The artist’s defiant second studio album Regarding My Heart is due out September 27. With her most refined, self-assured sound to date, Regarding My Heart is a sweeping sonic exploration of love, loss and loneliness that allows Tuelo to cement her place in the folk-rock sphere.

Explaining the concept of the title, Tuelo says, “Being loved and cherished to someone, may it be family or friends, is for me what makes the world go around. In nature, I think love is this concept that explains the electricity that sparks progress, creativity and creation, be it bad or good. It’s a song from the perspective of the one who loves – comforting, shaking, and rescuing a person who is struggling to grasp life. It is also written by a person imagining how loved ones would live and cope with their chosen death.”

Though these topics may be heavy, Tuelo says the track aims to shine a light on the positive, healing aspects of these thoughts and the beauty of self-acceptance and honesty. Tuelo continues, “It feels like a dark topic, but it’s not. Many people have pondered self harm; many are in one way or another harming, self-sabotaging, and holding on by the thinnest threat. Very often when I find the peace of mind to write I know that I’ve jumped a hurdle. Simple truth is that ‘Bitter Weeping’ was a diary entry to myself and made with my typical heavy, solid, and consistent strum.”

The accompanying video is a tribute to New York City–the buzz, chaos and beauty. With the city as its backdrop, Tuelo says despite its busyness, it’s easy to still feel lonely, and encourages New Yorkers to find their peace. Tuelo adds, “It’s a New York song; it’s a New York video. I’m just happy to include the city as a backdrop to the video. We live in such an exciting city that has millions of people, but it can often be lonely. This video made me want to remind people to make peace with themselves. The world is a mess already and I need for everyone to hold on tight and more than anything, be at peace. You can only make peace with others when you make peace with yourself.”

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The title track, out today, encompasses a life in its entirety–the love, loss and lessons learned. It was the making of this song that ultimately served as the catalyst for the making of the album. Tuelo shares, “’Regarding My Heart’ is a life-long journey of a song: a release, a reflection, a pacing of the story of love and loss.” The artist’s South African roots influence all facets of her artistry, as Tuelo shares, “It allowed for us to build a specific sound that reflects my particular way of song that I always compose from: my wailing vocal style with cinematic sounds and Etherial guitars, all rooted in my chanting culture.”

On the track’s subject matter and its universal, relatable quality, Tuelo says, “The song shows that in a ubiquitous world there lives a person in solitude, with a fascination for adventure, fantasy, and big dreams of great love. That is me. That would be ‘Regarding My Heart.’ That might be you.”

Built around the track’s central theme of loneliness, its accompanying music video directed and edited by Kevin Wenzel brings viewers into an opulent dining room where Tuelo is grievously setting a table for guests. After inviting guests in, Tuelo finds herself all alone. The artist says about the eerie visual, “The video is simply setting a table with no one coming to the party. It is the ritual of breaking bread and preparing for guests with no one to be in community with or to share burdens. I like the video because the annunciation is just a little awkward and makes you watch differently – even to be slightly bothered by it. It is beautiful but haunting and slightly off. More than anything it is the empty room, the ghost of friends, the nothingness, the lonely person we see.”

Shot on iPhone to cultivate its personal, intimate atmosphere, Wenzel adds, “We took it as a creative challenge to limit ourselves with space and equipment to see what we could create that would help to tell the story of the song, but still give the song the space to live and breathe on its own. The slow motion singing gives it a strangeness and also a calmness that hopefully allows you to sit in the song and in the world of the video.”

Regarding My Heart:

1. Regarding My Heart (Chant)
2. Regarding My Heart
3. Some Kind of Love (Chant)
4. Some Kind of Love
5. Green Light (Chant)
6. Green Light
7. Enemy of Love (Chant)
8. Enemy of Love
9. Bitter Weeping (Chant)
10. Bitter Weeping
11. My Friend Saba (Chant)
12. My Friend Saba
13. Some Kind of Love (Piano)
14. Audio Journal

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