Incoherent hushed vocals, tape hiss, and high-pitched feedback? I’ll leave it up to you to decide if “Esotro” by Lucrecia Dalt is music or nonsensical audio collage.
Around the two-minute mark the song does coagulate into a lo-fi spaghetti western riff on the Pong theme but remains unnervingly avant-garde in its approach to “normal” song structure. This signature jerky minimalism is attributed to the native Columbian’s travels across Spain and Germany, attempting to isolate certain moments in time and weave them into her personal musical tapestry.
Dalt’s new EP, entitled “EP,” explores similar non-musical tones, patterns, and prototypes. A surprisingly inventive product that places more emphasis on atmosphere than melody or arrangement. The haunting vocals and bass driven minimalism of her tunes seem to be the one linchpin holding it all together—an approach that lends some palpable weight to the enveloping clouds of white noise.
