WL//WH Video Of The Day IOANA IORGU
The Netherlands-based independent post-punk music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ioana Iorgu heralds the new year with an Official Music Video for “Marble Gaze”, an unexpected, intimate facet of her variegated songwriting that shares a softer, more vulnerable side of the upcoming album “Chamber of Hearts.”
The song delves into the struggle to let go of traumatic pain through a lens of self-destruction, falling and catharsis.
More introverted and restrained than the usual outward aggression, but easily as disturbing and emotive, in the shadowy “Marble Gaze,” Ioana uses a Takeharu guitar from the 1970’s to weave a poignant, sparkling six string intricacy with heavy abrasive strums, to calmly but obsessively introspect before bullishly charging forward under haunted, heartbroken, withdrawn yet lying in wait vocals, stuck between repressed rage and wanting to let go.
In the Official Music Video, directed by Ioana Iorgu (editor) and Veerle de Vos (cinematographer), Iona walks alone, dressed in all black, through a symbolic red desert. As per Iona’s signature style, you can feel the gut-wrenching agony through her tormented eyes and deep facial expressions. Skewed and strategic camera angles bring forth ideas of decapitation and warped perception. Episodes of black-and-white photography show her tirelessly sculpting sand into the shape of a heart before crushing it, amidst the recurrence of a stumbling fall, in sync with the tedious transformation of the soundtrack.
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