Musician Doe Paoro is approaching music as a healer. With her new album Living Through Collapse , she aims to create a healing experience—both personal and collective. Lyrically, the album explores big questions about ancestry and revolution as well as intimate ones about Paoro’s personal experience. Sonically, it is by turns soothing and energizing. In this interview, Paoro reflects on the ways she brings her experience designing sound baths and guided meditations to the recording and performance of music.

The idea that music has the capacity to heal seems intuitive, but few contemporary musicians make music explicitly as a healing art. What led you to that path?

Living Through Collapse is my fourth album, and it feels markedly different from my first three. Earlier in my career ,

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