Cynthia Dall

Cynthia Dall (Born Cynthia Loya in Sacramento, California, sometimes known as "Cindy Dall") born 12 march 1971 is a musician who has recorded two albums: an untitled release on Drag City (US) / Domino (UK) in 1996 and "Sound Restores Young Men" (under the name Cynthia Dall) on Drag City in 2002. She has also collaborated with Bill Callahan's on several Smog recordings and in live performances. In 1998 she did the vocals for a remix of "Torture Day" by The Notwist .

Cynthia Dall is also a photographer. Her murder-glam aesthetic places her work firmly in the canon of other transgressive visual artists like Richard Kern and Nick Zedd.

Her self-portraits were featured frequently in Lisa Crystal Carver's Rollerderby.

Though the album cover bears no name or title, this collection of songs is actually the work of Cynthia Dall, best known for her collaboration with label mate Smog. Smog's Bill Callahan appears on Untitled, contributing guitar and vocals; however, aside from similarly stripped-down production values, that's the only similarity between Smog's music and Dall's solo work. If possible, Untitled is even more implosive and desolately beautiful than her work with Smog on songs like "Christmas (California)" and "Lion Becomes Dragon." She's able to turn a question like "What are you getting me for Christmas?" into a frosty, thinly veiled threat. The echoing pianos that make up Untitled's musical motif sound as if Dall were in a very faraway place that's both nightmarish and dreamy. That's not to say that Untitled is a completely bleak album; on tracks such as the Callahan/Dall duet "Holland" and the wistful ballad "Bright Night," the album achieves a remote, luminous beauty, and on "Aaron Matthew," it grows downright warm and genuine. Brittle, disturbing, and magnetic, Untitled shows that Dall has plenty to say on her own terms. A frighteningly lovely album. She died on 5 april 2012

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