amaara - heartspeak / black moon [ep’s] - [self-released]

‘HEARTSPEAK’ WAS WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND RECORDED IN TEN DAYS IN AUGUST, 2019 WITH LONG-TIME BANDMATE AND COLLABORATOR BROCK GEIGER. A SONG WAS WRITTEN EACH MORNING, WITH OHM SITTING DOWN TO THE PIANO OR GUITAR. THE TWO WOULD THEN TRACK THE SONG, CO-PRODUCING AND CO-PERFORMING WITH GEIGER AS THE SOLE ENGINEER. THE ALBUM WAS MIXED AT SOUND CITY STUDIOS IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. THE RESULT WAS A SIX SONG ALBUM OF DEEPLY PERSONAL SONGS. ‘HEARTSPEAK’ IS A RECORD THAT SPEAKS TO THE DEEPER LAYERS OF LOVE AND GRIEF, OF LETTING GO OF THE PAST AND OF TRANSCENDING THE DEPTHS OF HEARTACHE.

‘BLACK MOON’ IS AMAARA’S DEBUT RELEASE WRITTEN OVER THE COURSE OF THREE YEARS ON BREAKS FROM BEING ON TOUR WITH OTHER BANDS. THE TITLE TRACK SINGLE MARKS THE INCEPTION OF AMAARA AS KAELEN OHM’S MULTI-MEDIA SOLO PROJECT AND THE BIRTH OF THE PROJECT’S ETHEREAL DREAM POP SOUND.

ELSEWHERE, AMAARA COVERS ONE OF HER BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES, THOM YORKE, WITH ‘HOUSE OF CARDS’ OFF THE 2006 RADIOHEAD ALBUM IN RAINBOWS CO-PRODUCED BY BROCK GEIGER, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY WILL MACLELLAN AND PERFORMED BY OHM, GEIGER, MACLELLAN AND CELLIST CLEA ANÏAS.

‘ALSATIAN DARN’ IS THE FIRST SINGLE TO BE RELEASED FROM THE FORTHCOMING LP ‘CHILD OF VENUS’. A REIMAGINED VERSION OF PANDA BEAR’S ORIGINAL FROM THE 2011 ACCLAIMED ALBUM TOMBOY, THE SONG WAS RECORDED IN ONE DAY AT THE BATHHOUSE IN BATH, ONTARIO WHILE MIXING THE RECORD. THE COVER WAS NOT INITIALLY INTENDED TO BE PUT ON THE ALBUM, BUT FOUND A PLACE AFTER FITTING SEAMLESSLY INTO THE TRACK LIST.

“Tomboy came out pretty soon after I started playing in bands in 2010, and it was one of those records that felt like the holy grail of indie music at the time. Alsatian Darn has always been my favorite song on the album and I’ve wanted to cover it for years - though I thought I would always try to make a version as close to Noah’s as possible. Ten years later, the song came to mind while mixing my record ‘Child of Venus’. We had an extra day in the studio, so I learned it on the piano and it started taking shape into a very different feeling track - one that ended up fitting seamlessly onto the album, which wasn’t the initial plan.”