Boris North American Tour Interview // Ototoy (English Translation)

Boris, 25th Anniversary Tour Exclusive High Resolution Delivery Pattern of Tokyo Performance Posted a review interview with the North American Tour with ENDON

Interview by Rika Takagi via Ototoy
INTERVIEW: Boris × ENDON

This tour that took place in a form crossing North America for about 7 weeks. ENDON experienced for the first time a long tour abroad with Boris who has performed numerous long tours abroad. Of course there was no doubt that it was an exciting tour for ENDON, but Boris said that the tour where the Japanese band took over abroad was the first time, Boris also looked back on themselves again. We will deliver valuable dialogues packed full of episodes that can not be heard, such as the state of the tour as well as live circumstances overseas and long tours.

Even if it is 100 in Japan, in the United States it will not work unless it is issued about 150 items

── This time I am going to talk about the North American tour that took place over the seven weeks from October 2017. Boris has done these long tours many times, but ENDON is the first time, is not it? Was it difficult, again after a seven week tour?

Koki (ENDON / G): For the time being, I came back properly, I think that it was fun to look back. I feel I could not afford to think that it was hard to go.

Taichi (ENDON / Vo): I went out without thinking about spicyness before I went there and finished doing what I had to do in front of me everyday. But now it is hot as body blowing effect.

Atsuo (Boris / Vo, Dr): It's tough after the tour has ended. ENDON has a different foundation of activities, they do bands while doing work. So the tour will be affected to the point of life after coming back. It was the first time we started to go abroad. Because I only live a life by doing simple things like doing live while going over there.

─ ─ I see. In the case of Boris When was the situation that it was painful to go back to when?

Atsuo: It has been around for about 10 years since we are going on tour so it is before that. At first, I did not go with going feeling "intend to earn". When I started abroad, the journey to invest in them continued for a while and I did not know the know-how. But I think ENDON got a great luxury tour this time. It can not be done with the amount of the venue or amp of that scale from the beginning.

Taichi: That's why I came with Boris' PA because it is Sleep or NEUROSIS who also has a dave, but we also do it everyday at an exceptional price. I got accurate advice on how to give out sounds, and even in other scenes, I think that the environment was much better when compared to the bands of about us going to the popping.

Atsuo: In order to establish such a long tour / life, I think that it would normally be better to build a foundation in Europe and then order like America from there.

── Is that as a rule of thumb for Boris?

Atsuo: Yeah. It is delicious in Europe as well, depending on the way of booking it is not as hot as moving in the United States. This time ENDON was suddenly in the United States for seven weeks (laugh). The scenery of each city does not change so much, and the capacity is also in the car. If you are in Europe you can enjoy just looking at the buildings and scenery as they change rapidly.

─ ─ If you do a seven week long tour, the first time that America is hard is that it is hard.

Atsuo: I think it was actually hard. We have done these long tours to disband, because we are watching many people who have gone away. ENDON is good because it keeps coming back. There was no big accident and I came back.

─ ─ On this tour, how did you face these tours of Boris seen from ENDON, and how did Boris see ENDON who experienced these long tours for the first time on the contrary?

Taichi: Boris has a way of doing the tour, and there is no way to show the way of living over there and the contents. That's why I just played at the live house and went home (laugh). Even just controlling the bands themselves was a hard time, so we had no time to observe such things from here. On the contrary, I believe that our change was easy to understand from the Boris side.

Atsuo: We do not talk about members almost while on the move, and it is really really fresh. So, it was fun to be able to go around such a tour with the band from Japan for the first time this time. Personally I saw from the side that the Japanese went to America to do bands, so I thought that they were like this or objectively.

─ ─ From the view of Boris, did you know exactly that ENDON is changing between tours?

Atsuo: Even if I do 100 live performances in Japan, if I go to the U.S , I do not pass unless I put out about 150 points, and if the sound is not on the floor and stung directly on the body I can not enjoy the soil Among them, I feel that ENDON's live has changed more and more. What do you think of Wata? ENDON Look.

