Lucrecia Dalt (born 1980)
Lucrecia Dalt was born in Pereira, Colombia. Prior to her music career, she studied civil engineering and worked in the field of geotechnics. She currently lives in Berlin.
I first became aware of Lucrecia Dalt through her music for the 2022 HBO comedy-horror series The Baby. Since 2005, she has released seven solo albums of her music (with an 8th coming in October), which has evolved from rather tame dance and pop music to more challenging and experimental electro-acoustic compositions. A profile on the website of her booking agency states:
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.
This is a music video for “Tar” from her 2018 album Anticlines: