In Photos: The making of EarthSonic’s Flow

Go behind the scenes of EarthSonic’s latest project, where a multinational sisterhood of artists gathered to shape an album that gives voice to women on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

In November 2025, Crack Magazine travelled to Belém, where EarthSonic convened a new cohort of women from across continents for COP30 – a first-of-its-kind musical intervention designed to meet global politics not with speeches, but with sound.

Among them were Noisettes frontwoman Shingai, traditional Bengali vocalist Sohini Alam, northern Brazilian artists Jaloo and Kelia, and Piracicaba’s Bebé Salvego.

Each carried stories of water – our most precious resource – rising, receding, pushed to breaking point as climate change increasingly impacts our health. Over five days, their voices wove through Belém’s grassroots venues and into the conference’s Blue Zone, cutting through the bureaucratic haze with something visceral and impossible to ignore. Where delegates had spent hours shuffling papers, the music demanded they feel.

Now, what began in the Amazon refuses to stay there. The project moves beyond those five days, unfolding into a wider release, titled Flow, beginning with British-Zimbabwean artist Shingai’s track Mhondoro for Earth Month.

Mhondoro arrives from a Zimbabwe in climate crisis. Erratic rainfall, prolonged drought, and the collapse of clean water access have created compounding emergencies – felt most acutely by women, in their bodies, their labour, and their roles as keepers of community health. Shingai wrote into that reality, drawing on the ancestral Mhondoro lion spirits as both protectors of the land and witnesses to its unravelling. 

Recorded at Bridgenorth in Zimbabwe with a tight ensemble of local players, Mhondoro is driven as much by feel as it is by form. Shingai threads traditional sungura-style fingerpicking through thick, distorted textures, while the propulsive mhande rhythm, marked by insistent clapping, gives the track a ceremonial pulse.

A submerged, dreamlike bridge shifts the song into something more elemental, before the chorus lands with its chant-like invocation of the Mhondoro lion spirits. Throughout, Shingai’s voice moves between playfulness and authority, turning the track from performance into something closer to ritual. 

The full project, Flow, is due to be released in November. Take a look through a gallery of photos from Brazil below, and listen to the first single, Mhondoro, out now via EarthSonic.