{"id":32371,"date":"2018-01-15T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=32371"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:40:05","slug":"dos-floris-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/01\/dos-floris-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dos Floris – ‘Silence’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a while<\/strong><\/a> since we’ve caught up with Dos Floris, a multi-instrumentalist with a revolutionary fusion of electronic and acoustic music. Dos Floris’ latest single, ‘Silence’, is from her self-released debut album, ‘The Widowed Earth’, and has a video which embraces the themes of relinquishing the past, and embarking on a radical journey, with no looking back.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Florence Donovan made a life-changing move from the security of the 9 to 5, where on drunken nights out she would moan to anyone who would listen that all she ever wanted to do was work in music. Finally she took the plunge, and after bouncing between bands and genres with moderate success, she decided to become a solo artist. Her method was unconventional, but no less inspirational, and in what she describes as “Harry Potter Style”, she spent two years under the staircase at home writing, producing, and recording what would become ‘The Widowed Earth’. The result is an entrancing, and genre-defying cinematic soundscape, which Huffington Post describes as,<\/p>\n

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\u201c[her] pieces are as much sound sculptures as they are songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n