Bogotá-born, Brooklyn-based producer and musician Nico Losada makes lush, ethereal soundscapes that meld Latin American rhythms, dance music, and ambient dreamscapes. As Salt Cathedral, he and Juliana Ronderos have been making joyful, tropical dance pop tracks without boundaries since 2011. In 2020, they released their uplifting debut album, CARISMA, followed by an "isolation mix" reimagining of it. Nico self-released his bubbling 25-minute ambient track "Decomposition" in 2020, as "a gift for anybody that feels down". Nico's lush and dreamy debut solo album, Nueva Generación, due March 2023 on Ultra Records, was born from a desire to combine ambient and Colombian music. It features cumbia, Afro-Colombian bullerengue, samples of gaita flutes, and house rhythms, all at a chilled tempo. He made the album as a sonic experiment over a creative two-week period in 2019, not intending to release it. He hopes young listeners come across it and discover something new, and that others feel something they haven't in a long time, perhaps, a sense of innocence—like the space he was in while creating it. -By Ana Monroy Yglesias, Sept. 2022