Dramatic events in our lives very often have equally dramatic changes in our outlook on life, the way we live and work. For artist/musicians that can spark a more emotional approach to what they are creating, very often coming up with some of the best music they have done up to that moment.
That seems to have happened to Colombian artist Lucrecia Dalt, who has so far come up with some exceptional, hard-to-define music. Recently, Dalt had a near-death experience due to an intense epileptic seizure culminating in an 8-second heart stop. This dramatic event seems to have given an additional emotional edge to her new album A Danger to Ourselves, which is not solely reflected in the album title.
There’s an even further uplift in the quality of music that Dalt creates here, a sense of bared emotions, with the usual experimental element stressed further but all functional to the music Dalt wants to present and further stressed by the production touches David Sylvian (co-producer here) added to the music. Yet it is Dalt’s creativity and inventiveness that are to the fore here, with the emotional element leading the way.
“In the past, I often turned to movies and texts as mirrors to shape my stories, guiding me away from revealing too much from within, inventing isolated fictions…This time, I wanted to create music that flows cinematically and sets a landscape to tell a love story that flirts with improbability, the miraculous and the mysterious”, explains Dalt, who has come up with one of her best offerings so far.
