The Woman Who Fell to Earth
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| © João Vilares |
words & photos: João Vilares; editing: Raquel Pinheiro
More than two years since her last performance in Braga, Lucrecia Dalt landed again in gnration for the beginning of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the venue. In her suitcase the Colombian artist brought us ¡Ay!, her last album in which she makes an unlikely mix of classic South American genres with electronic experimentalism.
¡Ay! is the story of an extra-terrestrial entity, Preta, that arrives on our planet and challenges the conceptions of temporality, embodiment and the discovery of love, clearly inspired by Nicolas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976).
Accompanied by percussionist Alex Lazaro who Lucrecia describes as "an alien salsero who plays percussion like nobody's business,". The Berlin-based artist teleported us into a sci-fi universe where the sensuality of salsa, bolero or other genres acquire different textures mixed with the distortion and apparent dissonance of Dalt's experimental mastery.
Lucrecia Dalt confessed that this is her favorite concert hall. Even if not totally true, gnration is certainly a place that consistently provides a quality programming of experimental music projects such as the present concert. It was her second time here and by the reaction of the audience no one left the room disappointed.
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