ControlS!
2024 VisualizerThe visualizer for "ControlS!" serves as a powerful culmination of Turunesh's Trilogy Album saga. Merging the sacred art of Shibari with themes of ego death and memory, the visual narrative delves into the delicate tension between intimacy and self-erasure. Inspired by the poetic tragedy of Shakespeare's Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Turunesh’s portrayal explores the pain of being erased from a loved one’s digital world. The 3D digital techniques seamlessly blend footage with a futuristic interface, reflecting how our lives are increasingly entangled in virtual spaces.
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Tamagotchi
2024 Music VideoTurunesh explores the digitization of love and its impact on our authentic selves. Using the 90s virtual pet as a metaphor, she highlights the tragic effects of screen-based connections and the cycle of obsessive, unrequited love. The visuals capture both the playful and destructive nature of technology, while the Tamagotchi's implosion and regeneration symbolize the repetitive heartbreak of modern relationships. Turunesh delivers a powerful message on the erosion of genuine connection in a world dominated by digital interactions.
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Coco Marijuana
2022 Music VideoCoco Marijuana is a piece of renaissance art that embodies my ideals of afro futurism, ancient reverence, and spiritual syncretism in the context of a holistic and constantly evolving ideology, Neshåism. Coco Marijuana isn’t about weed. This film is an epic celebration of the ritual, the high, and the pleasures of music. It’s about the intimacy that sound brings within oneself, a moment of self reflecting nakedness. That’s why it’s so sexy. With this, I present to you, the Goddess & Priestess of love and music, Neshå.
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Satin Cassette
2021 Sophmore Studio AlbumThis album is a collection of teachings, experiences, and poetry about the musicality of sex and the sensuality of music in the most literal and metaphorical sense. It is my expression of what that synonomity means to me. The language of this album is fluid - the subject matter floats to and from my passion for making art and for making love, indeed, they are one in the same.
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Rum & Butter
2021 Music VideoRum & Butter is about the transformation from corporeal bodies to spiritual spectrums colour. It is a moment of divine metamorphosis. Coco, brown, butter, and rum are the colours and textures I use to describe the act of love between two black entities at the eternal hour of midnight, in the heat of the summer season.
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Cigarette Live
2021 Live PerformanceYou showered me with love when I released 'Cigarette', for that I am immensely grateful. I needed to give you something in return, so I sang my heart out for you. I promise, Cigarette is only the beginning of the world I have prepared for us.Thank you for being so patient with me. I'm finally here. I love you, Turunesh
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Cigarette
2021 Music Video
I wrote this song the summer I fell in love in for the first time. At first I didn't think it had anything to do with me, it felt like a freestyle. The more I listen to 'Cigarette' the more it reveals itself to me as a vivid memory. It's about the thrill of a first encounter, how it feels to give in and to pull away in a single instance, and what it means to be overcome by desire yet overwhelmed with shyness. We can all find ourselves in the world this song creates, somewhere on the dance floor.
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I wrote this song the summer I fell in love in for the first time. At first I didn't think it had anything to do with me, it felt like a freestyle. The more I listen to 'Cigarette' the more it reveals itself to me as a vivid memory. It's about the thrill of a first encounter, how it feels to give in and to pull away in a single instance, and what it means to be overcome by desire yet overwhelmed with shyness. We can all find ourselves in the world this song creates, somewhere on the dance floor.
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