Before becoming a critically acclaimed experimental musician and indie-film composer, Lucrecia Dalt worked as a geotechnical engineer in her native Colombia. Strapping into a harness, she would drop 65 feet underground to inspect bedrock, one of the rare members of her team intrepid enough to do so. “Because of the water levels, it might be raining down there,” she told Pitchfork three years ago. “I loved that sensation.”

Born to a musical family in Pereira — her mother was a record collector, while her father toyed with ham radio — Dalt has long been dialed into the unusual frequencies of living. And though she has set down her engineering gear, she still finds a way to examine the world from unique posts. Her 2022 album, !Ay!, follows an alien entity named Preta that descends down t

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