One of the most beautiful song transitions I've ever heard. From Boards of Canada's unreleased compilation 'A Few Old Tunes'. 0:00 Boqurant 1:42 5.9.78
Boqurant represents all of the dead and burned plants in the aftermath of a forest fire. 5.9.78 represents the regrowth of new plants growing in the burned forest in secondary succession.
I always saw Boqurant as a funeral hymn of sorts, the sound of quiet mourning, very personal misery. 5.9.78 is catharsis, emotional release, possibly the light at the end of the tunnel. One is exhausted, yet the hope has returned. it sounds like a kind, encouraging smile from one you love.
in my last year of college we went to the italian mountains with school on a skitrip. I smuggled some weed along with me. every morning we were due at 8 am at the top of the mountain, ready in gear. Every morning at 6h30 i would roll a small joint, get to the ski lift at 7am en take the 15 min lift up to the mountain, smoking that small joint along the way. All the powder was just fresh up there. On the top of the mountain, a little weed buzz, 5-9-78 plugged into my ears, and the first descent snowboarding down when i was the only single soul in that snowpark. to this day one of the most beautiful moments ever. plain solitude
The transition between Boqurant 5.9.78 touches your soul, there's something about it that makes it extremely warm, it's like truly immersing yourself in the sound
Listening to BoC was probably one of my first spiritual experiences reminding me that there was something more, something hidden behind the curtain that I couldn't fully grasp back then. Their music felt like home, strange and familiar at the same time, awakening a childlike curiosity inside that lead me down the rabbit hole. It feels good to be there again. Thanks for the upload!
"Their music felt like home, strange and familiar at the same time." This is a great way of explaining it, for me it's nostalgic and otherworldly at the same time, powerful stuff.
I’ve been listening to BOC for over 2 years now and i honestly feel like their music is connected to me in a way. It sounds really weird but i feel like my life would’ve been different if i didn’t stumble upon their music That transition from Boqurant into 5.9.78 literally sounds like my childhood. It feels like i’m reliving memories i didn’t even knew i had. My favorite artists for sure.
5.9.78 blows my mind every time I Iisten to it. The lighter melody comprised of arpeggios (is that the right word?) is impossible for me to wrap my head around, I can never seem to predict what note will be next in the pattern, so it always seems new and foreign, but every note fits perfectly and is beautiful. To me 5.9.78 feels like a hopeful new adventure full of pleasant surprises, the road ahead unknown, but not threatening.
I feel like these songs know me somehow. It fits so well in an undescribable personal feeling about what your life feels like, about your experience as living being has been like. It says "i see it and i show back to you" idk man I'm high and this rocks. I've been listening since the pandemic
i rly rly love that girl's smile. she looks like my sister. the pic of the two girls (i can get it tatood on youtube has it) really always makes me smile, which is weird cos i have NO idea who these girls are, but now they're associated permanently to some of the music that has been with me thru the happiest times of my life, and helped me thru some of the hardest... so now i feel like the pic of these strangers has some weird personal resonance with me. i feel like that too when i listen to this stuff ! i hope she's doing well
Thanks for uploading this. The transition is one of the best moments in BoC's catalog, yet until now that moment wasn't actually on CZcams. The 300,000-view A Few Old Tunes [Full Album] video that somebody uploaded has breaks between each of the tracks, which just ruins the effect.
No problem, I uploaded it for the reasons you mentioned! The break between tracks completely ruins it, and I was very surprised that there wasn't an example of both together, so I just uploaded it myself :)
I close my eyes and visualise this : During Boqurant, I stand and look over my open coffin that has my dead body. The funeral attendees are dispersing slowly. Then during 5.9.78 , my soul drifts slowly towards a higher plane, all while experiencing all of the flashes of life experiences. Then I ascend to ultimate reality and merge with the divine at which point theres no me, theres no other. Everything is me, I am in everything and all is divine existence.
Everybody, let's discuss the possible meanings for the name "5.9.78". Here's my theory: It's the date of a day, that either both or one of the two brothers remember fondly, maybe because of something special and fortunate happening. One of the major motifs of their music is childhood memories, and the date being when they were 7-8 years old? It fits too well, I'd say.
In Eastern / Buddhist Astrology ,1978 is the Year Of The Horse (and indeed Year Of The Earth Horse, as each of the 12 animal signs have 5 elements they rotate on over a 60 years cycle) , perhaps that has significance here too...
