Amaara - Heartspeak (2020)

Heartspeak is the new album from musician, actor and award winning filmmaker Kaelen Ohm’s intimate multimedia project AMAARA. A meditation on love, grief, freedom and self evaluation, the ethereal-pop collection was written as a culmination of a life-changing heartbreak and the end of a marriage. Filmed in an empty NYC setting, the “Awake” single/video is a commentary on how the jarring experience of realizing one’s own illusion of perfection can truly wake you up. New album track “Gone” both calls out the perpetrator of a distressing experience while sonically celebrating the transcendence from the dark spaces of grief. Ohm shares, “when time has passed and the heart starts to heal, anger as a phase of grief takes rise and there can be a lot to say.”

An organic collaboration with her longtime bandmate & engineer Brock Geiger from Reuben and the Dark, Heartspeak is the result of ten days of stream-of-consciousness songwriting, recording and producing in Geiger’s spare bedroom studio. Writing all of the songs herself, Ohm sat at the piano or with a guitar first thing each morning until a song was found and the two would collaborate on production and instrumental performance as they spent the rest of the day laying down tracks.