Eartheater, the alias of experimental composer, singer and producer Alexandra Drewchin, recently released her album Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message. Written shortly after the birth of her daughter Nova and produced with David Sitek, the record explores pregnancy, motherhood and transformation through a mix of intimate details and larger, mythological ideas. “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,” Drewchin explained.
Our favourite song on the record is “Wasp In the Fig,” a gorgeous track that now has a suitably surreal video. Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, the visual follows Eartheater across the earth and through the sky on horseback. Eventually, rider and animal merge and she becomes a centaur. The opening and closing scenes were filmed above Drewchin’s country property in Pennsylvania, which gives the cosmic imagery a connection to the landscape around her home.
For Huang, the idea began with the song’s title and the unusual reproductive life cycle it evokes. “When I first heard ‘Wasp in the Fig’ I was so moved by the urgency of the song and was inspired by the title alluding to the mother wasp’s journey to die inside a fig to give birth to new life. The song’s running beat made me think of hooves, so for this video I envisioned Eartheater as a centauress galloping toward a distant star beckoning her home.”
We already knew Eartheater was a polymath, but apparently dressage is another talent to add to her palette. In fact, the concept developed further when Drewchin brought those skills into the project. Huang describes the final image as a “mythical sci-fi centaur mother goddess,” and we’d expect nothing less from her.
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