Photo by Camille Mandoki

Along with her own vast catalog of experimental detours, the multi-disciplined Lucrecia Dalt has added an impressive résumé of film and television scores to her body of work over the past few years. With music for the 2022 HBO series The Baby and the sci-fi film The Seed, the 2024 Cannes feature film winner On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and the forthcoming psychological horror film Rabbit Trap, the Colombian artist has sunk herself deep into the art of mood-driven storytelling. This all sets a scene even more provocative in the dark recesses she uncovers within the human heart on “cosa rara”, the first single and title track off Dalt’s forthcoming EP. It’s a sublimely supernatural trip conjured by a mystique of desert-weathered instrumentation and desiring carnal instincts. On one polar end is Dalt, tonguing in Spanish, while on the other is the coarse spoken word of the enigmatic British songwriter David Sylvian co-starring as her object of equal attraction in the insatiable pull between love and lust, in slow suspense with each toying in pleasure with the chase. Between them, chaos expands from the energy, but not in the kind that explodes. Rather, “cara mara” encapsulates the self-destructive beauty of falling for someone: the kind of love that can wreck your life in a slow cosmic dance with the Devil.

Lucrecia Dalt’s cosa rara will be released February 28th on RVNG Intl.