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.
Veta
Lucrecia Dalt Lyrics
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Es como si la realidad
Estuviera torcida o quizás
Alguien como ud
Ud, ¿quién si no?
Lentamente la hubiera ladeado
O quizas peor
Conscientemente la hubiera torcido así no mas
Si ha notado cómo voy deslizándome lentamente
Hay un borde aquí, ¿o?
The lyrics to Lucrecia Dalt's song "Veta" delve into the concept of reality and perception. It begins with the statement "something very subtle has happened" indicating that the singer has recognized a shift in their perception of reality. They go on to speculate that perhaps reality itself has become twisted, or that someone - presumably the person being addressed - has intentionally distorted it. The use of the word "usted" (you) implies that the singer is directly addressing someone they know, possibly accusing them of being responsible for the distortion.
As the song progresses, the singer describes their experience of slowly sliding towards a precipice, potentially a metaphor for a loss of control or understanding in the face of the distorted reality they are perceiving. The line "there's an edge here, right?" further emphasizes the idea of danger and instability. Overall, the lyrics of "Veta" are a contemplation of how our perceptions shape our understanding of the world, and how easily they can be manipulated or disrupted.
Line by Line Meaning
Algo muy sutil ha pasado
Something very subtle has happened
Es como si la realidad
It's as if reality
Estuviera torcida o quizás
Were twisted, or perhaps
Alguien como ud
Someone like you
Ud, ¿quién si no?
You, who else?
Lentamente la hubiera ladeado
Slowly tilted it
O quizas peor
Or perhaps worse
Conscientemente la hubiera torcido así no mas
Consciously twisted it just like that
Ay dígame, ¡dígame!
Oh tell me, tell me!
Si ha notado cómo voy deslizándome lentamente
If you've noticed how I'm slowly slipping
Hay un borde aquí, ¿o?
There's an edge here, right?
Writer(s): Maria Lucrecia Perez Lopez
Contributed by Austin W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
jonny d680
Oh Lucrecia... Where are you going? This is amazing... I have one of your CDs - you are a proper tune-smith!
CapsLock
amazing sound
H. B.
Wooooooowwww.......