Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Eartheater, the alias of artist Alexandra Drewchin, is bringing her upcoming new album “Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message” to Europe this summer, with an exclusive show in Berlin on August 31st at Theater des Westens.
“Heavenly Body: If I’m the Bottle You’re The Message”, is as personal as it is universally expansive, as everyday diaristic as it is mythopoetic. Exploring the pregnant body as a vessel for something greater than itself, it offers an intimate look at what it means to carry another human, how that transforms your body and life. It’s a gorgeous, complex record, one of birth plans and playlists, peeing in cups at doctor visits, and pregnancy sex. While it’s the singular experience of one woman, it also reflects feelings other people have experienced in other ways, without having to be a parent, which adds to the collection’s power.
Sonically, Heavenly Body’s a mix of dance lullabies, exhilarating post-wave bangers, prismatic electronic anthems, and stadium-stretching art-pop. Drewchin’s in the zone here, and these songs, finely detailed and deep, feel effortless. She started making “Heavenly Body” a little over three months after her now 10-month-old daughter, Nova, was born. Spending just a few months on a major work is remarkable. “It is very much born from the throws and blisses of becoming a mother. Some music can wait to come out and it will make sense whenever it does. This music had to come out immediately.”
Eartheater practices her own strain of poetic alchemy. Shapeshifting between electronic experimentation and acoustic texture, Eartheater has long delved into themes of erosion and lithification, along with the infinite possibilities of metamorphosis.
