WL//WH Video Of The Day: LAL TUNA “Television Forever” (Official Music Video)

Video Of The Day LAL TUNA

Lal Tuna is an Istanbul-native multi-disciplinary artist who relocated to Bordeaux, France, to become part of the burgeoning local art and rock music scene.

After last year’s first EP “Not Until The Innocence Lost Is Found”, via Nothing Is Mine Records, the Turkish singer-songwriter retuns with the Official Music Video, by Lal Tuna herself and renowned rocker and label head Hugo Carmouze of Opinion, for the new single “Television Forever.”

Lal Tuna delivers an introspective and visceral haunted folk sound that revolves excruciatingly towards darker, intimate landscapes, crushed by loud, droning exorcising lashes.

“Television Forever” is inspired by Japanese surf rock, gothic country (Americana), doom metal and mainstream pop and is an ode to her past traumas. It describes the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder experienced by a sexual assault “survivor” who can no longer get out of bed. The title refers to the TV in Lal’s hospital room, her only window to the outside world during her recovery.

photo: (c) Aleksa Haluszczak

Mellow ceremonial organ chords enfold sad, introspective, gleaming guitar melodies and stumbling drum beats under a tragic hovering sky of wistful dreamy vocals that gently and intimately drip fragile heartache into a slow-mo lonesome flow before, soaring into pain-filled cries as an abrasive disruption occurs, causing the instrumentation, along with a voice saying ‘help me’, to become weightier and distorted whilst in the distance laughter carries on, unaffected by the horrific event.

I was hospitalized on New Year’s Eve, due to a serious medical accident, and was unable to breathe for days. When I found out that I would (survive, for starters) be able to talk and sing again, I realized that singing/songwriting was what I always wanted to do, and if I died right there, I would die sadly for never having put out my songs. So when I left the hospital, I started recording my old and new songs, without aiming for a big project on the horizon. My idea was, and is, to put them out without a label holding me down, with no deadlines and promises. Maybe someday it will form an album, who knows. But for now, I’m just putting out songs, every once in a while.

The Official Music Video by Lal Tuna herself and Hugo Carmouze shows Lal Tuna singing “Television Forever” in a wild flower laden field while running and laughing in a pretty pale pink dress. At the traumatic 3 minute mark of the soundtrack, the frame becomes wobbly and, after she screams, her clothes and make-up change. She now embraces the black Gothic death style and what was once a beautiful, full of life, summer environ turns into frigid snow.

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