wHOLeY

After the birth of her son Dylan in Brooklyn, NY, Sasha recorded her third album wHOLeY (2020) - with producers Philipp Schardt and Danton Supple (Coldplay, Star Sailor, Elbow). An empowering exploration of trauma, the album takes inspiration from her own healing journey and is a heroic reminder that we are all whole no matter what we’ve been through.

Sasha has said of writing the album, “I think we need songwriters to express all the things that we would usually keep hidden away in the dark - the things we’re too ashamed to discuss. Song has always been my safe space to do that. The songs are a kind of therapy.”

Thanks to her research into the medicinal power of music to clear personal, ancestral and collective trauma (enriched by the work of Thomas Hübl, Gabor Mate, Jill Purce, and the PolyVagal Theory of Stephen Porges) the songs are recorded at 432Hz, and use healing frequencies to assist with bringing the body and mind back into a state of homeostasis.

The album provides the listener with a roadmap to recovery from ‘harm to harmony’ - from perceived brokenness - to wholeness - to holiness (or the awareness of the divinity eternally present in all things).

Sound can deliver us to a place beyond thought and beyond logic, where spirit, soul and body are in resonance. It can restore wholeness. In a very basic way, the power of our breath and our heartbeat is the conscious link between between body, soul and spirit.

The album was premiered as a choreographed ‘ballet’ (by the late Yaara Dolev) at Sadler’s Wells.

“Her songs may sound like haunting, electronic-tinged folk with meaningful lyrics and melodies that stay with you - but there’s more to Sasha Siem’s ethereal, rhythmic, beautiful music than meets the ear. And that’s a scientific fact” - Clash

“A Dose of Heaven - gentle reaching towards a sublime sense of euphoria - Sasha continually twisting her creativity in fresh directions. Blissful” - Clash 

“A kind of catharsis that reminds us that we’re all in this together” - The Sun