Wata (Boris / Vo, G): I'm in charge of laundry, I'm in charge of role sharing like cooking person (laugh). Although it may be rude, I guess it is like a training camp (laugh).

All this: (laugh)

Atsuo: But it's like running such food and laundry, it's a tour. They say that Wata cooks rice every morning and makes rice balls and so on. Because there is such a thing, it becomes completely different from spiritually. In that way I think that tour-life know-how will come up.

Wata: So at the beginning and the end of the tour, playing and so on are totally different. I will gradually make it while trial and error. I think that ENDON was also so.

- Was there a moment like ENDON himself also seemed to be grasping in the United States during the live show?

Koki: I can not grasp it as a whole band, but I personally had a pretty much different sense. I had a feeling that I would face my own with a stoic of doing live until now, but if you are watching over the band playing over there and watching the performance of the band, you are standing more neutral. Because there is music in life, it feels like you are playing in the same way you eat rice and drink tea, do not you think?

Taichi: There is no feeling that the performance is coming up.

Koki: Oh yeah, there are probably no perceptions that the performance and the stage is normal so I am doing my best for that. It's a live this weekend, so it's not like I'd let out stress over there. Thanks to that I really relaxed my feelings (laugh).

Atsuo: This time it was ENDON on the top, the second local American band, we were in the order of appearance when we finally got out, but the second band and so on did not have a sound check, It seems to start as soon as you arrange the equipment and just kick, snare, and check out the vocals. Even in that kind of environment, I will send out my sounds and tell them, and the basic physical strength of those kinds of bands is different. Band force? So naturally the raw sound will be decked and it will become a direct sound.

Taichi: It does not mean that there is no such attitude band in Japan. But we are particularly upset to serious. I also found beauty there. Many scenes that can not be done without rehearsing with style problems.

Atsuo: But that style is not born unless it is Japan. It is a music style with Japanese originality.

As the environment is constantly changing, what stabilizes is important

── After going on a tour, have you got anything else?

Koki: These tours are live for days, but when you turn it off, you will return to the original.

─ ─ Yes, is that so?

Atsuo: The next day off is very painful. It seems like "It's bad".

Taichi: It does not depend on muscle pain. The one who kept muscle pain everyday will become easier (haha).

─ ─ I thought that the one who turned off turned back. Were there any definitive changes somewhere as you continued the tour?

Taichi: In terms of what the customer is looking at, the setting and standing position changed in the middle. At the beginning I was not in the center as a frontman.

Atsuo: Basically, support bands set up before Boris' back line so it is quite difficult. In America, this kind of way is like normal manners.

Taichi: When I assembled a drum in front of the drum, there was no place I could stand before that. That's why I tried to make the drum a little diagonal from the middle, so I stood at the front. It is a rational man, motivation just goes down because you can not stand in the middle.

─ ─ It was only when I tried that kind of thing I knew it.

Taichi: If I was not in the middle, I became a staging where black and white is not clear. I noticed that it is important to be in the middle and that the rules "are to be watched with attention" are important.

Koki: But I realized that the tour came about half (laugh).

Atsuo: But it takes quite a while to notice such a simple thing. Only the uncomfortable feeling that continues like I always think is going on is what is wrong.

── It's amazingly funny. Did Boris do that too?

Atsuo: At the time of the four people who supported Mr. Kurihara before, the drum was also deviated from the center after all, so how to tell was different from now. I think that Boris also became symmetry and it became easier to understand the structure after returning to three people.

Wata: In our case, the standing position stands in front of the main cabinet if there is a drum and there is an amp, there is a basic structure that it is easy to monitor and it is not so obvious if you take a vocal there. Another thing is to open a gap between the mold and the mold, and to make a smoke there. Since the size of the stage is different at the location location, there are times when you do not overcome all of it, but there you are flexible.

─ ─ surely the size of the stage will change at all as long as this tour.

Koki: It was fascinating like San Diego. Wata's amp was placed outside the stage (laugh).