Impossibly melodic drifting in randomness that then achieves metronome rhythm as it ascends to the stars and beyond, infinite permutations of right brained art expressed as only music can. Thank you for sharing this, my mind is blown.
To the various people here enamored with the transition, I have a feeling you would also enjoy the feeling going from Kiteracer 2 into Northern Plastics (also called Kiteracer 1). Keep in mind, for max effect, the first song needs to basically have faded out before the next makes its triumphant appearance. You can thank me later
I want to meet up with likeminded BoC friends to listen to BoC, chill in nature, have good conversations and enjoy life! Lets make it happen ❤ Im from The Netherlands but I can easily drive to nearby countries. Much love for you all!
No. I must have listened to it hundreds of times over the last 10 years, and it's still as it was the 2nd time I heard it (unfortunately the 1st time can never really be duplicated).
Boqurant is one of those songs that gets into my head every so often, and I can't for the life of me figure out where I heard it. Only when I put on AFOT is my curiosity finally satisfied, if just briefly.
**Boqurant** represents Super Mario being stuck in King Bowser's Castle. **5-9-78** represents Super Mario reuniting with Princess Peach on Rainbow Rd.
Im not someone who exaggerates the quality of something or keeps throwing around words like "best" or "goat" on anything so when i say that this might be one of the best songs i've ever heard period i really fuckin mean it
She is Louise Campbell, younger sister of Peter Ian Campbell, who is a friend / unofficial photographer of BOC, and a long standing member of Hexagon Sun. This is a still taken from a family film :-) - And yes, her smile is beautiful.
@@xoio She is quite graceful indeed and that's an interesting fact. BOC is one of my favorite bands. I introduced my grandma to Boards of Canada and she got me a BOC shirt for my birthday.
the transition sure does give some weird vibes, feels like it would go good with footage off the porch of some hunting cabin near the arctic ocean in the middle of desolate bumfuck nowhere nwt.
Taken from bocpages: According to KToiBalToi: "the girl on the cover of "a few old tunes" is Louise Campbell, the younger sister of (Peter) Iain Campbell who has worked with them on other art projects. I think it was taken as a still from an old family video." Never been confirmed afaik, but that's the current consensus.
Boqurant is like deep trouble, and 5-9-78 is the solution. The transition marks the epiphany.
Damn. That is fuckin golden.
Like a really uncomfortable trip that suddenly becomes amazing and comfortable
I always experienced it as doom, followed by the bloom of nature. Almost all BoC songs have such a polar emotion set
Well put!
Boqurant sounds like you're at yourself's funeral
Couldn't describe better
Idk why this comment was so hard to read. Like who?? What?? At whose funeral??
@@Bankable2790 you're at your own funeral.
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 yeah I got that thank you
This is the weirdest description to anything i've ever seen and yet it's so accurate
This song is so well done it makes me wonder if I deserve to listen this
Yeah, you do. But count yourself lucky.
You have the right to music...
@@notgonnaknowtillthen3192 the best possible comment in the whole internet
@@notgonnaknowtillthen3192 and music has a right to you
Boqurant represents all of the dead and burned plants in the aftermath of a forest fire.
5.9.78 represents the regrowth of new plants growing in the burned forest in secondary succession.
Yin yang. Geogaddi. Geo = earth Gad = god di = two. Two gods on earth. One good, one evil. Boqurant is evil. 5,9,78 is good.
@George Browning what
That's a really nice interpretation. Love it!
I always saw Boqurant as a funeral hymn of sorts, the sound of quiet mourning, very personal misery. 5.9.78 is catharsis, emotional release, possibly the light at the end of the tunnel. One is exhausted, yet the hope has returned. it sounds like a kind, encouraging smile from one you love.
That's exactly it. 💜
If this song doesn't play in my funeral, I'm staying alive.
Not the best Bee Gees song to play for a funeral...
God Imagine hearing this song for the first time at a funeral
What is it in BoC's music that brings out the best comments from ppl
man, what a hidden gem.
You still owe me milk.
