Watch: Majical Cloudz “Childhood’s End”

04 Apr 2013 — Tonje Thilesen

There is so much that can be said about our dearest Canadian friends Majical Cloudz: from the very moment when Devon Welsh embraces the audience with his loving puissance, tears start to uncontrollably fall around me. Moreover, it's probably Devon as a songwriter that more accurately emphasizes the growth of their current success, as his lyrics evoke an emotional extension — a subconscious pain, that somehow feels very close and sacred to the individual listener. Myself included, of course. 

Montreal local Emily Kai Bock (who previously also directed Solar Year's "Brotherhood") decided to bring visual content to Majical Cloudz' most recent pop gem "Childhood's End", featuring Devon's father and Twin Peaks actor Kenneth Welsh as the main character. Below is a rather long, but loveingly written blog post in curtesy of Devon.

"Emily and I have known each other for a long time, going back to the days of Lab.Synthese, which was the venue she lived in and ran with Sebastian Cowan, Alex Cowan and others. I have been a fan of her video work for a long time so I was thrilled that she was interested in collaborating with myself and Matt. I have been present at two of her other video shoots (for Grimes’ “Oblivion” and Solar Year’s “Brotherhood”) so it was an unfortunate but ironic twist of fate that we were on tour during the filming of this video. As a result, some of the details of its production are a mystery to me, but it makes it all the more fascinating for me to watch. My sincere gratitude goes out to Emily, Bobby Shore and everyone else involved in the production. It’s a truly cinematic video and we are honoured to have our song as the soundtrack.

I’m also very grateful to have a video that features my father Kenneth Welsh, who is a very accomplished actor and who has spent decades acting for the stage, film & television. His career has been a long one but you may know him best from the television show Twin Peaks. His performance in the video is very moving and I’m mostly just really happy to be able to collaborate with him in some way (this is not the first time he has collaborated with Majical Cloudz, as he played the flute and trumpet on two early recordings back in 2010)."