[Cover photo credit to Thais Aquino]
Singer, songwriter, and sound healer Doe Paoro, also known as Sonia Kreitzer, is returning with her first full-length album in seven years, Living Through Collapse, out September 19, 2025. She has now shared the new single + video “The Language of Past Lives.”
“The Language of Past Lives” is a reflection on Kreitzer’s miscarriage, handled in a tender way.
Kreitzer explains:
This is a song directly speaking to my experience and to the mystery of both birth and dying. So often with miscarriage, and as was the case with mine, there is not a clear explanation for why it happens and so closure can’t always be found from answers, but from making peace with the greater mystery.
In the past I’ve written very personal songs on topics we tend to speak about more openly in our culture, like limerence and loss of love. For reasons I could speculate on, we don’t give much space to miscarriage, and it felt meaningful to find a voice for that experience.
The accompanying video showcases a live rendition of “The Language of Past Lives,” filmed on the Tapantí River in Costa Rica, with Kreitzer accompanied by guitarist Amor Reluciente.
The album artwork for Living Through Collapse was created by multi-media artist Elena Stonaker.
On the collaboration, Kreitzer says:
The artwork is a collage from a painting that Elena Stonaker made for the cover art for the full length record. I have been working with Tsto studio in Finland to build up a visual language by remixing her painting in different forms for the single artwork, a language that centers animism and the mystery.
In creating her new album Living Through Collapse, the Costa Rica-based singer/songwriter “dreamed up a body of work aimed at catalyzing collective healing .” It was an undertaking informed by her longtime experience in apprenticing with practitioners of shamanic plant medicine in the Peruvian jungle, as well as her work in leading sound baths and guided meditations.
Kreitzer says about the album:
This is a record about grief, repair and possibility. It’s about the karmic responsibility of being born, and a call to action to fight for the sacred life of what is not yet born. It’s a sobering look of the unsustainability of where we are as a human and more-than-human family with our intersecting injustices and inequalities, wars, ecocide, and empirical collapses, and it’s an ask that we don’t give up but join in the prayer and action of working towards collective liberation for all. This is a record that holds space for duality, paradox, contradiction and transcending all of it. I hope it will serve as a salve, guide and space holder for the times that are coming.
For this album, Kreitzer assembled an mix of Producers, including Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), Chris Sholar (Esperanza Spalding, Solange), Lagartijeando (an Argentinian artist merging Latin Folk and Electronic music), and Liam Fletcher (a UK-based musician whose credits include Swiss singer/songwriter Danit).
Co-produced by Devin Gati (who also helmed production on Doe Paoro’s 2022 EP Divine Surrendering), the album was partly recorded in Costa Rica with a lineup of local musicians.