@@treesurgeon2441 In the morning
@@treesurgeon2441 I'll give you some of mine 💋🗿
Wavywebsurf made it more popular
I wish that your husband would deliver my milk 🥛, in the morning 🌅, when I’m yawning 🥱
I've cried over a hundred times on that transition and lemme once more
It's just too fucking perfect right? It's overwhelmingly the only thing I ever need to hear
@@sugarbunnyplum not how english works
Haha shut up
@@alphalax7747shush
How lucky we all are to have listened to this.
in my last year of college we went to the italian mountains with school on a skitrip. I smuggled some weed along with me. every morning we were due at 8 am at the top of the mountain, ready in gear. Every morning at 6h30 i would roll a small joint, get to the ski lift at 7am en take the 15 min lift up to the mountain, smoking that small joint along the way. All the powder was just fresh up there. On the top of the mountain, a little weed buzz, 5-9-78 plugged into my ears, and the first descent snowboarding down when i was the only single soul in that snowpark. to this day one of the most beautiful moments ever. plain solitude
Love you
Never happened
You don’t need weed when listening to this music
bollocks
@@stevesebaoun6555 he didn’t say you did
The transition between Boqurant 5.9.78 touches your soul, there's something about it that makes it extremely warm, it's like truly immersing yourself in the sound
Listening to BoC was probably one of my first spiritual experiences reminding me that there was something more, something hidden behind the curtain that I couldn't fully grasp back then. Their music felt like home, strange and familiar at the same time, awakening a childlike curiosity inside that lead me down the rabbit hole. It feels good to be there again. Thanks for the upload!
"Their music felt like home, strange and familiar at the same time."
This is a great way of explaining it, for me it's nostalgic and otherworldly at the same time, powerful stuff.
What you describe reminds me a lot of the backrooms you should probably check that term out if you dont know it already
What was it that was hidden behind the curtain?
@@simonyricools another curtain ;-D
@@sohndervenus There you go!
the first hearing of that moment at 1:42 gave me goose bumps that had been never experienced before
Some songs remind you that there are greater things out there
agreed. this music fascinates me. how does it make us listeners feel this way?
There's nothing like having a bad day, then going on a walk while listening to this...
It's like a reassuring pat on the back, a hug made out of sound
The transition is transcendental
This is very serious
It absolutely is.
I have no doubts.
That tsansition is really astonishing
I’ve been listening to BOC for over 2 years now and i honestly feel like their music is connected to me in a way. It sounds really weird but i feel like my life would’ve been different if i didn’t stumble upon their music
That transition from Boqurant into 5.9.78 literally sounds like my childhood. It feels like i’m reliving memories i didn’t even knew i had.
My favorite artists for sure.
Sun soaked body flat, Fluttering reflected light, Summer at the lake.
5.9.78 blows my mind every time I Iisten to it. The lighter melody comprised of arpeggios (is that the right word?) is impossible for me to wrap my head around, I can never seem to predict what note will be next in the pattern, so it always seems new and foreign, but every note fits perfectly and is beautiful. To me 5.9.78 feels like a hopeful new adventure full of pleasant surprises, the road ahead unknown, but not threatening.
couldnt have said it better. it kinda makes me wanna think of the international space station, but also cry my eyes out lol.
It’s going to be okay guys. It really is
@@Bankable2790 is it? 😭🤗
@@_LocalGhost_ Yes 🙂
@@fatimafarhat7037 you just described Dayvan Cowboy for me.
5.9.78 makes me feel really nostalgic
This music transforms me into a timeless ecstacy. Every little thing becomes magical. Ambient is everywhere. Nostalgic euphoria of loneliness.
1:40, One of the most thoughtful transitions ever created in music. A secret given from BoC, only to fans who are the most beautiful people on earth.
♥️
2021 🇨🇱
2022 ♥️🤘🏽
2022 🫂🇻🇪
❤️
I feel like these songs know me somehow. It fits so well in an undescribable personal feeling about what your life feels like, about your experience as living being has been like. It says "i see it and i show back to you"
idk man I'm high and this rocks. I've been listening since the pandemic
my most treasured string of songs in my library...
These two songs together remind me everything is a circle
i rly rly love that girl's smile. she looks like my sister. the pic of the two girls (i can get it tatood on youtube has it) really always makes me smile, which is weird cos i have NO idea who these girls are, but now they're associated permanently to some of the music that has been with me thru the happiest times of my life, and helped me thru some of the hardest... so now i feel like the pic of these strangers has some weird personal resonance with me. i feel like that too when i listen to this stuff ! i hope she's doing well
Her name is Louise Campbell
@@mark7479 the fuck are you on about?
@Mark 747 what the fuck are you on about, you sound like a serial killer.
