“Big Boy Games” is about massive ego wars. 

A dark twist that reimagines epic tales of vengeance and betrayal in retrowave galore!
The music video that I directed, illustrated and edited is out now on YouTube and all streaming platforms.

“Big Boy Games” will hype you up before any challenge you viciously mean to obliterate. It’s why I built it for myself. I need the beast in me caged but ready.

A gallery of  ‘’mano a mano’’ rivalries  intertwining with ominus hypnotic tones, haunting standoffs and grand finalies!

A comprehensive collection of  my familiar scenes of body to body foul play is scheduled for a two-day gallery display in November 2021 at the Mount Stephen (Montreal) Hotel. In the same room, the music video was shot in!

Single

Big Boy Games

Tiger Girl is a testament to resilient women and the empowering effects they have on not just other women, but people altogether.

Think of a cross between Bowie’s ‘China Girl’ and Springsteen’s ‘Secret Garden’ with a callback to the ‘’voyeur’’ vibes of the Police’s ‘‘Every Breath You Take’‘ .

The story is as much about growth through a deeper connection with someone as it is about the hardness of growing apart and finally letting go.

It depicts a headstrong, feisty lead ‘’she’ll fight you while she’s being killed’’ that leaves her mark on all those who cross her path ‘’I’m not the last to tell…tell of her tale’’.

It’s also about a deeper understanding of closeness.
An introspective look at what it is to really know somebody, from the smell of their skin to the way their brain works.

This is about sensitivity and the power to own yourself .

It wouldn’t have been as complete or as authentic as it is right now without my ex’s permission to sample her real personal vocal messages that we exchanged at the time.
She has also been a major influence in the creation of this character.

I wanted to honor the fact that I got to live ‘’real thing’’.I feel that I’m in good company with such triumphant memories.

In truth, most people live and die without getting a whiff of what I am talking about.
Some don’t even know it exists.’’ 
I honestly could have kept going on writing and rewriting it since its conception in 2017,
but as 2022 ended without me delivering my yearly single and with the last days of the actual year of the Tiger approaching (ends 21st of Jan 2023), I felt it was time to let her go.

Tiger Girl

Soleil is the harshest song on our ''Sinners on St-Laurent'' album,it is highlighted by it' s trumpet hook by our owne Isaac Gesse on Horns.

The Rising Few - Soleil

CBC Radio-One's ''Let's Go'' interview with Duke Eatmon and Leah Hendry on 88.5FM

4th track on our album ''Sinners on St-Laurent'',one can't just ignore Montreal nightlife and summer fun! from a picnic to a BBQ to bar-hopping…so much to do in one day..so many girls to meat..feels like one's vacation is right outside of their doorstep…Thank you MTL!

The Rising Few - Date In Montreal

Dropping all that Big Boy talk can be a dangerous game.
This is rock music expressing it's point of view on that kind of delusional behavior.
''Big Boy Games'' is  a high-energy, bouncy rant song that takes The Few into a complete left turn from their folky, acoustic beginning to make their sound a more raunchy, stadium worthy rock spectacle.

Words and lyrics by Karim Terouz
Music by Karim Terouz, Andrew Sudlow, Hubert Tremblay, Harvey Bienaimee'.

Performed by The Rising Few 
Produced by Glen Robinson

The Rising Few - Big Boy Games

Outstanding (Radio Edit)

08/09/2019

Outstanding

Buy/Stream ''Outstanding'':
http://hyperurl.co/kbxkxl

An AmtoFm presentation.
Filmed and Edited by Morgan Brandstaedt.
Live Recording at Kensington Sound, Toronto 2019 by Ben Pelchat.
Sponsored By Niagra Falls Distillers and Blood Brothers Brewing

Burn (Live And Acoustic At Kensington Sound Studio, Toronto 2019)

Music, Lyrics and Illustration by Terouz.

Buy/Stream:
https://smarturl.it/p07vrc

Produced. by Gabriel Ethier and Karim Terouz
Mixed and Mastered by Gabriel Ethier.

links:
facebook:https://www.facebook.com/kterouz/
insta:https://www.instagram.com/k_terouz/
twitter:https://twitter.com/kterouz
Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Wkvn...
Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/terouzmusic

08/19/2020

Burn

Terouz found his sound by curating his original songs with his taste for 90s nostalgia and 70s &
80s electro-pop/rock elements, while creatively utilizing his resonant and nuanced
“Bowie-esque” waver for both lead and backing vocal savors.
''Hypno-noir ‘’ he calls it, a cinematic, muscular sound imbued with wickedly erotic sensations,
rife with intensity yet soothing with its pacing.
His first single "Outstanding" (2019) has been deemed one of the year's best songs by
California's Rawckus magazine.
"Outstanding" is better than excellent, entering the rarified realm of superlatives. This is
one of the best tracks of the year, sexy, powerful, and inspiring." -Rawckus magazine.
in 2020, his second single, "Burn," received the Factor Artist Development grant making him
one of the 33%Canadians nationwide to receive the Factor Artist Development grant during the
first year of the pandemic.
Terouz released his third single in 2021, "Big Boy Games." This would be the first time the
Egyptian Canadian concept artist fully integrates his original visuals with his music as he
directed, edited and illustrated its accompanying music video.
Big Boy Games was added to Exclaim's The Eh! List on the Friday of its release.
''Trust me, you’ll love every second of this electro roller coaster.'' -Turn Up The Volume
Along with his co-producer, mix engineer and keyboardist Gabriel Ethier (Garou, Azam Ali,Niaz)
Terouz' manages to carefully craft his songs into intimate capsules, where one is intoxicatingly
swayed into contending as the lead in his cinematic stories of inner and outer struggles.
Tiger Girl comes out January 2023 ushering in his debut EP later in October 2023

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