Doe Paoro breaks a seven-year silence with “Teach Us of Endings”, released on 19 September as the first single from her new album Living Through Collapse. The music video, filmed at Tierra Valiente in Costa Rica, places the music inside the landscape where she has been living and working, grounding its themes of loss and renewal in the rainforest that has shaped her recent practice.

The lyrics, co-written with activist and writer Alnoor Ladha, meditate on grief, mortality, and continuity: ancestors, the beauty found in endings, and the insistence on compassion in the face of crisis. Paoro delivers them with clarity, each line elongated and sustained against a restrained instrumental bed.

Production by Argentine artist Lagartijeando (Mati Zundel) and Devin Gati follows the same principle of sparseness. Hand percussion and electronic textures stay at the margins, synthesisers drift in slow arcs, and silence is used as structure. The single is accompanied by a video directed by AnAkA at Tierra Valiente, described as “a prayer, a fire, and a future.” It transforms the song into visual ritual, placing Paoro’s work within a community space devoted to collective transition.

The single introduces an album shaped through years of movement between Los Angeles and Costa Rica, where Paoro immersed herself in ritual and healing music. Paoro has described Living Through Collapse as a raft through the most initiatory moments of her life, written after a period of silence when music became her way back. She frames the record as both prayer and provocation, created with a network of collaborators including bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado, guitarist John Parricelli, and percussionists Paul Clarvis and Fede Estevez.

Stream “Teach Us of Endings” and support Living Through Collapse HERE