Lucrecia Dalt was born in Pereira, Colombia in 1980. She studied civil engineering and worked for two years in a geotechnical company in Medellin before deciding to pursue music.
Her first recordings were released by Columbian collective Series under the name Lucrecia. After meeting Gudrun Gut, she contributed four songs to the 4 Women No Cry compilation released on Monika Enterprise in 2008.
After moving to Europe she released a series of recordings, including a release on Nicolás Jaar's Other People imprint and a series of collaborations with Aaron Dilloway. Among her more recent releases are the albums Anticlines (2018) and No Era Sólida (2020) on RVNG Intl.
Like the whirr of a wake-up call, Lucrecia Dalt’s metallic compositions entice us to rethink the possibilities of materiality and existence. The Colombian musician and sound artist has carved out a place at the contemporary frontiers of avant-garde and electronic music, hardware in hand, to channel age-old questions into a distinct and transgressive musical language.
Perhaps the ability to dig a little deeper is hard-wired into Dalt’s creative process through her background as a geotechnical engineer. Now residing in Berlin, Dalt often seeks inspiration in the worlds of fiction, poetry, geology and desire, excavating nuanced references to untangle and respond to in her music. At times, this exploratory impulse surfaces like an introspective call and response experiment with her source material, forming new perspectives on ideas rooted in Colombian mythology to German New Wave cinema. Dalt’s conceptual blueprints are intimate and intricate, emerging like cyanotypes cast in the sun. Around these frameworks she shapes her sound, using analogue instrumentation, a vast array of synthesizers and the processed glow of her voice.
Dalt joined the RVNG family in 2018 with the release of Anticlines. Interspersed with enigmatic metaphors, the record channels at its core the principle of tectonic plates compressing stratified rock: old material is pushed to the centre and sometimes becomes exposed. Guided by this concern with boundaries and edges, Dalt reframes traditional Latin American rhythms beside visceral tones of electronic composition and fragmented spoken word, tracing new contours in the topography of human consciousness. The poetic lyrics of Anticlines were written collaboratively between Dalt and artist Henry Andersen, and the accompanying artwork was realised by visual artist and ongoing collaborator Regina de Miguel.
With the release of Dalt’s seventh album No era sólida (2020), another world is located in her universe. In an embrace of introspection, Dalt sets out to capture the moment when one becomes pure sound. This transcendent process of creation summons Lia: an apparition of the artist as possessed by mimetic impulses. Language is dissolved into an evocative collection of glossolalia as the record swells with rhythmic tremors and the lunar echoes of a lawless organism tethered to sonic hardware. Navigating through each song as a different state experienced by Lia, the album closes with spoken word reflections on the existence of an unworldly lifeform seeded through sound.
Her sound work has been presented internationally in spaces such as Issue Project Room, Pioneer Works in New York, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Museum of Modern Artin Medellín, the Mies van der Rohe pavilion in Barcelona, the New South Walles art gallery in Sydney, among others.
Extraña colección
Lucrecia Dalt Lyrics
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En mi memoria
A donde puede ir tanta información?
Qué se guarda?
Y ahora soy una extraña colección
De datos inconexos
Que los llevo conmigo a todos lados
Y eso que trato de memorizar
Una historia distinta cada día que pasa
Una historia que no me pasó a mi
O tal vez ya no se?
Soy cómo ella decida ser
No he escogido todo lo que está
En mi memoria
A donde puede ir tanta información?
Que se escapa
Mil historias que ya no se contar?
O tal vez que olvidé
Voy pronto a desaparecer
The lyrics of Lucrecia Dalt's song "Extraña colección" deal with the idea of memory, how it works, what it retains and why. The singer wonders about all the information she has stored in her mind and questions where it all goes. She describes herself as an "extraña colección" or a strange collection of disconnected data, which she carries with her wherever she goes. She hasn't chosen everything that's in her memory and tries to memorize a different story each day. However, she is unsure if those stories ever happened to her or if she is just making them up. The song also touches on the inevitability of forgetting, as the singer wonders if she is soon to disappear.
The song seems to be discussing our human tendencies when it comes to storing information. It is a common occurrence that we remember things or events that may not hold much importance or relevance to us, while we struggle to recall important things. Memories also tend to be subjective and can be altered over time, leading to confusion about what really happened. The song suggests that our memories may be a collection of data and stories that we have not consciously chosen or chosen to remember.
Line by Line Meaning
No he escogido todo lo que está
I haven't chosen everything that exists
En mi memoria
In my memory
A donde puede ir tanta información?
Where can so much information go?
Qué se guarda?
What is saved?
Y ahora soy una extraña colección
And now I am a strange collection
De datos inconexos
Of disconnected data
Que los llevo conmigo a todos lados
Which I carry with me everywhere
No he escogido nada
I haven't chosen anything
Y eso que trato de memorizar
And that's even though I try to memorize
Una historia distinta cada día que pasa
A different story every passing day
Una historia que no me pasó a mi
A story that didn't happen to me
O tal vez ya no se?
Or maybe I don't know anymore?
Soy cómo ella decida ser
I am what she decides to be
A donde puede ir tanta información?
Where can so much information go?
Que se escapa
What escapes
Mil historias que ya no se contar?
A thousand stories that I no longer know how to tell?
O tal vez que olvidé
Or maybe I forgot
Voy pronto a desaparecer
I'm about to disappear
Contributed by Lucy L. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Adosinda Bajo el Tejo
Que maravilla de colección. Disfrútala mucho 😉
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Janire Lopez Benitez
Sana envidia de tu colección 💗
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Maria Rodriguez
Muy chula, gracias por mostrarla