All this: (laugh)

Wata: Moreover, it seems to be even beyond the aisle next to the stage (laugh).

Koki: It 's a strange place from a customer like there's only one base amp (laugh).

Atsuo: When there is no horizontal width of the stage, the base is not directional, so two bases / amplifiers are lining up in the back and forth (laugh). The power and characteristics of the system are quite different depending on the venue, and the difference is heresy, America is.

Koki: I guess the last loss was the effecter flying (laugh).

Atsuo: Since Ross has a sub-woofer under the stage center, the direction of the row is terrible. Also ENDON did the whole table moving on the table move the whole effector (laugh).

Koki: I guess you keep something at your feet (laugh).

Atsuo: Koki was doing it while he repaired the position of the effecter many times (laugh).

Koki: I did not have experience experiencing the shield shaking with the first track (laugh).

─ ─ If the structure changes according to the box, how is your way of entering different as well?

Atsuo: It will become a story about what can be stabilized in such a tour, do not you think? Is it feeling or is it a body? The environment will always change.

Taichi: There was an interesting thing becoming worker as you repeatedly live. Looking at the scale of the stage width, it seems like this is today (laugh). Is not it interesting for the tour to do the same thing every day? There are also things done on the same set list everyday.

─ ─ You did not change the set list all the time?

Taichi: I do not almost change. Sometimes we are going to do a headline show at the time Boris is on the festival, but at that time I feel like doing it for about ten minutes.

─ ─ Do not Boris change the set list on these overseas long tours?

Atsuo: It 's about changing the content of the encore. Especially this time we are going around tour together so we tried to do together and we were sending ENDON members daily on their songs.

── How was your impression of Boris's stage?

Koki: I wish you all the best (laugh).

All this: (laugh)

Taichi: When a vocal screaming to Boris enters, it is said that the customer is so violent (laugh).

Atsuo: Have Taichi and Koki first come in. On the other day, you only get two people in the noise.

─ ─ Do not decide that part in particular?

Taichi: That's already the top down (laugh).

Koki: When I thought about finishing the live and returning to the hotel, I told you to remember the song by tomorrow (laugh). So when I got back home and got cord little by little in a memo pad it looked like 5 o'clock in the morning. It will be bad if the code is wrong (laugh). I do not usually have string instruments like myself, so my band is different from other bands and Boris (laugh).

── The pressure when Koki alone was told is different (laugh).

Taichi: It 's strange how to take Wata's tempo at Boris's stage. So when I try to rely on Atsuo's drum sounds it changes too. Then, as for where to listen, there was only listening to the whole thing (laugh).

Atsuo: Looking at Wata, you do not understand the rhythm (laugh).

Taichi: I told Mr. Takeshi that he did not look at Wata (laugh).

Atsuo: Actually playing together will make you see something like a secret in that band. With that kind of feeling, try loading on ENDON further (laugh). But I felt strongly that I wanted to show ENDON the sight from that stage. That feeling that is getting excited with swing. In order to have that feeling, I thought it would be nice to show them together.

── Such experience can not be done without this tour. As it is the last time, how did you look back on the tour again?

Taichi: When you look back on it, it's hard to act collectively. I think that there are various forms of talking with Atsuo and continuing the band, but I think when I see Boris as a skill to continue. It is also said that spinning music, making it work, more bluntly making money. Because I'm eating out the amazing place of Boris with music. I think there are various ways of thinking, but I wonder if the balance of whether we are going to aim for it and doing work while doing work in Japan, was able to judge by going around a long tour.

Atsuo: There is only a band "There is Naru or Soruka", and furthermore, there is only "Haru". That's why there was lots of things I could have experienced this time because ENDON got there. ENDON, we and I, I think that it is only a continuation of it from now on.

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Boris North American Tour Interview // Ototoy (English Translation)

Boris, 25th Anniversary Tour Exclusive High Resolution Delivery Pattern of Tokyo Performance Posted a review interview with the North American Tour with ENDON