{"title":"Lucrecia Dalt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaría Lucrecia Pérez López, better known by her stage name \u003ci\u003eLucrecia Dalt\u003c\/i\u003e, is a Colombian sound artist born in Pereira, Colombia in 1980. Currently living and working in Berlin, Lucrecia has been captivating audiences with her unique blend of experimental music and sonic landscapes. With a career spanning over a decade, she has gained recognition for her thought-provoking compositions and mesmerizing performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore 2010, Lucrecia was known simply as Lucrecia. However, she rebranded herself as Lucrecia Dalt to further establish her artistic identity. Her evolution as an artist can be seen through the exploration of various genres such as ambient, electronic, and avant-garde music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by artists like Sarah Davachi, Christina Vantzou, and Valentina Magaletti among others; Lucrecia's music pushes boundaries and challenges traditional notions of sound. Her compositions are characterized by intricate layering of textures and haunting melodies that transport listeners into otherworldly realms.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ay","title":"Ay!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eLucrecia Dalt channels innate sensory echoes of growing up in Colombia on her new album\u003ci\u003e ¡Ay!\u003c\/i\u003e, where traditional instrumentation encounters adventurous impulse and sci-fi meditations on atemporality in an exclamation of liminal delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDalt’s introspective approach to composition, last surfaced on her entrancing 2020 album \u003ci\u003eNo era Sólida\u003c\/i\u003e, refracts across\u003ci\u003e ¡Ay!\u003c\/i\u003e in a subconscious spectrum of the music genres she absorbed as a child. Treasured sounds and syncopations of bolero, mambo, salsa, and merengue rooted in Dalt’s early surroundings awaken on \u003ci\u003e¡Ay!\u003c\/i\u003e and give glow to the album’s contours. The intuitive melodic structures of this music, processed by memory and modular synths, led Dalt to a mirage of her creative origins and the album she has always wanted to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e¡Ay! \u003c\/i\u003eis a tincture of rich acoustic textures filtered through the warmth of Dalt’s signature machinic distortion, diffused of easily-defined edges as previously explored on No era sólida and her 2018 album \u003ci\u003eAnticlines\u003c\/i\u003e. Here, vivid incantations of upright bass, wind ensembles and brass form shimmers of harmonic motif, distilled across radiant rhythms. Dalt worked closely with friend and collaborator Alex Lázaro to cultivate new shapes and colors for slowed down tumbaos and bolero percussion patterns. Together they deconstructed the traditional drum kit into serpentine expansions of congas, bongos, temple blocks and timbales, all of which they tuned to dance among Lucrecia’s lucid vocal processions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this hallucinatory crossing of time and space, Dalt projects a sci-fi mythology rendered through theoretical exchanges with philosopher Miguel Prado. Their mutual interest in consciousness and atemporality summoned the tale of a metaphysical odyssey, cast by Dalt through silken lyrics in her native Spanish tongue. The lush musical world of\u003ci\u003e ¡Ay! \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a soft but obscure landing for an alien entity called Preta, who has gathered a body in the hydrosphere from evaporated dead skin. We follow her first experiences of containment and composure as she navigates our geology and earthly markers of love and time, in contrast with her state as a timeless entity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Dalt’s soaring vocals, the intimate monologues of this ethereal being oscillate with the album’s vibrant instrumental arrangements. \u003ci\u003e¡Ay!\u003c\/i\u003e stages a rare encounter between tropical rhythms and sci-fi storytelling, where Dalt devises her amorphous character to explore love without the expected cliches of romantic genres. Dalt brings lightness and humor to the arc of this melodramatic tale, once again shedding the restraints of convention to break boundaries into abstract, fragmentary relics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e¡Ay! \u003c\/i\u003eis an interjection through which Dalt enters a new dimension in her work – one which connects her legacy of electronic revelations with the moment she reaches a panoramic view of her musical source. In sound and spirit, ¡Ay! is a heliacal exploration of native place and environmental tuning, where Dalt reverses the spell of temporal containment. Through the spiraling tendencies of time and topography, Dalt has arrived where she began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng Intl","offers":[{"title":"LP - Red","offer_id":50424953307467,"sku":"1158850","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50424952127819,"sku":"1158846","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50424952652107,"sku":"1158849","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5d968b01-c67a-4280-9667-d1d67826046d_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726784767"},{"product_id":"the-seed-original-score","title":"The Seed (Original Score)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucrecia