Today Daniela Lalita has released her debut EP Trececerotres, out now via Young. Alongside the EP’s release, Lalita has premiered a new music video for the project’s closing track ‘Pisoteo’. Directed by Daniela Lalita, with choreography by Lourdes Leon, the video sees Lalita in an empty room, wrestling with the primal chanting and high-energy stomps of passionate marching in the song. This latest video is an impressive addition to the previously released videos for EP tracks ‘Tenía Razón’ and ‘No Para’. This trilogy of videos introduces fans to the multiple worlds that exist on Lalita’s stunning debut – Trececerotres – out today.
Every song on Trececerotres feels like a different mode of ancestral channeling. The Peruvian creative – whose practice spans music, costume design, film, performance and fine art – stretches her voice into raw guttural depths, reaching brutally emotional heights throughout the record to startling effect. A testament to a childhood talent of learning to do different voices for TV commercials as her first job, Lalita’s vocal distortions mesh together with drums, gnashing electronica and esoteric glossolalia to craft a sound both modern and mystical. Working with the buchla synth Lalita found a world without limitations of traditional scales, the instrument provided boundless experimentation for the artist whose practice of recording and layering vocals were implemented in the production of Trececerotres to craft a multiplicity of sonic worlds.
In the fall of 2017, Daniela Lalita debuted a performance art piece titled Madre: A Disruptive Environment. Critically-acclaimed by Dazed, Office Magazine, I-D and Tunica Studio, the performance was a prominent display of the intersection of Lalita’s artistry, featuring nine figures draped in elaborate costumes and elaborate prosthetics each representative of the Jungian archetypes of the mother. While visual art, sculpture and couture were the mediums of art in which Lalita first presented her vision to the world, Madre provided the introductory environment for Lalita’s musical sound to take shape; the sound we hear on her debut EP.
Alongside the Trececerotres release Lalita has launched her website: danielalalita.com. On loop is Lalita in a small crowded room surrounded by her most intimate belongings. Locked there over the course of several hours the video is a performance piece that sees Lalita reenacting the type of isolation she previously explored for the making of her EP, as a means to evoke multidimensional mental states; a multiplicity that comes to life via her multi-hyphenate work. Highly inspired by alternate reality games and with the intention of creating a space of profound, almost invasive intimacy, in this three hour performance you witness her hands-on process, which will soon materialize into a line of garments constructed entirely out of the materials used in the video for “Tenía Razón.”
Stream / Download Trececerotres here: https://danielalalita.
Daniela Lalita – Trececerotres
1. Trececerotres
2. Tenía Razón
3. Atrás
4. No Para
5. Pisoteo
