Lucia Cadotsch – voice, synths // Lucy Liebe – guitar, synth, voice // Eva Swiderski – synth, voice
A shimmering sonic hybrid > Does it make you love your life? is an electro-acoustic studio opus featuring a 13-piece string ensemble, key players from Berlin’s flourishing music scene, and Lucia Cadotsch’s unmistakable voice at its core. Mastered by none other than Kurt Rosenwinkel, the album merges intricate textures with raw emotional clarity. There’s something dreamlike here > distant rivulets turning to rivers, backwards-filtered harmonics, blurred textures that recall fairytales - then suddenly, a beat drops > crisp, dry, forward in the mix like a Madlib cut. Lucia Cadotsch sings with crystalline conviction: “I am not the one to fight your war.” And in that moment, the essence of this project emerges > boundless musicality, a singular aesthetic, and a vocalist who moves effortlessly between the theatrical and the confessional. These songs paint cinematic worlds. Pads and arpeggios unfurl like sonic carpets across which Cadotsch strides - clad in a black oversized blazer, dancing angularly like a worn-out David Byrne in Stop Making Sense, calling statements into the rafters, or gently asking > Does it make you love your life? (It does.) This is a record that embraces contradictions > it’s euphoric and melancholic, loose yet exacting. Polyrhythms and synth solos pulse with a spirit that defies genre, evoking freedom over form. And yes, you can dance to it - check out the visuals co-created alongside post-post-modern dance icon Meg Stuart. Here, human energy - with all its detours, obsessions, and 4 am revelations - has been distilled into music that feels both vast and deeply personal. Music born from a lifelong dialogue with jazz, yet fully aware that genres, like identities, are fluid. On stage, this electro-acoustic cosmos takes new form. Lucia Cadotsch is joined by two extraordinary multi-instrumentalists and vocalists > Lucy Liebe and Eva Swiderski. With lush three-part harmonies, synths, and acoustic color, the trio crafts a sound both intimate and monumental. Poetic. Hypnotic. Unforgettable.
So mutig, so vielschichtig, so offen klingt dieses Album - wie die Party nach allen Partys, wie die letzte Tür im letzten Raum, die endlich ins Freie führt.
For me this is a total masterpiece. One that becomes the soundtrack of your life. It’s full of details, full of life, full of soul, amazing arrangements and deep singing.
I’m kind of addicted to this one right now. It scratches an itch for something I’ve been wanting to hear for a long time but wouldn’t have known how to name… I love it. I’ve been listening to this while walking around various cities on tour. There’s something broken-hearted but also uplifting in it.
