The long-standing Texas based label, Elevator Bath, returns on the back of a series of stellar releases over the last couple of years with "Soplo”, the debut solo album from Berlin-based Mexican multimedia artist, sound designer, and musician Daniela Huerta. A stunning gesture of electroacoustic ambience, rooted in myth and story telling that traverses a remarkable emotive range, its hanging tones, percolating field recordings, shimmering synths, musique concrète treatments, and occasional vocalisations - exploring the origins of consciousness, archetypes, ritual, and collective memory - have captivated us from their first sounding to their last.

Founded in 1998 by the artist Colin Andrew Sheffield, for nearly two and a half decades the Austin based imprint, Elevator Bath, has carefully sculpted a discrete context of wonderful outliers within the field of experimental music, producing releases by Michèle Bokanowski, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Keith Berry, Andrew Deutsch & Tony Conrad, and numerous others, that veer toward the highly abstract and elegantly atmospheric. Earlier this year, the label left the United States behind, diving south of the border with the debut LP of the Mexico based composer and multidisciplinary artist Concepción Huerta. Carrying on their explorations of work by artists from that incredible country and its rich scenes of sonic creativity, they now return with "Soplo”, the debut solo album from Berlin-based Mexican multimedia artist, sound designer, and musician Daniela Huerta.

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Daniela Huerta studied at Central Saint Martins School in London, before relocating to Berlin where she currently resides. A multimedia and multidisciplinary artist who has worked across a number of distinct fields over the course of her career, notably as a DJ under the moniker Baby Vulture, cultivating her own multi-layered and eclectic approach to the form, as well as collaborations and interdisciplinary projects with Soundwalk Collective, Vincent Moon, Ash Fure, Ale Hop, Lucrecia Dalt, Hexorcismos, Concepción Huerta, Prima Materia, and the Colombian film artist Iván Argote. "Soplo”, issued by Elevator Bath, is her first full-length solo release.

Huerta’s work is rooted at the blurred boundary between the real and imagined, deploying mythology and modes of story telling to offer insights into the dimensions of the human psyche. The origins of "Soplo” (Spanish for 'breath') began with an invitation to score two politically charged short films by Iván Argote. Drawing on that material, Huerta began to weave together the two respective soundtracks - drawn from field recordings, deconstructed rhythms, and live sampling - into eight distinct pieces that flow cohesively across the album’s two sides that emphasize her own idiosyncratic methods.

While there is no explicit statement of narrative or myth, "Soplo" feels endlessly drawn from the wellspring of both, drawing up subtle flirtations with something ancient and pregnant with meaning. Effectively an ambient electroacoustic work that immerses the kinds of ritualism explored during the 1980s by fellow Mexican artists like Luis Pérez, Jorge Reyes, Antonio Zepeda, Carlos Alvarado, and Tribu in blankets of ethereal, drifting sonority, "Soplo" sustains a remarkable air of mystery and discovery throughout, traversing the cosmic and otherworldly without ever departing from the natural world.

Dreamlike and immersive, and as gentle as it is pointed - pulsing, drifting, inviting and at times gloomy and confrontational - "Soplo” is nothing short of a killer vinyl debut by Daniela Huerta, leaving us wanting more and wondering what will come next. As they recently did with Concepción Huerta, Elevator Bath’s newly expanded gaze is bringing up gold.