Lucrecia Dalt - Commotus

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Colombian singer and bassist Lucrecia Dalt debuted with Acerca (Series, 2005) and Congost (Pruna, 2009), then moved to Berlin and released the EP Lucrecia Dalt (Other People, 2014). Commotus (Human Ear Music, 2012), mostly instrumental, indulges in a gentle and ghostly hybrid of Angelo Badalamenti's gothic soundtracks, Portishead's trip-hop, Julia Holter's ambient folk, and some hard-to-pinpoint existential spleen. The manifestos of this art are the ghoulish lament of Saltacion over glitchy electronica and the ethereal trance Esplendor over finger snapping and anemic bass phrases. The beats are often the protagonists, but not because they incite dancing, rather because they enhance a wistful atmosphere: the wordless humming of Escopolamina is countered by a beat that sounds like a rainy mambo, and the beat of Multitud sounds like a slowly unwinding, rusty, archaic mechanical device. Some instrumentals are built around the simplest of melodies and just toy with it like a cat with a mouse: The funereal melody of Silencio is intoned by the synth, hijacked by a folk-ish harmonium (Julia Holter in person) and then repeated by the bass. The eight-minute Batholith is painstakingly-assembled electronic glitch-muzak. There are half-hearted attempts at regular songs, like Conversa (devastated by rampant electronic noise) Mohan, a whispered dirge with pow-wow rhythm and sinister guitar riffs. Dalt's music is lyrical and cerebral at the same time.

Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol8/dalt.html

Tracklist:


Saltación [0:00]
Escopolamina [3:24]
Turmoil [7:29]
Conversa [10:59]
Multitud [14:19]
Jet [16:35]
Esplendor [17:19]
Mohán [21:29]
Silencio [26:04]
Do I Dare Disturb Your Dreams [29:04]
Waste Of Shame [30:39]
Batholith [31:36]
Gudrun Gut - Saltación by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [39:57]
Ekkehard Ehlers - Conversa by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [48:35]
Jason Grier - Batholith by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [58:01]
papercutz - Escopolamina by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [1:00:09]
Woebot - Esplendor by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [1:05:07]
XHGC - Esplendor by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [1:08:11]
Los Amparito - Waste of Shame by Lucrecia Dalt (Remix) [1:12:25]

Genre: Indie, Female Vocal, Electronic
Disc-producing country: Germany
Year of Edition: 2012
Publisher (label): Human Ear Music
Country: Spain
Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip type: tracks
Audio bitrate: lossless, 24/44.1 kHz
Source (releaser): hemberlin.de