Principio del Fuego is the debut studio EP from Fuensanta, released at the tail end of June through GroundUp Music. Hailing from Veracruz, Mexico, and now based in Amsterdam, she is a brilliant singer, double bassist, composer, improviser and multidisciplinary artist who has collaborated with some incredible artists including Louis Cole, Han Bennink, Ben van Gelder, Genevieve Artadi, Reinier Baas, Aaron Parks, Sun Mi Hong, Tineke Postma, Ben Wendel, Kit Downes, Sanem Kalfa, Teis Semey, Joris Roelofs, Nawras Altaky and Magalí Datzira. Speaking about her Principio del Fuego EP, Fuensanta says:

“I thought this is what the EP could be called, “Principio del Fuego”, which translates to ‘beginning of the fire’ but also ‘principle of fire’. Because to me this is a collection of studio versions of some of my first songs and they feel like a small capsule of my early visions of the world and music since I found my own way of writing.

The topics somehow revolve around the transition from childhood to adulthood, and I feel that these songs are very charged with the universe and symbols of my upbringing in the forest in Mexico, from the perspective of my first years in the Netherlands.

In a way, the whole thing feels somewhat like a short love letter to the magic realism of my childhood and that place, these compositions I played so much and what they meant to me during the last years, and the closure of an era.”

For an intriguing and beguiling taster of what’s on offer, here’s the video for one of the EP´s tracks, ‘No Será Regresar’.