Human Ear Music Announces Lucrecia Dalt’s “Syzygy”

13 Aug 2013 — Henning Lahmann

Only a bit more than a year after 2012's enchanting Commotus, Berlin via Los Angeles imprint Human Ear Music has announced the upcoming release of Lucrecia Dalt's next full-length Syzygy. While the intricate and sophisticated Commotus kept us abuzz for a large part of last year, the Colombian native and recent Berlin transplant's third album undoubtedly marks another major step forward in the young artist's career. Inspired both by the theorists Walter Benjamin and Italo Calvino, and by the oeuvre of filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman or Michelangelo Antonioni, Syzygy is as meditative as it is engaging and challenging. The nine tracks rarely ever stray away from a certain mood of wistfulness, but within their quiet, withdrawn and frail textures, moments of unexpected and unassuming structural complexity surface, with little, carefully inwrought details gradually emerging from the arrangements that make repeated, meticulous, and most of all patient listening not only rewarding but virtually required. Syzygy feels deeply personal, like the work of an artist who has only recently discovered the true power of her own musical language as a means to reveal her essential state of being.

Syzygy is out October 15. Watch the official teaser video below.

Photo of Lucrecia by our very own Tonje Thilesen.