The Queens-based musician and artist Alexandra Drewchin returns this year with another LP installment from her amazing Eartheater project. IRISIRI will be her third full length, and it is due out June 8th via the Berlin label PAN. Drewchin plays in Guardian Alien alongside Greg Fox and Turner Williams, and she often collaborates and performs with the New York art duo FLUCT. In addition, Drewchin starred in Raul de Nieves and Colin Self‘s opera The Fool at the Kitchen in February of 2017, and that April, she appeared on two tracks from Show Me The Body‘s Corpus I mixtape–including on the track “In A Grave” alongside Denzel Curry and Moor Mother. The musician is also currently composing work for the contemporary chamber orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, set to debut on May 9th in St. Louis.
Back in November of 2015, Drewchin told FACT Magazine that, while she had been writing songs and lyrics since sophomore year in high school, it wasn’t until 2009 that she finally “discovered” herself as Eartheater. Since then, the project has undergone significant evolution, and in 2015 she released her first two Hausu Mountain long-players, RIP Chrysalis and Metalepsis. Discussing her work with FACT at that time, she explained:
“I’ve always been balancing on a fence that’s between utter chaos and noise, and hyper-composition and dynamics.”
Those aspects of her creative output are on full display on this first IRISIRI single, “C.L.I.T.” The acronym stands for “Curiosity Liberates Infinite Truth,” and the track features her soaring vocal range, off-kilter drumming, and a gestural production style that is just as likely to disrupt as it is to invite you in for a closer listen. Look for IRISIRI to also feature appearances from Odwalla1221, as well as Moor Mother.
While you’re at it don’t miss Eartheater’s amazing, grave haunting video for her recent non-album single “Claustra,” as well as the IRISIRI teaser video depicting Drewchin as a centaur.