@@mark7479 holy schizola... you really find the weirdest comments underneath these types of songs
@@vap0rjake115 No that’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone comment anything like that on a BoC video. I mean wtf
The transition is the most soul touching mind opening tear dropping ever...
5.9.78 is like floating in a dream, a strange but relaxing feeling
It feels like I can almost forgive myself
God says you were always forgiven.. all that is left to do is forgive yourself
That hit me hard.
that transition is incredible.................
apocalypse followed by genesis
Ouroborous
Everytime I listen to this, I know the transition is coming. And yet my heart still races when it comes in , as if I never expected it
Oh my ... Those harmonic overtones that drift across after 3:58+ .......
listening to them with a tube amp is bliss, the harmonics really are present
Thanks for uploading this. The transition is one of the best moments in BoC's catalog, yet until now that moment wasn't actually on CZcams. The 300,000-view A Few Old Tunes [Full Album] video that somebody uploaded has breaks between each of the tracks, which just ruins the effect.
No problem, I uploaded it for the reasons you mentioned! The break between tracks completely ruins it, and I was very surprised that there wasn't an example of both together, so I just uploaded it myself :)
No me man it doesn't at all 😉
@@tomwilliams8591 i love you Tom.
Not since 2018 my friend czcams.com/video/FqWiki0a-uE/video.html
Though I don't think the quality is as good as it is in this video.
Boqurant makes me feel like I’m being healed with no conscious effort required
For a few minutes you can forget that you live on Earth! eternal.
The only time I am at peace
5.9.78 Reminds me of some kinda music that could be in Katamari, in a really trippy, kinda depressing looking level
Katamari Geogaddi
@@notunoriginal noice
Wavywebsurf brought me here. Finally! Been looking for this!!!
same
Boqurant must be a precursor to 'Farewell Fire', no?
I close my eyes and visualise this :
During Boqurant, I stand and look over my open coffin that has my dead body. The funeral attendees are dispersing slowly.
Then during 5.9.78 , my soul drifts slowly towards a higher plane, all while experiencing all of the flashes of life experiences. Then I ascend to ultimate reality and merge with the divine at which point theres no me, theres no other. Everything is me, I am in everything and all is divine existence.
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Everybody, let's discuss the possible meanings for the name "5.9.78".
Here's my theory: It's the date of a day, that either both or one of the two brothers remember fondly, maybe because of something special and fortunate happening. One of the major motifs of their music is childhood memories, and the date being when they were 7-8 years old? It fits too well, I'd say.
I thought it was the day they returned to Scotland after living in Canada when they were children.
@@splintercast8092 wow good to know as a fan
In Eastern / Buddhist Astrology ,1978 is the Year Of The Horse (and indeed Year Of The Earth Horse, as each of the 12 animal signs have 5 elements they rotate on over a 60 years cycle) , perhaps that has significance here too...
@@Spirit-Of-The-Age i dont think so
It's songs like these that make you stop and think
BoC never fails at giving you that reflection you didn't know you needed
More like stop and be.
5.9.78 is what made me a fan.. litterally yesterday
Enjoy the journey my friend!
WAVYWEBSURF!
SuperJunkieBall yessss! He’s such a cool dude and even cooler that he’s a BOC fan
Same here.
I want to hug this song
Impossibly melodic drifting in randomness that then achieves metronome rhythm as it ascends to the stars and beyond, infinite permutations of right brained art expressed as only music can. Thank you for sharing this, my mind is blown.
To the various people here enamored with the transition, I have a feeling you would also enjoy the feeling going from Kiteracer 2 into Northern Plastics (also called Kiteracer 1). Keep in mind, for max effect, the first song needs to basically have faded out before the next makes its triumphant appearance.
You can thank me later
it worked
I wonder what event happened in the Brother's lives on the Fifth of September 1978, to justify naming a track after it? ;-)
It mightve been when they moved to Canada for a while
This song reminds me of nature.
I think Boards IS nature
I want to meet up with likeminded BoC friends to listen to BoC, chill in nature, have good conversations and enjoy life!
Lets make it happen ❤ Im from The Netherlands but I can easily drive to nearby countries.
Much love for you all!
Have conversations in nature about BoC's music ;) Much love to you, too!
thank you for uploading this
unmatched beauty and emotion in these songs
If I listen to this too much, will it lose it's effect in being the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard?
