Jazzclub : Lucrecia Dalt

Born in Pereira, Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt has since established herself as a prominent figure in the world of contemporary experimental music. Her professional journey—from civil engineer to sound artist—began while she was working at a geotechnical engineering firm in Medellín, where she discovered computer-assisted music production.

On RVNG Intl., Dalt released a trilogy—*Anticlines* (2018), *No era sólida* (2020), and *¡Ay!* (2022)—each of which expanded her sonic palette and conceptual depth. “¡Ay!” was particularly well-received by critics and listeners, earning the title of “Album of the Year” from The Wire magazine and landing in the top ten of the year-end charts for Pitchfork, The New York Times, and NPR’s year-end list. During this time, Dalt also began composing film scores for television productions. She also contributed the soundtrack for the HBO series “The Baby” (2022) and, more recently, for the critically acclaimed film “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (2024), embedding her distinctive sound design within narrative contexts.

Now Dalt returns with “A Danger to Ourselves,” her most personal and sonically ambitious work to date. While her earlier albums explore character-driven narratives and entanglements with the outside world, “A Danger to Ourselves” turns decisively inward. The album emerged from fragmentary notes that Dalt had jotted down during tours and in the early stages of a new relationship—intimate thoughts translated into musical compositions.

In close collaboration with percussionist Alex Lázaro, Dalt created pieces that derive their musicality more from the interplay of basslines, beats, and textural details than from conventional melodic structures. Songs like “divina” flow seamlessly between Spanish and English, interwoven with elastic soundscapes and hypnotic sound collages, while “hasta el final” takes a different approach with its more direct string arrangements. Throughout the album, Dalt moves beyond her earlier lo-fi approaches and strives for a new clarity in which both the vocals and the instrumentation come to the fore with greater presence and detail.

A collaboration between Jazzclub and UT Connewitz.