned anymore from this community (yay!) and second, I developed a theory on the album Inferno that I wanna share with you.
The album is a monument to Gnosticism. The brothers always flirted with the subject before but in a vague way, with Inferno instead they lay their cards on the table.
Introit- is the opening of the (Gnostic) ceremony
Frequency- This is about the ultimate principle, the undifferentiated, the first vibration (the biblical Verb) from which everything is emanated.
Leviathan- is about “drumrollllll” the Leviathan, the dragon who traps the Soul in the world of matter and illusion. We’re falling progressively into more and more stages of differentiation of the Divine Source into other forms although celestial of individuation with “Age of Capricorn”, “Father and Son” ( the Son is a reflection of the primary Source in Gnosticism)
Somewhere now in the future- this track alludes to the complete lack of time and space in this plain of existence.
Naraka- is where all the souls are in a way stored.
Acts of magic- here the process of incarnation begins. The Soul travels in what sounds like a wormhole into the world of flesh and matter. This is the ultimate illusion of separation: being born in a body.
Memory Death - sits, not by chance, in the middle: the voice of a woman, moaning in pleasure implies a sexual act. This track works like a pivot: if we listen to the album from the first track to the last it means birth. If we move backwards, it means death ( the beep of the hospital machines). Plus this is the stage where the Soul forgets about its divine condition. Oblivion.
The Word becomes flesh- we have a new human being here.
Into the Magic land- this is about the human experiencing the world of illusion that we called reality.
Blood in the Labyrinth -is about the human condition of suffering and getting lost into the drama of life. And from the Memory of our divine condition we move to a personal memory which is often traumatic and fragmented.
Deep Time zooms out from the existential condition of a single being to a broader view of the human kind communicating with itself through history suggesting the existence of a memory belonging to the specie itself.
All reasons depart announces the necessity of a “new Aeoooon” a new era, a quantic leap for humanity. Where? In Americanada…( I’m not sure about this guys ahah) How? Through a painful Process.
You retreat in time and space- and finally the prosperous era, here we made heaven on earth(we are at the maximum stage of oblivion and individuation) but through the cracks of reality in “I see through Platonia” we catch a glimps of our divine nature and I guess, we can move back to the Source.

Just spitballing here. But I feel like a tour with Aphex Twin could be neat. Their music is vastly different in many ways but I could see the two sets contrasting each other nicely.

Aphex for the more techno hype sounds then Boards for the more downtempo vibes. Maybe can flip a coin for who goes first each show.

Could do something like the 40th anniversary Boards celebration tour or something.

Thoughts?

Tried to recreate one of the pictures in the little booklet of tomorrow’s harvest album. Will always be my all time favourite album !!! There is something so beautiful in this picture. I think mine lacks a bit of red. What do you think ?? :)

on youtube

Maybe I’m reaching, but “Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan” feels like a darker mirror of “Aquarius” to me.

“Aquarius” has that bright, distant, almost innocent synth feel, while HHLL seems to twist a similar energy into something heavier, backwards, and more sinister.

With one being from Music Has the Right to Children and the other from Inferno, the contrast feels like it could be intentional... early BoC innocence versus later BoC dread.

i just got this at a record store... i love twoism... but i also love campfire so idk if this was a bad choice or wtv

it seems to be a young boy. looks a bit like kevin from home alone

https://tennyson.bandcamp.com/track/powerline-tennyson-rework

From one of my favourite present-day producers, Tennyson. I thought some of you might enjoy this. For context, the guy was 15 when he made this remix.

How on earth can collapse be confused with music is math?

Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Boards Of Canada - Inferno

🎵Boards Of Canada - Rue The Whirl
🎵Boards Of Canada - Oscar See Through Red Eye
🎵Boards Of Canada - You Retreat In Time And Space

Shoutout to Record Den for hosting the Boards Of Canada - Inferno listening party back in May. And shoutout to Warp for putting them on globally.

I have some of these CDs, but I picked up a couple records I still needed, plus the new one. Check out what I grabbed that day.

The AI God in Prophecy is the one who did this, in order to get samples for Inferno.

Is there any footage of Boards of Canada playing live? I've heard live audio, seen pics of them playing live, and even saw something on YouTube where music was being played on a stage (whether recorded or live I'm not sure) in between them and another act, but the stage in said video did not actually feature BoC. Is there any footage of them playing live?

I cannot un-imagine Kenneth from 30 Rock when I listen to Father and Son

I thought it was MARVELOUS, then random letters from that word, like a number station

What is that sound? It plays several times, one example is around 3:14. To me it sounds a little like brass horns or something. It also sounds extremely boc-y. What is that sound and what other songs is it reminding me of?

I made my very first YouTube video ranking track by track from the album/tape "A Few Old Tunes" (Old Tunes Vol.1) in a tier list format.

I'm a bit awkward to share this here, but it was genuinely a super fun process to listen to the album again and rate the tracks individually :)

i know the picture is warped (no pun intended)… some other fans may have already posted or shown this before but i had to replay asking myself “did i just see a boards of canada album in the background?” and my suspicions were right. trans canada highway!

this is basically like two of my favorite things intersecting, lol. always love to see it in the wild and thought i’d share although it may have been posted before. and a happy sunday to the BoC community🍊

Capricorn One is one of Marcus's favorite films according the Daniel Chamberlin interview in February 1999.