Dalt's debut film score to \u003ci\u003eThe Seed\u003c\/i\u003e, a sci-fi horror film directed by Sam Walker on Shudder. Pressed on black vinyl and housed in a deluxe spined sleeve with printed insert and download card included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The score is heavily based on pulses that I made from tape loops from my Copicat tape delay, using various pieces of metal to create the sound of the horror parts by bowing them alongside digital synths and the Korg Monologue.” - Lucrecia Dalt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I wanted to play with the feeling of multiple paces in it, a voice pulse that keeps us grounded in the subjectivities of the women who are losing their sanity, a synth line that places us in the sci-fi side of the film,” she explains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Seed’s release follows the Colombian artist’s collaboration with Aaron Dilloway, Lucy and Aaron, her acclaimed 2020 album No era sólida (RVNG Intl), a site specific performance for the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, plus sound installations for CTM Festival and Medellín’s Museum of Modern Art. Often seeking inspiration in the worlds of fiction, poetry, geology and desire, excavating nuanced references to untangle and respond to in her music, Dalt’s debut score is incredible stand-alone piece of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Seed\u003c\/i\u003e lifelong friends Deidre (Lucy Martin \/ Vikings), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur \/ Resident Evil: Apocalypse) and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge \/ I Hate Suzie) travel to the Mojave Desert for some time away with the upcoming meteor shower as the perfect social media backdrop. But what starts out as a girls’ getaway descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an invasive alien force whose air of mystery soon proves to be alluring and irresistible to them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invada","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50458563707211,"sku":"1151371","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5893ae23-b568-4b8b-95fd-17f30eb35aa0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727211891"},{"product_id":"cosa-rara","title":"Cosa Rara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eA prolific and limitless musician, performer, composer, and sound artist, Lucrecia Dalt challenges both genre and form, pulling apart familiar elements of pop and experimental music and reassembling them in unexpected ways. Breaking through to a wider audience with her acclaimed 2022 album \u003cem\u003e¡Ay!,\u003c\/em\u003e Dalt has also made a name as a composer for film and TV, including her original, acclaimed score for HBO’s series The Baby and Cannes 2024 feature film winner On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eWith “cosa rara,” her new single featuring mixing, production, and a rare appearance by cult music legend David Sylvian, the subject of one’s self becomes an unlikely infatuation. 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Dalt followed this creative impulse, becoming fascinated with computer-based production and leaving a burgeoning career as a civil engineer, moving from Medellín to Barcelona and ultimately Berlin, where she developed her distinctive, adventurous sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer work has spun into increasingly accomplished terrains with \u003cem\u003eAnticlines\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and \u003cem\u003eNo era sólida\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and notably, \u003cem\u003e¡Ay!\u003c\/em\u003e, Dalt’s 2022 breakthrough sci-fi bolero album. Along the way, Dalt expanded her practice into scoring for films like \u003cem\u003eOn Becoming a Guinea Fowl\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), HBO series \u003cem\u003eThe Baby\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), and the forthcoming psychological horror \u003cem\u003eRabbit Trap\u003c\/em\u003e, while creating sound installations and performances that showcase her luminous modulations and distinctive, evolving vocal approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Danger to Ourselves\u003c\/em\u003e emerged from fragmentary declarations Dalt scribbled while navigating life on tour for \u003cem\u003e¡Ay!\u003c\/em\u003e, and the formative moments of a new relationship. She began crystallising these intimate fragments into musical compositions in January 2024, giving gradual form to a purposeful constellation of songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s sonic architecture builds upon dynamic drum loops provided by collaborator Alex Lázaro, whose percussive backbone, as on \u003cem\u003e¡Ay!\u003c\/em\u003e, became a canvas for Dalt’s layered vocals. Rather than following conventional melodic structures, the album generates musicality through the interplay of basslines, rhythms, and compositional design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Danger to Ourselves\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Dalt’s uncompromising quest for sonic clarity, where bold production choices and meticulous recording techniques encourage both voice and instrument to harmonise with newfound depth and radiance. 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