Biography
Residing in Berlin, the Colombian musician Lucrecia Dalt produces experimental electronic pop shaped by philosophy, cinema, mythology, and futuristic technology. Earlier releases such as the 2009 album Congost, issued under the name Sound of Lucrecia, emphasized lyrics and conventional song forms, whereas later projects including the 2018 album Anticlines and the 2020 collaboration Lucy & Aaron with tape manipulation artist Aaron Dilloway turned markedly more abstract and surreal, letting her sparse vocals dissolve into alien soundscapes. With the 2022 release ¡Ay!, she fused bolero and tropical rhythms together with science fiction.
Dalt trained in geology and worked briefly as a civil engineer before committing to music. Her debut, the ambient synth pop album Acerca credited solely to her first name, came out in 2005 on the Colombian collective Series. That was succeeded by the 2007 EP Like Being Home. Finding Colombia’s music environment too restrictive, she relocated to Barcelona, where opportunities for artistic growth proved far more accessible. After encountering Gudrun Gut, founder of Monika Enterprise, Sound of Lucrecia supplied four tracks to 4 Women No Cry, Vol. 3 alongside Julia Holter, Liz Christine, and Manekinekod. Congost followed in 2009 and later received a reissue under Dalt’s complete name.
In 2011 she issued the digital EP Cuatro Covers, created with F.S. Blumm. Human Ear Music released her third album, the dark and dreamy Commotus, in 2012, after which the even more unusual Syzygy appeared in 2013. A self-titled EP came out on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People imprint in 2014. By 2015 she had settled in Berlin, and Care of Editions issued the limited LP Ou toward year’s end. That same period saw her contribution to These Hidden Hands’ 2016 12-inch These Moments Dismantled. RVNG Intl. released her sixth album, the volume of poetic theory and sound titled Anticlines, in 2018. After an artist residency in Guachalito, she and Aaron Dilloway issued Field Recordings in the Forest of Columbia in March 2020. The solo studio album No era sólida, partly tracked at Ina GRM in Paris and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, followed in September.
The subsequent year brought another joint effort, Lucy & Aaron, issued on Dilloway’s Hanson Records imprint in July 2021; it paired his abstract tape loops with Dalt’s immersive atmospheric approach. Two original scores she composed, The Seed and The Baby, appeared on Invada in 2022. Her following studio album, ¡Ay!, offered abstract exotica sung in Spanish and was issued by RVNG Intl.
Dalt trained in geology and worked briefly as a civil engineer before committing to music. Her debut, the ambient synth pop album Acerca credited solely to her first name, came out in 2005 on the Colombian collective Series. That was succeeded by the 2007 EP Like Being Home. Finding Colombia’s music environment too restrictive, she relocated to Barcelona, where opportunities for artistic growth proved far more accessible. After encountering Gudrun Gut, founder of Monika Enterprise, Sound of Lucrecia supplied four tracks to 4 Women No Cry, Vol. 3 alongside Julia Holter, Liz Christine, and Manekinekod. Congost followed in 2009 and later received a reissue under Dalt’s complete name.
In 2011 she issued the digital EP Cuatro Covers, created with F.S. Blumm. Human Ear Music released her third album, the dark and dreamy Commotus, in 2012, after which the even more unusual Syzygy appeared in 2013. A self-titled EP came out on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People imprint in 2014. By 2015 she had settled in Berlin, and Care of Editions issued the limited LP Ou toward year’s end. That same period saw her contribution to These Hidden Hands’ 2016 12-inch These Moments Dismantled. RVNG Intl. released her sixth album, the volume of poetic theory and sound titled Anticlines, in 2018. After an artist residency in Guachalito, she and Aaron Dilloway issued Field Recordings in the Forest of Columbia in March 2020. The solo studio album No era sólida, partly tracked at Ina GRM in Paris and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, followed in September.
The subsequent year brought another joint effort, Lucy & Aaron, issued on Dilloway’s Hanson Records imprint in July 2021; it paired his abstract tape loops with Dalt’s immersive atmospheric approach. Two original scores she composed, The Seed and The Baby, appeared on Invada in 2022. Her following studio album, ¡Ay!, offered abstract exotica sung in Spanish and was issued by RVNG Intl.
Albums
A Danger to Ourselves
2025
Rabbit Trap (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2025
cosa rara
2025
¡Ay!
2022
The Baby (Original Score)
2022
No era sólida (outtakes)
2021
No era sólida
2020
Anticlines Outtakes
2020
Anticlines
2018
Lucrecia Dalt
2014
Singles
