EPIC.
This is…truly, EPIC.
Not unlike Bryan Scary, appearing in Surprise Box #124 earlier in the work, Bill Majoros is an artist who is continually reaching for levels of exploration and pulling, pushing forward what the genre of ‘power pop’ can achieve.
The Foreign Films, Majoros’ band, have created a body of work over the past five years that some of the very, very best power pop you’ll ever hear. Rather than go and on, I’m going to encourage you to check out the links below go on your own journey and hope that they’ll bring you to the edge of the pool.
Right now, I want to push you into the pool with the gift of the lead off track from the upcoming album from The Foreign Films, due in early 2014. It’s called “Fall of the Summer Heart” and it’s not a pretty, simple 3 minute slab of pure power pop. It’s 12 minutes long.
Yes, TWELVE MINUTES – and each one is going to blow you away as the song expands and explores the songs’ subject matter. It’s like a….’one track album’.
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DOWNLOAD – “Fall of the Summer Heart” – HERE
NOTE FROM BILL MAJOROS:
I’d like to present the new The Foreign Films single ‘Fall Of The Summer Heart’.
It’s an eight part song cycle, clocking in just under 13 minutes. It’s the first single from my forthcoming The Record Collector LP. The album will be out in April 2014. The Record Collector will be my first LP since the double album Distant Star.
The idea sprung while on tour in England. At first it was more a dream sequence than a song, but over time the fragments of mumbled melody took the foggy images of birds, ghosts, pinball machines, a fortune-teller, mermaids, a maze, an abandoned amusement park into a sonic tapestry. The track took just under one year of recording, with help from producer Carl Jennings, and players Kori Pop, and Kirk Starkey. ‘Fall Of The Summer Heart’ is meant to connect the dots from the past to the present. Taking references from not only 60s pop giants, but also modern sound wizards.
LINKS:
Main Site: http://theforeignfilms.com/album/fall-of-the-summer-heart
Another FREE song: http://theforeignfilms.com/album/sweet-sorrow-you-were-my-summer-sun
2011 EP: http://theforeignfilms.com/album/the-foreign-films-ep
Wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/
The seriously amazing 2007 double-album debut: http://theforeignfilms.com/album/the-foreign-films-ep
REVIEWS OF PAST RELEASES:
http://auteurresearch.tumblr.
SOME RECENT REVIEWS:
From Pop Geek Heaven’s MIKE BARON (Bloody Red Baron):
In 2007 Bill Majoros released the 22 song 2 Disc Distant Star under the name The Foreign Films.This was a
thermonuclear explosion on the order of Pet Sounds and Sgt.Pepper traces of which can be heard throughout the shockingly original music. Distant Star is a emotional and musical tour-de-force that belongs in every collection.
It’s been a long dry stretch during which he played on and produced records for many friends but the wait is over.
Bill has released a twelve minute song-cycle “Fall of the Summer Heart”that will blow you away,
containing traces and undercurrents of every great pop stylist of the last forty years.
Another recent review from Toronto-
The Foreign Films’ “Fall Of The Summer Heart”
So, The Foreign Films (led by the supremely talented Hamilton-based Bill Majoros) have released a new ‘song cycle’ called “Fall Of The Summer Heart.”
It’s honestly the perfect parting wave to summer, forlorn, melancholic and celebratory in turn, layered pieces of tracks falling over each other, a delightfully cluttered 12-minute-and-43-second journey. So few artists can do this lush, grand-scope psychedelic pop as well as Majoros, so I find myself really looking forward to every one of his releases.
The climax of Part VI/Victoria (Miss India) is just unbelievable, but by no means will I endorse you skipping to it. Listen to the rest of it, and just get really excited for when it comes in
This was great!