No. I must have listened to it hundreds of times over the last 10 years, and it's still as it was the 2nd time I heard it (unfortunately the 1st time can never really be duplicated).
My birthday is 5.10.78 x
Love the BMSR profile pic, how fitting you'd be on a BoC video
first tune somewhat reminiscent of Terry Rileys - 'Across the lake of the ancient world'
a spiritual vision
Aural escapade
finally free from the black hole and my light is shining through becoming a star once more
Sometimes i think heaven exists
Sometimes i find a higher meaning
The best to ever do it.
1:40 that transition feels like heaven
crazy good
Bless ya !
Boqurant is one of those songs that gets into my head every so often, and I can't for the life of me figure out where I heard it. Only when I put on AFOT is my curiosity finally satisfied, if just briefly.
Boqurant shouldbe called a chance of light.. that simple up beat drift ///fuck so good.
why does Boqurant sound so familiar? i feel like i may have heard it somewhere else on youtube
A year later, but have you seen the videos from the channel "Wavywebsurf"? He uses Boqurant in his videos.
Damn. I'm so lonely.
We are all here together x
I’m right there with you. Got divorced a year ago and even one night stands don’t fill the void. Just temporary happiness
Damn, i love that kind of music, they are like comeback to past, to childhood, when i was infected by Genesis sound
"Game Over"
saw you in a comments section talking about this nice work
Hello nigga brotha what is this shit transition I don't get it.
Totally bro !
@@jumpiko4553 tosser
This is one of the songs.
I never really understood BoC, but this... holy shit I can get behind this
1:40 💕
oh my god
it won't leave my head, and it's been a long time since i watched the art final. weird
**Boqurant** represents Super Mario being stuck in King Bowser's Castle. **5-9-78** represents Super Mario reuniting with Princess Peach on Rainbow Rd.
Very Euphoric
I still can't believe they haven't officially released this masterpiece
a lot of masterpieces in their old tapes
@@rited agreed .
thx
Esta canción me hace dudar de mi y si realmente merezco escuchar esto, al escuchar algo tan bello, bien echo y cuidado, no lo sé, no lo merezco.
Boards of Canada es simplemente Mágico
ACCEPTED
Summer .......
Im not someone who exaggerates the quality of something or keeps throwing around words like "best" or "goat" on anything so when i say that this might be one of the best songs i've ever heard period i really fuckin mean it
Which one?
Barqurant sounds like an 8 bit horror games ambient
its 1am and this made me feel paranoid as hell
I can see Boqurant making you feel that way but 5.9.78 should've made you feel like everything is okay & that it is all in your head, it always was.
Get you an indica
@@dixienormous6969 cool comment
I find the choice of song name for 5 9 78 interesting as I can't find any important events that happened on any date that could be interpreted as.
I assume it's a date with a personal association for them.
would I do i know about your dad's date of birth? Or the first time you had sex?
Nice drawing
wavywebsurf🙌🏽
dude, I HOPE you're not actually the person you're impersonating
I always wonder who that woman is on the album cover. If anyone could answer my question let me know. Great song!
She is Louise Campbell, younger sister of Peter Ian Campbell, who is a friend / unofficial photographer of BOC, and a long standing member of Hexagon Sun. This is a still taken from a family film :-) - And yes, her smile is beautiful.
@@xoio She is quite graceful indeed and that's an interesting fact. BOC is one of my favorite bands. I introduced my grandma to Boards of Canada and she got me a BOC shirt for my birthday.
the transition sure does give some weird vibes, feels like it would go good with footage off the porch of some hunting cabin near the arctic ocean in the middle of desolate bumfuck nowhere nwt.
What album is this on?
Sur l’album "A few Old tunes "
I want think that BoC find his very definition by making this track. This is almost the Higgs boson to their late work
By commenting now I will make the total number of comments 216.
Album cover reminds me of The Caretaker
i wonder what happened on 5/9/78
I was conceived. Seriously
who are these people? where are we? why
Smile and keep playing along
We are all happy!
@@youssefbhaa2299
🥴
Who is the girl?
Probably a family member.
Taken from bocpages:
According to KToiBalToi: "the girl on the cover of "a few old tunes" is Louise Campbell, the younger sister of (Peter) Iain Campbell who has worked with them on other art projects. I think it was taken as a still from an old family video."
Never been confirmed afaik, but that's the current consensus.