2017 was a huge year for Florence Donovan, better known as Dos Floris, as it saw the release of her debut solo album, The Widowed Earth. The record was the result of a lifelong desire to be a full-time musician put on hold by the grinds of a nine-to-five job, alongside battles with teenage anorexia and panic attacks. The album was written, recorded and produced “Harry Potter style” beneath the stairs at her home. The product of her unorthodox approach is an emotional genre defying cinematic soundscape of an album that caught the attention of Tom Robinson’s Fresh on the Net, Huffington Post, community radio stations and other underground alternative music blogs. In November 2017 & April 2018 Dos Floris played her first headline UK tour playing 150-200 capacity venues in London, Brighton, Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham & Manchester. The tour earned her a “one to watch for 2018” accolade and excellent live reviews where she is described as a “one- woman powerhouse” who uses her “excellent elastic voice”, loops, layers and textures to create “haunting sounds” that leave her audience “riveted” [Rock’n’Reel Magazine January 2018 & Cambridge Reviews].The video to the single “Silence” was released in January 2018 with a premier on For The Rabbits.Net and was subsequently picked up by music outlets worldwide all calling the video “hypnotic, refreshing and different” and Dos Floris’ electronic and acoustic fusion as “nothing short of revolutionary”. Having earned comparisons to artistic and boundary pushing artists such as Bjork, Kate Bush, Zola Jesus, Sigur Ros and Radiohead and with more live dates to be announced for the Autumn it looks as if 2018 will be a good year to be Dos Floris.
