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Flood

The 70-minute piece, here as a live performance.
Boris, from Flood (2000)

Our upload is titled Boris performing Flood, a live performance of the piece, and we could not read its page, so we cannot say which performance it is. Candidates are a 2013 Residency Tour night, the filmed show at Shelter in Tokyo on December 27, 1999 (before the album), the Shindaita Fever anniversary show, or the live release Boris performing 'flood' (2013). Setlist.fm counts 53 setlists with Flood, plus a few entries for individual parts; its most played songs are Pink (275) and Farewell (266). Flood was performed in full at Leave Them All Behind in 2012, and outside Japan only on the 2013 US tour at the time, Atsuo said. Atsuo noted that such long pieces are hard to fit into regular sets.

The Quietus's Joseph Neighbor reported from Le Poisson Rouge in New York that no home stereo system can capture the rich, bottom-heavy sound of Boris live. A Seattle review of May 19, 2013 had Flood close the set, a deluge of sound peppered with stunning guitar solos, ending with gong vibrations; in Los Angeles on May 24, 2013 it was played in its entirety at the Echoplex with Deafheaven and Ides of Gemini. A compressed 22:22 version from Koenji 20000V on May 3, 2001 is on Boris Archive (2005). The Roadburn 2026 set was announced for April 19. We found no covers or samples.

On stage

  • 2013-05-24, Echoplex, Los Angeles Played in its entirety, with Deafheaven and Ides of Gemini.
  • 2018-09-22, Shindaita Fever, Tokyo The Flood 25th Anniversary Show.

Sources

  1. Flood (Boris album), Wikipedia
  2. The AU interview: Atsuo of Boris, The AU Review
  3. Boris Archive, Wikipedia
  4. Boris song statistics, setlist.fm